{"id":668049,"date":"2026-05-13T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668049\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:00:12","slug":"afl-team-announcement-marshall-gardiner-return-for-thursday-night-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668049\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Team Announcement: Marshall, Gardiner return for Thursday night football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Premiership duo Darcy Gardiner and Sam Marshall have both been named by the Brisbane Lions to take on Geelong at the Gabba on Thursday night.\n            <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/131\/darcy-gardiner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gardiner<\/a> has recovered from shoulder surgery having not played since Round 3, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/9042\/sam-marshall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marshall<\/a>\u00a0earns his first game back at AFL level since last year\u2019s Grand Final.<\/p>\n<p>The pair come in for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/293\/lincoln-mccarthy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln McCarthy<\/a> who is out with hamstring awareness and defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/1368\/darragh-joyce\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darragh Joyce<\/a> who returns to the VFL.<\/p>\n<p>Gardiner and Marshall are both named to start on the interchange with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/5146\/kai-lohmann\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kai Lohmann<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/982\/conor-mckenna\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conor McKenna<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/2221\/bruce-reville\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Reville<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions three emergencies are Joyce, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/5673\/james-tunstill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Tunstill<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lions.com.au\/players\/6783\/shadeau-brain\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shadeau Brain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday night\u2019s Grand Final re-match against Geelong is scheduled for a 7:30pm start and will be broadcast live on Seven, Fox Footy and Kayo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Premiership duo Darcy Gardiner and Sam Marshall have both been named by the Brisbane Lions to take on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85,83],"class_list":["post-668049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668049","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=668049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}