{"id":628442,"date":"2026-04-24T19:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628442\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T19:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:00:39","slug":"stars-return-for-anzac-appeal-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628442\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars return for Anzac Appeal Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                North Melbourne has made two changes for Sunday afternoon&#8217;s Anzac Appeal Round clash with Greater Western Sydney in Canberra\n            <\/p>\n<p>Star Kangaroos Tristan Xerri and Finn O&#8217;Sullivan will return for Sunday afternoon&#8217;s Anzac Appeal Round clash with Greater Western Sydney in Canberra.<\/p>\n<p>Experienced ruck Xerri returns to North Melbourne&#8217;s line-up after serving a three-match suspension for serious misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Sullivan returns having missed two matches since fracturing his jaw in the Good Friday SuperClash against Carlton.<\/p>\n<p>Tall Callum Coleman-Jones has been rested this week, while defender Tom Blamires has been omitted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kangaroo forward Cam Zurhaar has been named in the forward pocket as he prepares to run out for his 150th AFL appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Toby Pink, Blamires and Konstanty are North Melbourne&#8217;s three emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>The Kangaroos will wear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmfc.com.au\/news\/2001060\/introducing-our-2026-anzac-guernsey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their first ever Anzac guernsey<\/a> in the match at Corroboree Group Oval Manuka, which starts at 4.40pm AEST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Melbourne has made two changes for Sunday afternoon&#8217;s Anzac Appeal Round clash with Greater Western Sydney in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-628442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628442","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=628442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}