{"id":168792,"date":"2025-09-25T19:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168792\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T19:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:50:16","slug":"huge-match-ups-crucial-to-afl-grand-final-the-canberra-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168792\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge match-ups crucial to AFL grand final | The Canberra Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">* Shannon Neale (Geelong) v Harris Andrews (Brisbane). Arguably the best key defender in the game right now, Lions co-captain Andrews is an intercepting beast and also plays a crucial role in helping out his teammates. Neale will need to crash packs, mark the ball or at least bring it to ground to thwart the Brisbane skipper, who has had his number recently. There&#8217;s also every chance Mark Blicavs could be sent to Andrews, like Magpie Billy Frampton&#8217;s famous lockdown role in 2023. Watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"* Shannon Neale (Geelong) v Harris Andrews (Brisbane). Arguably the best key defender in the game right now,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-168792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168792","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=168792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}