{"id":851209,"date":"2026-08-11T08:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T08:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851209\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T08:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T08:14:20","slug":"afl-news-2026-geelong-cats-player-jake-kolodjashnij-stands-down-amid-concussion-waiver-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851209\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL news 2026: Geelong Cats player Jake Kolodjashnij stands down amid concussion waiver saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geelong player Jake Kolodjashnij won\u2019t play this weekend after the concussion waiver saga that has rocked the AFL.<\/p>\n<p>The club released a statement on Tuesday night confirming that the 31-year-old wouldn\u2019t be available for selection in either AFL or VFL level.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786436060_233_6e5d6b5e126477d39a933ebab325da010e757a60.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Jake Kolodjashnij.\u00a0AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe care and wellbeing of Jake remains the club\u2019s priority, and the club will continue to support him and his family through this period,\u201d a statement said.<\/p>\n<p>MORE TO COME&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geelong player Jake Kolodjashnij won\u2019t play this weekend after the concussion waiver saga that has rocked the AFL.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-851209","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\/851209","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=851209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}