CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\nCarlton has regained full-back\u00a0Jacob Weitering\u00a0after he missed a week with a calf injury, with\u00a0Blake Acres also coming in for his first match of 2026 to face Geelong on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Tanner Bruhn\u00a0is back for the Cats after being rested last week.<\/p>\n
In the biggest match of round 12, Hayden Young (concussion) has not come up for Fremantle’s trip across the country to face two-time premier Brisbane at the Gabba, although the Dockers announced earlier in the week they would have captain\u00a0Alex\u00a0Pearce\u00a0(knee).<\/p>\n
The Lions have been strengthened with the inclusions of winger\u00a0Jarrod Berry\u00a0(calf) and lockdown defender\u00a0Noah Answerth\u00a0(concussion).<\/p>\n
The Western Bulldogs are slowly getting players back, with\u00a0Tim English\u00a0returning after two weeks on the sidelines with concussion to face Collingwood, although small forward\u00a0Cody Weightman\u00a0will have to wait at least another week to return from his long-term knee problem.<\/p>\n
Star defender\u00a0Sam Taylor\u00a0will play his first game of 2026 for Greater Western Sydney, having overcome the hamstring injury he suffered in February’s State of Origin game in Perth.<\/p>\n
Taylor\u00a0will be joined by\u00a0Lachie Whitfield\u00a0for Sunday’s game against Melbourne in Alice Springs after the creative half-back was a late scratching last week.<\/p>\n
Dean Solomon will make at least five changes forced through injury for his first match as Essendon’s interim coach against West Coast on Sunday, with\u00a0Harry Jones\u00a0and\u00a0Elijah\u00a0Tsatas\u00a0named on the extended eight-man bench.<\/p>\n
FRIDAY, MAY 29<\/p>\n
Carlton v Geelong at the MCG, 7.40pm AEST<\/p>\n
CARLTON<\/p>\n
In: J.Weitering, B.Acres
Out: W.Derksen (omitted), M.Carroll (knee)<\/p>\n
GEELONG<\/p>\n
In: T.Bruhn
Out: J.Martin (managed)<\/p>\n
SATURDAY, MAY 30<\/p>\n
Sydney v Richmond at the SCG, 1.15pm AEST<\/p>\n
SYDNEY<\/p>\n
In: H.Kyle, H.Cunningham, P.Ladhams, H.McLean
Out: C.Mills (calf), M.Rosas (ankle), T.Papley (calf), B.Grundy (managed)<\/p>\n
RICHMOND<\/p>\n
In: S.Banks, L.Fawcett, D.Prestia
Out: J.Faull (concussion), T.Lynch (throat), T.Burton (omitted)<\/p>\n
Brisbane v Fremantle at the Gabba, 4.15pm AEST<\/p>\n
BRISBANE<\/p>\n
In: J.Berry, C.Curtin, N.Answerth
Out: J.Tunstill (omitted), S.Marshall (omitted), W.McLachlan (omitted)<\/p>\n
FREMANTLE<\/p>\n
In: A.Pearce
Out: O.McDonald (omitted)<\/p>\n
Western Bulldogs v Collingwood at Marvel Stadium, 7.35pm AEST<\/p>\n
WESTERN BULLDOGS<\/p>\n
In:\u00a0T.English
Out: L.Cleary (concussion)<\/p>\n
COLLINGWOOD<\/p>\n
In: W.Parker, H.Harrison, T.Membrey, A.Anderson
Out: D.Moore (hamstring), J.Elliott (knee), C.West (omitted), W.Hayes (shoulder)<\/p>\n
SUNDAY, MAY 31<\/p>\n
Melbourne v Greater Western Sydney at TIO Traeger Park, 2.45pm ACST<\/p>\n
MELBOURNE<\/p>\n
In: T.McDonald, B.Mihocek, L.Pickett, J.Henderson, A.Moniz-Wakefield
Out: J.Lever (concussion), C.Jiath (general soreness)<\/p>\n
GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY<\/p>\n
In: S.Taylor, L.Whitfield, L.Aleer, H.Rowston, J.Delana
Out: J.Buckley (hamstring), J.Riccardi (ankle)<\/p>\n
West Coast v Essendon at Optus Stadium, 5.20pm AWST<\/p>\n
WEST COAST<\/p>\n
In: C.Duff-Tytler, T.Gross, C.Hall
Out: Nil<\/p>\n
ESSENDON<\/p>\n
In: M.Kondogiannis, N.Cox, E.Tsatas, W.Setterfield, H.Jones, H.El Achkar, S.El-Hawli, J.Nguyen
Out: A.McGrath (jaw), M.Redman (knee), S.Durham (concussion), J.Caldwell (ankle), M.Guelfi (hamstring)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie Grundy, Jacob Weitering and Hayden Young. Picture: AFL Photos SYDNEY is resting red-hot ruckman\u00a0Brodie Grundy\u00a0for Saturday’s match…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-700544","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\/700544","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=700544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}