{"id":587249,"date":"2026-04-05T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587249\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:54:10","slug":"afl-round-four-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-marvel-stadium-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587249\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL round four 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from Marvel Stadium in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gun midfielder Ed Richards (left knee soreness) withdrew barely half an hour before the game, with Lachie McNeil the late replacement.<\/p>\n

English and Jones will have scans to determine the severity of their injuries.<\/p>\n

The top-of-the-ladder Bulldogs also have uncertainly over experienced midfielder Adam Treloar, who only played four games last year due to injury.<\/p>\n

Western Bulldogs have started the season with a 4-0 for only the second time 2007. They last managed that early run in 2021 when they make the grand final.<\/p>\n

But coach Luke Beveridge said the Bulldogs still have so much to prove.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve just got no runs on the board,\u201d said Beveridge.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, promising start.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we haven\u2019t sustained anything like this any other year, so we just need to remind ourselves every week that if we want to emerge as that team, there\u2019s a long way to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou saw it tonight. Under pressure, we didn\u2019t handle it too well at times. We fumbled it. We coughed it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe missed open-field targets too many times in a game where the conditions seemed perfect. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve just got to keep pushing the button on how aspirational we are, and just keep reminding ourselves that it\u2019s got to be a week-to-week thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beveridge said Treloar, 33, who didn\u2019t play in the VFL this weekend, hadn\u2019t \u201chad any fluency at all in his preparation\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did say that he was close. He\u2019s building. He isn\u2019t quite [there]. When you think about the way he finished the year off last year at state lead level, that form and what he was doing would have stacked up at AFL level,\u201d Beveridge said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHasn\u2019t quite been able to get to his credentials this year yet, and that was what I was alluding to. But when push came to shove, in preparation for this game, he just didn\u2019t feel right, so we took some precaution and didn\u2019t play him at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019ll spend the next couple of weeks trying to get into the line. But yeah, he\u2019s a real wait and see Adam because it\u2019s he hasn\u2019t had any fluency at all in his preparation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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