{"id":97750,"date":"2025-08-26T18:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/97750\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T18:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:34:17","slug":"suns-welcome-back-stars-dons-lose-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/97750\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns welcome back stars, Dons lose forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The teams are in for Wednesday night&#8217;s clash between Gold Coast and Essendon\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Daniel Rioli, Jade Gresham and Bailey Humphrey. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>GOLD COAST will add some much-needed speed and skill for its season-defining clash against Essendon, recalling\u00a0Daniel Rioli\u00a0and\u00a0Bailey Humphrey\u00a0for the must-win game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Bombers have also added key players in midfielder\u00a0Sam Durham\u00a0and defender\u00a0Jayden Laverde\u00a0for the clash, but they have lost forward\u00a0Jade Gresham\u00a0(personal reasons).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; KEEP SCROLLING TO SEE THE FULL TEAMS OR\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/matches\/team-lineups\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rioli (leg) and Humphrey (knee) will be vital to the Suns&#8217; hopes of clinching the first finals berth in the club&#8217;s 15-year history. Midfielder\u00a0Jake Rogers\u00a0also comes into the side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A win by any margin will be enough to secure a top-eight spot at the Western Bulldogs&#8217; expense, with the margin to decide whether Damien Hardwick&#8217;s side travels to Fremantle for its elimination final, or to Sydney to face GWS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Suns are coming off successive losses to GWS and Port Adelaide, while the Bombers are staring down the barrel of their 13th successive defeat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27<\/p>\n<p>Gold Coast v Essendon at People First Stadium, 7.20pm AEST<\/p>\n<p>GOLD COAST<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In: D.Rioli, B.Humphrey, J.Rogers<br \/>Out: A.Sexton (omitted), O.Adams (omitted), L.Gulbin (omitted)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">R24 sub: Sam Flanders\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ESSENDON<\/p>\n<p>In: J.Laverde, S.Durham<br \/>Out: Z.Johnson (omitted), J.Gresham (personal reason)<\/p>\n<p>R24 sub: Zak Johnson\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teams are in for Wednesday night&#8217;s clash between Gold Coast and Essendon Daniel Rioli, Jade Gresham and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-97750","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","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97750","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=97750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}