{"id":448647,"date":"2026-01-31T02:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/448647\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T02:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:32:05","slug":"footscray-to-host-casey-in-r1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/448647\/","title":{"rendered":"Footscray to host Casey in R1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The Bulldogs will unfurl their 2025 premiership flag against the Dees on Saturday 21 March.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                            By Western Bulldogs Media\n                            <\/p>\n<p>Footscray\u2019s premiership defence will be put to its first test against Casey in Round 1 of the 2026 Smithy\u2019s VFL season.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs will unfurl their 2025 premiership flag against the Dees at Mission Whitten Oval on Saturday 21 March from 2:05pm.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts will enter the clash on a 14-game winning streak, which stretches back to Round 9 of their premiership-winning season.<\/p>\n<p>It will also mark the first official match for incoming coach Alex Johnson, who took the reins late last year.<\/p>\n<p>Ticketing information will be confirmed in due course, with the full 2026 fixture to be released in coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Round 1 &#8211; 2026 Smithy\u2019s VFL Season<\/p>\n<p>Footscray Bulldogs vs Casey Demons <br \/>Saturday 21 March, 2:05pm AEDT<br \/>Mission Whitten Oval (Wurundjeri\/Boon Wurrung)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bulldogs will unfurl their 2025 premiership flag against the Dees on Saturday 21 March. By Western Bulldogs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448648,"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-448647","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\/448647","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=448647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}