CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\nMcGrath returns for the first time since suffering a broken jaw in round 11, with the Bombers also regaining\u00a0Jye Caldwell, Isaac Kako\u00a0and\u00a0Darcy Parish.<\/p>\n
Former top-10 picks\u00a0Elijah Tsatas\u00a0and\u00a0Nik Cox\u00a0have both been omitted, while Archie Roberts and Kyle Langford are sidelined through injury.<\/p>\n
North Melbourne has recalled talls Wil Dawson and Callum Coleman-Jones to cover for injured ruck Tristan Xerri after the pair impressed at VFL level last week.<\/p>\n
The Roos also welcome back young defender Josh Goater, who will play his first AFL game since round one, 2024 after two injury-interrupted seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Taylor Goad (omitted) joins McDonald and Xerri on the sideline.<\/p>\n
Fremantle has reinstated Darcy to partner Luke Jackson in the ruck against the Suns, with Cox making way after nine games at his new club.<\/p>\n
Darcy hasn’t played since suffering a concussion in the Dockers’ Gather Round win over Collingwood in round five. A calf strain during his recovery delayed his return, but the ruckman has spent the past three weeks building match fitness in the WAFL.<\/p>\n
Gold Coast regains Wil Powell after missing a fortnight with a shoulder injury, while midfielder Ben Jepson returns to replace the suspended Sam Clohesy.<\/p>\n
Charlie Ballard has also been recalled, with Daniel Rioli sidelined by injury and Oscar Adams omitted.<\/p>\n
SUNDAY, JUNE 28<\/p>\n
North Melbourne v Essendon at Marvel Stadium, 3.15pm AEST<\/p>\n
NORTH MELBOURNE<\/p>\n
In: W.Dawson, C.Coleman-Jones, J.Goater
Out: T.Xerri (jaw), L.McDonald (managed), T.Goad (omitted)<\/p>\n
ESSENDON<\/p>\n
In: A.McGrath, J.Caldwell, D.Parish, I.Kako
Out: A.Roberts (shoulder), K.Langford (quad), E.Tsatas (omitted), N.Cox (omitted)<\/p>\n
Fremantle v Gold Coast at Optus Stadium, 3.10pm AWST<\/p>\n
FREMANTLE<\/p>\n
In: S.Darcy
Out: M.Cox (omitted)<\/p>\n
GOLD COAST<\/p>\n
In: W.Powell, C.Ballard, B.Jepson
Out: S.Clohesy (suspension), D.Rioli (jaw),\u00a0O.Adams (omitted)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teams for round 16’s Sunday matches are in L-R: Andrew McGrath, Luke McDonald, Wil Powell. Pictures: AFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-762190","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\/762190","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=762190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}