{"id":597098,"date":"2026-04-10T03:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/597098\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:52:08","slug":"bulldogs-rookie-set-for-afl-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/597098\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulldogs rookie set for AFL debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          Bulldogs rookie set for AFL debut                                   AFL Bulldogs rookie set for AFL debut By Marco Monteverde               Rookie Louis Emmett will make his AFL debut on Saturday night for a Western Bulldogs side seeking improvement despite having started the season with four successive wins.           The towering Emmett, who was pick No.27 in last year\u2019s draft, will replace the injured Tim English in a Dogs side chasing five victories on the trot in a Gather Round battle with Hawthorn at Adelaide Oval.          \u201cHe\u2019s very athletic for a boy who\u2019s (199cm),\u201d Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge said of Emmett. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perthnow.com.au\/sport\/afl\/rookie-louis-emmett-set-for-afl-debut-as-western-bulldogs-chase-fifth-straight-win-c-22116855\" class=\"cta-a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the article<\/a>        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulldogs rookie set for AFL debut AFL Bulldogs rookie set for AFL debut By Marco Monteverde Rookie Louis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,15690,85],"class_list":["post-597098","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-louis-emmett","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597098","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=597098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}