{"id":708557,"date":"2026-06-01T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/708557\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:00:18","slug":"andy-moniz-wakefield-ruptures-acl-again-out-for-2026-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/708557\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Moniz-Wakefield ruptures ACL again, out for 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Demons youngster Andy Moniz-Wakefield will miss the rest of the 2026 season after rupturing his ACL in the last quarter against GWS on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old came off late in the fourth quarter, with scans confirming he had done his ACL for the second time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is disappointing news for Andy, particularly given the work he put in over the pre-season to return from his previous knee injury. We all really feel for him,\u201d Melbourne\u2019s general manager of football Alan Richardson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, we will make sure Andy is well supported through this tough time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moniz-Wakefield ruptured his ACL, MCL and PCL in an incident in a pre-season game in 2025. <\/p>\n<p>He had 10 disposals before leaving the field, after impressing in the VFL the week prior. <\/p>\n<p>Originally published as <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/afl\/melbourne-demons-player-andy-monizwakefield-out-for-season-after-second-acl-rupture-club-confirms\/news-story\/ebc90f7bd07e74927a26715ca5d80494\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne Demons player Andy Moniz-Wakefield out for season after second ACL rupture, club confirms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne Demons youngster Andy Moniz-Wakefield will miss the rest of the 2026 season after rupturing his ACL in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,54514,64,63,55,639,344499,2105,307190,3512,7804,43961,68055,212078,85,46862],"class_list":["post-708557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-alan-richardson","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-disappointing-blow","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-harvey-constable","tag-knee-injury","tag-melbourne-demons","tag-newswire-sport","tag-pre-season-game","tag-sarah-morton","tag-sports","tag-young-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708557","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=708557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}