{"id":759457,"date":"2026-06-25T13:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759457\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:54:10","slug":"squad-selection-stack-of-potential-changes-for-dons-post-bye-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759457\/","title":{"rendered":"Squad selection: Stack of potential changes for Dons&#8217; post-bye return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Announcement\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Bombers add six to extended squad against North Melbourne.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Essendon will make at least three changes to its side to take on North Melbourne this Sunday, with six inclusions in the extended squad.<\/p>\n<p>Skipper Andy McGrath leads a charge of Dons that look to return from injury with Isaac Kako, Jye Caldwell and Darcy Parish alongside him. Tom Edwards and Saad El-Hawli round out the potential ins.<\/p>\n<p>The Dons will lose Kyle Langford and Archie Roberts to respective injuries, while Elijah Tsatas has been omitted from the squad.<\/p>\n<p>Caldwell&#8217;s return is well-timed, with the midfielder set to suit up for his 100th game.<\/p>\n<p>The action kicks off from Marvel Stadium at 3:15pm AEST on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Announcement Bombers add six to extended squad against North Melbourne. Essendon will make at least three changes to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-759457","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\/759457","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=759457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}