{"id":896382,"date":"2026-09-18T09:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T09:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896382\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T09:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T09:26:16","slug":"aflw-team-selection-rentsch-returns-for-saints-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896382\/","title":{"rendered":"AFLW team selection: Rentsch returns for Saints clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The Eagles have confirmed their 21-player team to take on St Kilda on Sunday\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                            By westcoasteagles.com.au\n                            <\/p>\n<p>The West Coast Eagles have made one change to the final team to take on St Kilda at RSEA Park on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Ferocious defender Jess Rentsch will suit up for her first game of the season after overcoming a foot injury, bolstering the Eagles\u2019 backline stocks.<\/p>\n<p>Rentsch had a break-out 2025 campaign, her aggressive tackling pressure and competitive edge playing a key role in the club\u2019s first finals appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Abbygail Bushby comes out of the squad this week due to a one-week suspension, handed down by the MRO following an incident in last week\u2019s win over Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>Roxy Roux, Natasha Entwistle and Ella Slocombe have been named as emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>The match starts at 1:05pm WST on Sunday and will be broadcast live on the 7 Network in WA, and nationally on Fox Footy and Kayo.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/tradablebits.com\/tb_app\/525906?utm_campaign=subscribe&amp;utm_medium=website-main&amp;utm_source=wce&amp;utm_content=article-promo\" class=\"promo-image__link\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/tradablebits.com\/tb_app\/525906?utm_campaign=subscribe&amp;utm_medium=website-main&amp;utm_source=wce&amp;utm_content=article-promo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>        <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Eagles have confirmed their 21-player team to take on St Kilda on Sunday By westcoasteagles.com.au The West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-896382","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\/896382","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=896382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}