CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\nRichmond’s injury woes have worsened with former No.1 pick\u00a0Sam Lalor\u00a0unable to face West Coast due to an Achilles injury, while veteran\u00a0Tim Taranto\u00a0is out at least another week with concussion.<\/p>\n
In other round eight team news,\u00a0Dan Curtin\u00a0has been named for his first game of 2026, included to face Port Adelaide in Friday night’s Showdown.<\/p>\n
Curtin played one game in the SANFL after overcoming a knee injury and is one of four changes made by the Crows, with\u00a0Alex Neal-Bullen\u00a0and\u00a0Jake Soligo\u00a0both back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Darcy Fogarty\u00a0will miss a fifth match with a back problem.<\/p>\n
While the Bulldogs have made wholesale changes, Fremantle has just one, with Patrick\u00a0Voss\u00a0overcoming illness and able to rejoin forward line partners\u00a0Josh Treacy\u00a0and\u00a0Jye\u00a0Amiss.<\/p>\n
Nik Cox\u00a0will play his first senior game in 630 days for Essendon on Saturday when he runs out against Brisbane at Marvel Stadium, with midfielder\u00a0Darcy Parish rested and Elijah Tsatas dropped.<\/p>\n
The Lions have named debutant\u00a0Cody Curtin\u00a0to replace injured\u00a0Oscar Allen, with veteran\u00a0Dayne Zorko\u00a0back from a calf injury.<\/p>\n
Carlton has been bolstered by the return of\u00a0Harry McKay\u00a0and\u00a0Ollie Hollands to face a St Kilda team that has named\u00a0Liam Henry\u00a0for the first time this year.<\/p>\n
There’s key defenders back everywhere for the Geelong and North Melbourne match, with\u00a0Sam De Koning\u00a0and\u00a0Jake Kolodjashnij\u00a0returning for the Cats and\u00a0Charlie Comben\u00a0in for the Roos.<\/p>\n
Gold Coast has managed ruckman\u00a0Jarrod Witts\u00a0and youngster\u00a0Zeke Uwland\u00a0for Sunday night’s Expansion Cup against Greater Western Sydney.<\/p>\n
FRIDAY, MAY 1<\/p>\n
Western Bulldogs v Fremantle, Marvel Stadium, 7.30pm AEST<\/p>\n
WESTERN BULLDOGS<\/p>\n
In: N.Coffield, H.Gallagher, A.Jones, L.Vandermeer, T.English, L.McNeil
Out: R.Gardner (omitted), L.Jaques (omitted), L.Smith (omitted), O.Baker (omitted), A.Treloar (managed), C.Hynes (omitted)<\/p>\n
FREMANTLE<\/p>\n
In: P.Voss
Out: J.McVee (illness)<\/p>\n
Adelaide v Port Adelaide, Adelaide Oval, 7.40pm ACST<\/p>\n
ADELAIDE<\/p>\n
In: J.Borlase, D.Curtin, A.Neal-Bullen, J.Soligo
Out: N.Murray (omitted), J.Dawson (personal reason), F.Maley (omitted), C.Edwards (omitted)<\/p>\n
PORT ADELAIDE<\/p>\n
In: T.Marshall
Out: J.Watkins (omitted)<\/p>\n
SATURDAY, MAY 2<\/p>\n
Essendon v Brisbane, Marvel Stadium, 12.35pm AEST<\/p>\n
ESSENDON<\/p>\n
In: J.Gresham, N.Cox, M.Kondogiannis, J.Nguyen
Out: I.Kako (back), A.May (knee), D.Parish (managed), E.Tsatas (omitted)<\/p>\n
BRISBANE<\/p>\n
In: D.Zorko, C.Curtin
Out: O.Allen (foot), J.Tunstill (omitted)<\/p>\n
West Coast v Richmond, Optus Stadium, 2.15pm AWST<\/p>\n
WEST COAST<\/p>\n
In: M.Owies, T.Cole, H.Schoenberg
Out: S.Brock (omitted), J.Williams (omitted), B.Allan (omitted)<\/p>\n
RICHMOND<\/p>\n
In: J.Short, T.Sonsie, O.Hayes-Brown
Out: H.Ralphsmith (knee), S.Lalor (Achilles), S.Ryan (omitted)<\/p>\n
Geelong v North Melbourne, GMHBA Stadium, 4.35pm AEST<\/p>\n
GEELONG<\/p>\n
In: S.De Koning, J.Kolodjashnij
Out: M.Blicavs (knee), J.Bowes (managed)<\/p>\n
NORTH MELBOURNE<\/p>\n
In: C.Comben
Out: T.Pink (omitted)<\/p>\n
Carlton v St Kilda, Marvel Stadium, 7.35pm AEST<\/p>\n
CARLTON<\/p>\n
In: A.Saad, O.Hollands, H.McKay, M.Pittonet
Out: C.Lord (omitted), A.Moir (omitted), T.Byrne (omitted), L.Young (omitted)<\/p>\n
ST KILDA<\/p>\n
In: L.Stocker, L.Henry
Out: L.Ryan (corked hip), H.Clark (knee)<\/p>\n
SUNDAY, MAY 3<\/p>\n
Sydney v Melbourne, SCG, 3.15pm AEST<\/p>\n
SYDNEY<\/p>\n
In: L.Melican, I.Heeney, H.McLean, P.Ladhams
Out: T.McCartin (knee)<\/p>\n
MELBOURNE<\/p>\n
In: H.Petty, P.Cross, J.Henderson, A.Moniz-Wakefield
Out: J.Culley (knee)<\/p>\n
Gold Coast v Greater Western Sydney, People First Stadium, 7.20pm AEST<\/p>\n
GOLD COAST<\/p>\n
In: N.Moyle, A.Davies, J.Jeffrey, S.Clohesy, L.Gulbin
Out: J.Witts (managed), Z.Uwland (managed)<\/p>\n
GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY<\/p>\n
In:\u00a0K.Briggs, H.Rowston, J.Fonti, J.Riccardi
Out: N.Madden (knee)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim English, Sam Lalor and Dan Curtin. Pictures: AFL Photos TIM English\u00a0is one of a whopping six changes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-640668","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\/640668","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=640668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}