{"id":74065,"date":"2025-08-17T02:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/74065\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T02:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:27:08","slug":"afl-r23-final-team-young-gun-named-sub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/74065\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL R23 final team: Young gun named sub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Versatile young tall Matt Whitlock will play his second AFL game after being selected in North Melbourne&#8217;s team to face Richmond\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                    Matt Whitlock warms up before Round 23. Picture: NMFC Media<\/p>\n<p>Versatile young tall Matt Whitlock will play his second AFL game after being selected in North Melbourne&#8217;s team to face Richmond in Hobart on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Whitlock, who played as a defender on debut in Round 4 this season, earned his selection after impressing as a forward in recent weeks at VFL level and has been named as the tactical substitute.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Paul Curtis also returns after serving his one-match ban for striking as does captain Jy Simpkin, who has missed the past two games due to a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Defender Riley Hardeman suffered a concussion in the Round 22 defeat to Greater Western Sydney and will miss what will be the club&#8217;s final AFL home game in Tasmania.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Zane Duursma has been omitted, along with ruck-forward Brynn Teakle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Versatile young tall Matt Whitlock will play his second AFL game after being selected in North Melbourne&#8217;s team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-74065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74065","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=74065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}