{"id":139770,"date":"2025-09-13T08:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139770\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T08:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:44:09","slug":"follow-afl-finals-week-2-semi-final-2-scores-results-odds-squads-and-start-time-from-the-gabba-in-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139770\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow AFL finals week 2 semi final 2 scores, results, odds, squads and start time from the Gabba in Brisbane"},"content":{"rendered":"

To get an appreciation of The Dimma Effect at Gold Coast, wind the clock back a few minutes from David Swallow\u2019s historic golden point.<\/p>\n

Streaming through the middle of Optus Stadium with scores tied, the foundation Sun had missed Bailey Humphrey with a 25-metre pass, which, if made, would likely have set up a scoring shot to break the deadlock. From the resultant turnover at half-back, Fremantle rushed the ball to the other end for Luke Jackson to mark and goal.<\/p>\n

\"Damien<\/p>\n

Damien Hardwick addresses his players in Gold Coast\u2019s historica finals victory over Fremantle.Credit: AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Historically, such a moment has crushed many a player and team wearing the red, gold and blue at a club that has seen more than its share of false dawns.<\/p>\n

But, under Damien Hardwick, these Suns are not living in the shadows of the past. Swallow could have wallowed in self-pity and accepted his lot. Instead, on the biggest stage the club has seen, their longest-serving player \u2013 who has lived through all the coach sackings, the wooden spoon seasons and all but two of their nine triple-figure losses \u2013 lived and breathed the Hardwick way.<\/p>\n

Click here to read the story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To get an appreciation of The Dimma Effect at Gold Coast, wind the clock back a few minutes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-139770","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\/139770","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=139770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}