{"id":55083,"date":"2025-08-09T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55083\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T09:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:36:07","slug":"follow-afl-round-22-scores-results-odds-squads-and-start-time-from-marvel-stadium-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55083\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow AFL round 22 scores, results, odds, squads and start time from Marvel Stadium in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy from Marvel Stadium where the Blues take on the Suns and there\u2019s plenty of room in the stands.<\/p>\n<p>A few points of note: rugged midfielder George Hewett lines up for his 200th game (120 of those with the Swans), the Blues will celebrate the recently retired Sam Docherty at half-time with a video tribute and the Carlton players will wear black armbands in honour of former boot studder Laurie Carter.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patrick Cripps of the Blues warms up.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/911cfc4b051a241b28528eec14df8f5ef472e512.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Patrick Cripps of the Blues warms up.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, it will be fascinating to see if the Blues bounce off the news that Michael Voss will coach next year.<\/p>\n<p>Once the action gets underway, first bounce at 7.35pm, expect Cooper Lord to tag Suns star Noah Anderson, while \u201cold bull\u201d Patrick Cripps will go head-to-head with \u201cyoung bull\u201d Matt Rowell.<\/p>\n<p>On form the Blues are outsiders. They are 14th (seven wins and 13 losses) compared to the seventh-placed Suns (13 wins and six losses).<\/p>\n<p>But before this year, Gold Coast have had a poor record at Marvel Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Across 40 games they are running at 25 per cent, winning just one in four. That has to count for something, surely?<\/p>\n<p>Although, they have enjoyed a superior strike rate this season at the Docklands, winning two of their three games to date &#8211; downing St Kilda and Essendon, while losing to Richmond earlier in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Howdy from Marvel Stadium where the Blues take on the Suns and there\u2019s plenty of room in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-55083","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\/55083","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=55083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}