{"id":598333,"date":"2026-04-10T17:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598333\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:49:12","slug":"afl-team-selection-cats-locked-in-for-gather-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598333\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Team Selection | Cats Locked In for Gather Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Latest News\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The Cats have finalised their team for Sunday&#8217;s clash with the Eagles at Norwood Oval\n            <\/p>\n<p>The Cats have confirmed their team for Sunday&#8217;s Gather Round clash, making three changes as they prepare to take on West Coast at Norwood Oval.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In exciting news, premiership Cat Jake Kolodjashnij will make his long-awaited return to Geelong&#8217;s AFL team, set to play his first game at the elite level since the 2024 Preliminary Final.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mark O&#8217;Connor will also return to take on the Eagles after being managed last week, while James Worpel has earned a recall after a pair of strong performances in the VFL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As confirmed on Thursday night, Mark Blicavs will be managed and will not line-up for the Cats on Sunday afternoon, while Geelong will also manage Jack Martin and Jack Henry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The match will also see two milestones reached, with James Worpel set to play his 150th game and Shannon Neale his 50th.<\/p>\n<p>Geelong will take on the West Coast Eagles on Sunday afternoon as part of the AFL&#8217;s Gather Round, heading to Norwood Oval for the first time in the club&#8217;s V\/AFL history with the game set to commence at 12.30pm AEST.<\/p>\n<p>A reminder that there are plenty of exciting activations involving Geelong for fans heading to Adelaide, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geelongcats.com.au\/news\/1991876\/whats-on-at-gather-round\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to find out more information on where you can see the Cats amongst the Gather Round festivities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The match will be broadcast on Fox Footy and streamed through Kayo from 12.30pm AEST, or listen to all the action on K rock from 11.00am.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest News The Cats have finalised their team for Sunday&#8217;s clash with the Eagles at Norwood Oval The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-598333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}