{"id":359168,"date":"2025-12-19T22:24:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359168\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:24:53","slug":"afl-origin-rivers-third-demon-to-represent-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359168\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Origin | Rivers third Demon to represent state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                News\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Trent Rivers will present Western Australia in the AFL\u2019s Origin match\n            <\/p>\n<p>MELBOURNE\u2019S Trent Rivers will represent Western Australia in the 2026 AAMI AFL Origin match next year.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be played on Saturday 14 February at Optus Stadium and is the first time in more than 25 years that the state-based rivalry has returned to the league, having last been played in 1999 when Victoria played South Australia at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p>Originally drafted to Melbourne from Perth, Rivers will be joining his teammate Kysaiah Pickett, who was also announced as a representative for Western Australia last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Demon defender is the third player from Melbourne announced to play in the Origin match, with Max Gawn set to represent Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 AFL Origin game will be broadcast on Channel 7 and Fox, as well as 7Plus and Kayo streaming platforms, with all event information found at Origin.AFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News Trent Rivers will present Western Australia in the AFL\u2019s Origin match MELBOURNE\u2019S Trent Rivers will represent Western&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359169,"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-359168","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\/359168","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=359168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}