{"id":517987,"date":"2026-03-04T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517987\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:17:10","slug":"afl-opening-round-2026-teams-and-expert-tips-as-sydney-swans-set-to-clash-with-carlton-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517987\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL opening round 2026 teams and expert tips as Sydney Swans set to clash with Carlton Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY<br \/>B: L.Melican, T.McCartin, D.Rampe<br \/>HB: C.Mills, N.Blakey, S.Wicks<br \/>C: J.Jordon, I.Heeney, M.Roberts<br \/>HF: M.Rosas, J.Rowbottom, T.Papley<br \/>F: J.Amartey, C.Curnow, L.McDonald<br \/>R: B.Grundy, E.Gulden, Ch.Warner<br \/>I\/C: R.Bice, J.McInerney, J.Serong, J.Lloyd, A.Sheldrick<br \/>EMG: P.Ladhams, Co.Warner, H.McLean<\/p>\n<p>CARLTON<br \/>B: O.Florent, J.Weitering, L.Young<br \/>HB: H.Dean, M.McGovern, A.Saad<br \/>C: O.Hollands, P.Cripps, W.Hayward<br \/>HF: L.Fogarty, H.McKay, B.Ainsworth<br \/>F: J.Smith, B.Kemp, A.Moir<br \/>R: M.Pittonet, G.Hewett, S.Walsh<br \/>I\/C: Z.Williams, L.Reidy, E.Hollands, C.Chesser, C.Lord<br \/>EMG: T.Byrne, H.O\u2019Keeffe, J.Boyd<\/p>\n<p>Keep up to date with the best AFL coverage in the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p56jp7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for the Real Footy newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYDNEYB: L.Melican, T.McCartin, D.RampeHB: C.Mills, N.Blakey, S.WicksC: J.Jordon, I.Heeney, M.RobertsHF: M.Rosas, J.Rowbottom, T.PapleyF: J.Amartey, C.Curnow, L.McDonaldR: B.Grundy, E.Gulden,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-517987","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\/517987","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=517987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}