{"id":68245,"date":"2025-08-14T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/68245\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:13:08","slug":"important-forward-debutant-among-three-inclusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/68245\/","title":{"rendered":"Important forward, debutant among three inclusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Essendon name side for Saints clash.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Essendon have made three inclusions to its lineup ahead of Friday night&#8217;s matchup with the Saints.<\/p>\n<p>Making his return to the side after a lengthy recovery from a quad injury is forward Kyle Langford.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rhys Unwin, the Dons&#8217; 15th debutant of the season will be making his first appearance in the forward line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Winger Saad El-Hawli will also make his return to the side this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Out due to injury is skipper Zach Merrett\u00a0who is recovering from a successful hand surgery, while Archie May\u00a0will miss with an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Shiel\u00a0is out due to a one-match suspension after his tribunal hearing earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essendon name side for Saints clash. Essendon have made three inclusions to its lineup ahead of Friday night&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-68245","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\/68245","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=68245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}