{"id":831558,"date":"2026-07-29T15:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/831558\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T15:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:47:20","slug":"teams-cats-rest-veteran-pies-make-call-on-star-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/831558\/","title":{"rendered":"TEAMS: Cats rest veteran, Pies make call on star midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The teams are in for Thursday night&#8217;s clash between Collingwood and Geelong at the MCG\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Patrick Dangerfield and Jordan De Goey. Pictures: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>GEELONG has been dealt a blow with Patrick Dangerfield to miss Thursday night&#8217;s huge clash against Collingwood at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p>Dangerfield hurt his hip in last week&#8217;s win over Melbourne, but has been managed for the blockbuster encounter against the Pies.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; KEEP SCROLLING TO SEE THE FULL TEAMS OR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/matches\/team-lineups\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack Martin comes in for the Cats, who have surprisingly opted against recalling Sam De Koning, listing the defender among their emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>De Koning, who has played 17 games this season, was expected to return after being a late withdrawal last week due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>The Magpies have named gun midfielder Jordan De Goey, who has been under a cloud, also due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>They will be without Brayden Maynard (knee\/hamstring), with Lachie Schultz returning from an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>But there is no room for Sam Swadling, who was unlucky to be dropped for last week&#8217;s win over Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>The Pies (11-1-7) have won six games in a row and sit eighth on the ladder, one spot above the Cats (11-8).<\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, JULY 30<\/p>\n<p>Collingwood v Geelong at the MCG, 7.30pm AEST<\/p>\n<p>COLLINGWOOD<\/p>\n<p>In: L.Schultz<br \/>Out: B.Maynard (knee\/hamstring)<\/p>\n<p>GEELONG<\/p>\n<p>In: J.Martin<br \/>Out: P.Dangerfield (managed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teams are in for Thursday night&#8217;s clash between Collingwood and Geelong at the MCG Patrick Dangerfield and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-831558","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831558","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=831558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}