{"id":760196,"date":"2026-06-25T21:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760196\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T21:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:55:12","slug":"afl-r16-squad-four-potential-ins-to-face-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760196\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL R16 squad: Four potential ins to face Bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Defenders Josh Goater and Riley Hardeman are among the Kangaroos in contention for Sunday&#8217;s match against Essendon\n            <\/p>\n<p>Defenders Josh Goater and Riley Hardeman are among the Kangaroos in contention for Sunday&#8217;s match against Essendon at Marvel Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The young pair are among four potential inclusions in North Melbourne&#8217;s extended squad for Round 16.<\/p>\n<p>They are joined in the squad by talls Callum Coleman-Jones and Wil Dawson.<\/p>\n<p>Ruck Tristan Xerri is the only confirmed out, after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmfc.com.au\/news\/2052748\/afl-r16-injury-update-xerri-powell-pink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">underwent surgery this week on a fractured jaw<\/a> suffered against Richmond last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Goater, who has endured two frustrating injury-affected seasons since his last game for the club in Round 1, 2024, was superb in the backline in last weekend&#8217;s VFL win over Richmond.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He gathered 27 disposals, nine intercepts and seven rebound 50s in the 63-point win over the Tigers, while Hardeman won 26 disposals, six marks and five intercepts on his return from a concussion.<\/p>\n<p>Coleman-Jones (18 disposals, 14 hitouts) and Dawson (21 disposals, 14 hitouts) impressed while sharing ruck duties in that match.<\/p>\n<p>North Melbourne will finalise its selected team of 23 players at 5pm AEST on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defenders Josh Goater and Riley Hardeman are among the Kangaroos in contention for Sunday&#8217;s match against Essendon Defenders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-760196","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\/760196","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=760196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}