{"id":876018,"date":"2026-09-01T08:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/876018\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T08:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:54:10","slug":"afl-injury-update-qualifying-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/876018\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Injury Update: Qualifying Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                See the latest update on Sydney&#8217;s AFL list ahead of the Qualifying Final against Brisbane.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Joel Amartey &#8211; Achilles strain\u00a0<br \/>Joel has successfully resumed full team training, has completed key training benchmarks and will be a test to return to play this week.<br \/>TEST<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Justin McInerney &#8211; Hamstring strain<br \/>Justin has returned to full team training and is continuing to increase his training and football workloads as part of his return to play progression. He is on track for a return next week.\u00a0<br \/>1 week<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Noah Chamberlain &#8211; hamstring injury\u00a0<br \/>Noah is reintegrating into team training and is continuing to increase his running speed exposure, strength and overall training tolerance.\u00a0<br \/>2 weeks\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ned Bowman &#8211; hamstring injury\u00a0<br \/>Ned sustained a minor hamstring injury during the VFL match. He has pulled up well and will undertake a short period of rehabilitation<br \/>TBC<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Peter Ladhams &#8211; Groin pain\u00a0<br \/>Peter is continuing to focus on strength and movement control while allowing his groin symptoms to settle. His return to play will be guided by his functional progression and achievement of key rehabilitation milestone<br \/>Season\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Will Edwards &#8211; Ankle fracture\/dislocation\u00a0<br \/>Will is continuing early rehabilitation and is now taking partial weight through his leg while remaining protected in a walking boot. The focus remains on protecting the repair while gradually restoring function and range of motion.<br \/>Season\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Liam Hetherton &#8211; Lower back stress injury<br \/>Liam has successfully introduced running loading while continuing to progress steadily through his rehabilitation program.<br \/>Season<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Max King &#8211; Lower back stress injury\u00a0<br \/>Max has successfully recommenced running and continues to make steady gains through his rehabilitation strength program.<br \/>Season\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"See the latest update on Sydney&#8217;s AFL list ahead of the Qualifying Final against Brisbane. Joel Amartey &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-876018","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\/876018","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=876018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}