{"id":541639,"date":"2026-03-15T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541639\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:54:09","slug":"afl-2026-live-scores-west-coast-eagles-face-tough-gold-coast-opener-against-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541639\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL 2026 live scores: West Coast Eagles face tough Gold Coast opener against Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">West Coast start their 2026 campaign with four debutants but face a steep hill to climb against top-four fancies Gold Coast who began their season with a bang.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">No.1 draft pick Willem Duursma, Cooper Duff-Tytler, Josh Lindsay and Milan Murdock will all mark their first AFL appearance at People\u2019s First Stadium while former Lion Deven Robertson and former Tiger Tylar Young make their club debuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Meanwhile, Jack Graham will notch 150 AFL games in his second season on blue and gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Follow all the action with our live blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Coast start their 2026 campaign with four debutants but face a steep hill to climb against top-four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,588,85,7067],"class_list":["post-541639","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-sport","tag-sports","tag-west-coast-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541639","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=541639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}