{"id":638938,"date":"2026-04-29T19:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/638938\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T19:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:07:13","slug":"more-big-outs-for-pies-among-four-changes-key-hawks-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/638938\/","title":{"rendered":"More big outs for Pies among four changes, key Hawks return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The teams are in for Thursday night&#8217;s clash between Collingwood and Hawthorn at the MCG\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                L-R: Beau McCreery, James Sicily, Jeremy Howe. Pictures: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>COLLINGWOOD will be without Beau McCreery for Thursday night&#8217;s clash against Hawthorn, while veteran Jeremy Howe is also missing amongst four changes for the Pies.<\/p>\n<p>McCreery (general soreness) and Howe (managed) have added to the expected absences of Scott Pendlebury (managed) and Tim Membrey (hamstring), although skipper Darcy Moore&#8217;s return from injury has been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; KEEP SCROLLING TO SEE THE FULL TEAMS OR\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/matches\/team-lineups\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forward Jack Buller has been recalled to replace Membrey, while Ned Long and Wil Parker are also back.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks have made just two expected changes, with skipper James Sicily and half-forward Dylan Moore returning from suspension and Jack Dalton and Harry Morrison dropping out of the side.<\/p>\n<p>Membrey will be sidelined for the next month after straining his hamstring against Essendon on Anzac Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has played the first seven games of 2026 and kicked nine goals, opening the door for Buller to return.<\/p>\n<p>Buller was dropped after being held scoreless across his first two appearances in the black and white.<\/p>\n<p>But after kicking 12 goals from four VFL games, including 5.2 against the Bombers last week, the West Australian has been given another chance.<\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, APRIL 30<\/p>\n<p>Collingwood v Hawthorn at the MCG, 7.30pm AEST<\/p>\n<p>COLLINGWOOD<\/p>\n<p>In: D.Moore, N.Long, W.Parker, J.Buller<br \/>Out: J.Howe (managed), S.Pendlebury (managed), B.McCreery (general soreness), T.Membrey (hamstring)<\/p>\n<p>HAWTHORN<\/p>\n<p>In: J.Sicily, D.Moore<br \/>Out: H.Morrison (omitted), J.Dalton (omitted)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teams are in for Thursday night&#8217;s clash between Collingwood and Hawthorn at the MCG L-R: Beau McCreery,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-638938","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\/638938","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=638938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}