{"id":522292,"date":"2026-03-06T10:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522292\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:23:19","slug":"follow-afl-opening-round-2026-results-odds-squads-and-start-time-from-people-first-stadium-gold-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522292\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow AFL opening round 2026, results, odds, squads and start time from People First Stadium, Gold Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my, this has been an impressive start by the Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Ben King, who has been well held by Connor O\u2019Sullivan, has booted his first goal of the night, from a free kick in a marking contest.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns have made a statement in a rare Friday night game.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Petracca has been excellent in his first quarter as a Sun, collecting nine possessions and a goal, while Touk Miller is enjoying extra centre square time with 10 disposals in the absence of Brownlow medallist Matt Rowell.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey Humphrey was the star of the quarter with three goals. Unless the Cats can increase pressure up the field, Humphrey is in line for a big night.<\/p>\n<p>Not much has gone right so far for the Cats, who have been beaten 38-30 for contested possessions and unable to stop the Suns once the ball gets to the outside.<\/p>\n<p>At quarter-time, it\u2019s the Suns by 29 points.<\/p>\n<p>Gold Coast 7.1 (43) Geelong 2.2 (14)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oh my, this has been an impressive start by the Suns. Ben King, who has been well held&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-522292","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\/522292","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=522292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}