{"id":535273,"date":"2026-03-12T09:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535273\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T09:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:57:10","slug":"afl-round-one-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-the-mcg-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535273\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL round one 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from the MCG in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the end of the term, the Tigers had worked back into the contest, but the Blues still lead by 19 points.<\/p>\n<p>In just his fifth quarter of football, Jagga Smith had a barely believable 16 touches in the first term, and seven of them were score assists.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jagga Smith was on fire in the first term.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4dea4f1a08635787e2d34c2597bf513bd7cbcf69.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jagga Smith was on fire in the first term.Credit: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>Michael Voss made a few changes after last week\u2019s disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>Mitch McGovern was swung forward and booted two goals in the first quarter as the Blues looked damaging every time they went forward.<\/p>\n<p>At one stage they had four goals one from just six inside 50s. Zac Williams was switched back to a half-back flank, with his run and ball use opening the ground up for the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Grlj on debut looked composed, even taking kick-ins in his first game, and he backed himself intaking bounces off half-back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By the end of the term, the Tigers had worked back into the contest, but the Blues still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-535273","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\/535273","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=535273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}