{"id":479317,"date":"2026-02-14T10:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/479317\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:43:15","slug":"follow-afl-state-of-origin-2026-results-odds-squads-and-start-time-from-optus-stadium-in-perth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/479317\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow AFL State of Origin 2026, results, odds, squads and start time from Optus Stadium in Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian chairman of selectors Garry Lyon has praised his side\u2019s tenacity in the first half and added an insight into Jacob Weitering\u2019s injury.<\/p>\n<p>Weitering was taken to hospital with rib and shoulder concerns, it was initially feared he might have a concussion, but the AFL offered an update earlier to say he didn\u2019t have concussion symptoms at present.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nick Daicos, Bailey Smith and Marcus Bontempelli of Victoria are seen during quarter time.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6aa6be8a32a4ca2978002bb66dda9265c81bccc1.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nick Daicos, Bailey Smith and Marcus Bontempelli of Victoria are seen during quarter time.Credit: AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Lyon argued against concerns in the lead-up that players would protect their bodies and treat this match like an exhibition contest, rather than a serious match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big clash with Jacob Weitering, who we hope is going to be OK, he\u2019s off to the hospital,\u201d Lyon said to Fox Footy at half-time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been asking about the score, so I think it is precautionary. But it puts to rest the notion that these boys weren\u2019t going to go flat out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victorian chairman of selectors Garry Lyon has praised his side\u2019s tenacity in the first half and added an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-479317","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479317","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=479317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}