{"id":255136,"date":"2025-11-01T09:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T09:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255136\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T09:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T09:22:13","slug":"dees-face-cats-in-chase-for-second-spot-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255136\/","title":{"rendered":"Dees face Cats in chase for second spot. Follow LIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Don&#8217;t miss a second of the action from Saturday&#8217;s round 12 AFLW matches\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Geelong and Melbourne players compete for the ball during the AFLW R12 match at GMHBA Stadium on November 1, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>MELBOURNE can finish in second place on the ladder with victory over Geelong as it looks to bounce back from last week&#8217;s loss to Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>The Dees are the League&#8217;s leading intercept team with 71.6 per game, and will want to capitalise on any lazy ball use from the Cats.<\/p>\n<p>CATS v DEMONS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/aflw\/matches\/7960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Full match coverage and stats<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This also makes the ground-level players of the Cats more crucial, with players like Aishling Moloney, Mikayla Bowen, and Nina Morrison potentially able to break through Melbourne&#8217;s defensive structures.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t miss a second of the action from Saturday&#8217;s round 12 AFLW matches Geelong and Melbourne players compete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-255136","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","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255136","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=255136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}