{"id":49973,"date":"2025-08-07T08:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49973\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T08:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:46:09","slug":"follow-afl-round-22-scores-results-odds-squads-and-start-time-from-the-mcg-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49973\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow AFL round 22 scores, results, odds, squads and start time from the MCG in Melbourne."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collingwood assistant coach Scott Selwood admits forward Brody Mihocek is an invaluable part of the Magpies\u2019 forward line as his future at the club remains uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>Mihocek is seeking a longer-term contract but it\u2019s something he may only get at another club with the Magpies, who have an ageing list, reportedly playing hardball about his next deal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tom Mitchell of the Magpies handballs the ball.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/b084fb6a6387d9e1e970c5dedb579fa2a12750c8.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tom Mitchell of the Magpies handballs the ball.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a forwards coach, we do like to play a combative style and he\u2019s a guy who can play tall or small in that he can crunch the packs or he can do chase down tackles,\u201d Selwood told Fox Footy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are not many keys [key forwards] like that, so selfishly as a forwards coach, I\u2019d love to keep him as long as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Veteran onballer Tom Mitchell returns to the Magpies tonight and Selwood has tipped him to have a big game despite only playing nine games since the start of last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s his strength position and he\u2019s excited for the opportunity as he has missed most of last year and this year &#8211; any opportunity at AFL level, he\u2019s ready to eat up and this is the perfect game for him against his old side,\u201d Selwood told Fox Footy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a feeling it is going to be a good night for Tom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collingwood assistant coach Scott Selwood admits forward Brody Mihocek is an invaluable part of the Magpies\u2019 forward line&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-49973","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\/49973","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=49973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}