{"id":601408,"date":"2026-04-12T04:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601408\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T04:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:52:09","slug":"afl-round-five-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-norwood-oval-at-gather-round-in-adelaide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601408\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL round five 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from Norwood Oval at Gather Round in Adelaide"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The dam has burst has finally burst, later than predicted, but soon enough for Geelong to take a stranglehold of their Gather Round clash with West Coast at Norwood.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles held sway narrowly entering time-on in the second term, after seven lead changes, before the Cats turned it on with five unanswered goals in time-on.<\/p>\n<p>Mark O\u2019Connor, who was rested for the Easter Monday blockbuster against Hawthorn, has enjoyed a great return, slotting a career-best three goals already. The Irishman could face MRO scrutiny, though, after he collected Willem Duursma\u2019s jaw after electing to bump.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey Smith, who had a dominant opening quarter, was quelled to a degree in the second by Deven Robertson\u2019s run-with role, but Max Holmes, Tom Atkins and Tanner Bruhn filled the void through, outmuscling the Eagles through the middle during Geelong\u2019s match-turning purple patch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The dam has burst has finally burst, later than predicted, but soon enough for Geelong to take a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-601408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601408","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=601408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}