{"id":275154,"date":"2025-11-10T09:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/275154\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T09:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:52:20","slug":"what-tony-shaw-and-matthew-richardson-think-of-the-new-afl-finals-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/275154\/","title":{"rendered":"What Tony Shaw and Matthew Richardson think of the new AFL finals format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Shaw and Matthew Richardson have both weighed in on the AFL\u2019s announcement on the new finals format, with two wildcard finals to be played during the pre-finals bye.<\/p>\n<p>The Collingwood had a strong stance on the wildcard round, telling Jacqui Felgate he\u2019s not a fan of the new look finals series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you finish ninth or 10th, you haven\u2019t qualified to make finals \u2026 I don\u2019t like it,\u201d Shaw said on 3AW Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear his strong stance<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Richardson also had a strong opinion, and highlighted a problem which will arise towards the back end of next season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not happy,\u201d Richardson told Jimmy Bartel on Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear the problem Richo thinks will arise with the new format<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.3aw.com.au\/what-jon-anderson-thinks-will-happen-following-wildcard-finals-announcement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What Jon Anderson thinks will happen following wildcard finals announcement<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Images: Supplied, Michael Willson\/Getty\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Shaw and Matthew Richardson have both weighed in on the AFL\u2019s announcement on the new finals format,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,14676,85],"class_list":["post-275154","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-football-featured","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275154","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=275154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}