{"id":550315,"date":"2026-03-19T10:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/550315\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T10:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:02:21","slug":"afl-2026-hawthorn-hawks-vs-sydney-swans-round-2-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/550315\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL 2026, Hawthorn Hawks vs Sydney Swans, Round 2 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blockbuster Round 2 opener sees Sydney needing to overcome modern rival Hawthorn without its two best players. Live updates below!<\/p>\n<p>The Swans (2-0, 182.9%) are without Errol Gulden and Isaac Heeney, the former long-term and latter short-term, giving the Hawks (1-1, 117.1%) hope of a second straight win.<\/p>\n<p>Watch every match of every round of the AFL Premiership Season LIVE and ad-break free during play on FOX FOOTY, available on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/en-AU\/welcome\/afl?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkafl-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-afl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" title=\"kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Match details: Hawthorn vs Sydney Swans from 7:30pm AEDT at the MCG<\/p>\n<p>Watch it live: On Fox Footy (channel 504), and streaming on Kayo, from 6:30pm AEDT<\/p>\n<p>Follow Hawthorn vs Sydney in our live blog below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A blockbuster Round 2 opener sees Sydney needing to overcome modern rival Hawthorn without its two best players.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-550315","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\/550315","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=550315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}