{"id":63037,"date":"2025-08-12T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63037\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T17:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:15:13","slug":"lester-available-starcevich-a-test-to-go-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63037\/","title":{"rendered":"Lester available, Starcevich a test to go west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The Brisbane Lions could welcome back two experienced defenders for their trip to Perth for Friday night\u2019s clash with Fremantle at Optus Stadium.\n            <\/p>\n<p>The Brisbane Lions could welcome back two experienced defenders for their trip to Perth for Friday night\u2019s clash with Fremantle at Optus Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/125\/ryan-lester\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Lester<\/a> is out of concussion protocols and following training on Tuesday was confirmed as available for selection to face the Dockers.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/1609\/brandon-starcevich\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Starcevich<\/a>, who missed last week with hamstring awareness, is a test to travel West.<\/p>\n<p>The Club is happy with the progress of Co-Captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/354\/lachie-neale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lachie Neale<\/a> (quad), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/5146\/kai-lohmann\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kai Lohmann<\/a> (calf) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/982\/conor-mckenna\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conor McKenna<\/a> (hamstring) who are expected back within the next fortnight.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                Knee<\/p>\n<p>                                Season<\/p>\n<p>                                Knee<\/p>\n<p>                                Season<\/p>\n<p>                                Achilles<\/p>\n<p>                                Season<\/p>\n<p>                                Quad<\/p>\n<p>                                6-7 Weeks<\/p>\n<p>                                Hamstring<\/p>\n<p>                                2 Weeks<\/p>\n<p>                                Calf<\/p>\n<p>                                1 Week<\/p>\n<p>                                Quad<\/p>\n<p>                                2 Weeks<\/p>\n<p>                                Hamstring<\/p>\n<p>                                Test<\/p>\n<p class=\"injury-list__info-content\">\n                                                Concussion Protocols after a head clash\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Knee\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: Season\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Knee\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: Season\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Achilles\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: Season\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Quad\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: 6-7 Weeks\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Hamstring\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: 2 Weeks\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Calf\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: 1 Week\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Quad\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: 2 Weeks\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Injury: Hamstring\n                                <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Est. Return: Test\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brisbane Lions could welcome back two experienced defenders for their trip to Perth for Friday night\u2019s clash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-63037","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\/63037","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=63037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}