{"id":68145,"date":"2025-08-14T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/68145\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:20:08","slug":"afl-squad-selection-three-cats-added-to-the-initial-squad-for-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/68145\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Squad Selection | Three Cats Added to the Initial Squad for Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Geelong has selected their initial 26-player squad ahead of Sunday’s clash with Sydney\n <\/p>\n

Three experienced Cats have been added to Geelong’s initial 26-player squad ahead of Sunday’s clash with Sydney at the SCG.<\/p>\n

After being managed last week, forward duo Patrick Dangerfield and Jack Martin have both been named and are in line to return in Round 23.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jed Bews rounds out the additions to the squad, after stringing a dominant run of games for the VFL Cats in recent weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Geelong will announce their final team at 5.00pm AEST on Friday afternoon, before heading to the Harbour City in preparation for Sunday’s match.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Round 23 looms as another crucial clash with Finals drawing closer, the Cats can lock in their spot in September and take a step closer to securing a top-four position with a win over the Swans this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The match will be broadcast live and free on Channel 7 from 3.00pm AEST on Sunday, ahead of the opening bounce at 3.15pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Geelong’s VFL team will also be in action on Sunday in Sydney, needing a big win over the Swans in the final round of the home and away season to secure a spot in Finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prior to that, the AFLW Cats will commence their 2025 season with a blockbuster clash against the reigning premiers, taking on the Kangaroos at GMHBA Stadium. Make sure to secure your seat through Ticketmaster<\/a> so you do not miss a minute of the action.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latest News Geelong has selected their initial 26-player squad ahead of Sunday’s clash with Sydney Three experienced Cats…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-68145","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\/68145","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=68145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}