{"id":603050,"date":"2026-04-13T00:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/603050\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T00:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:26:10","slug":"matthew-richardson-ranks-the-best-eight-teams-in-the-afl-after-five-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/603050\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Richardson ranks the best eight teams in the AFL after five games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"EN-US\">Early predictions are already starting to take shape in the AFL, following the completion of Gather Round in Adelaide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\">And Richmond great Matthew Richardson has weighed in, ranking his top eight teams following the conclusion of Round 5.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0Press PLAY to find out Richo\u2019s FULL rankings\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cThey\u2019ve been a bit of a tease for a few years so you gotta earn that trust,\u201d Richo said on 3AW Football about one team.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\">Image: Jonathan DiMaggio\/AFL Photos\/via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early predictions are already starting to take shape in the AFL, following the completion of Gather Round in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,14676,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-603050","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-football-featured","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603050","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=603050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}