{"id":612654,"date":"2026-04-17T09:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612654\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:43:11","slug":"live-afl-2026-geelong-cats-vs-western-bulldogs-round-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612654\/","title":{"rendered":"Live AFL 2026, Geelong Cats vs Western Bulldogs Round 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geelong will be on the hunt to give 300-gamer Mark Blicavs<\/a> the ultimate milestone victory on Friday night, as they host an undermanned Western Bulldogs outfit at GMHBA Stadium.<\/p>\n

The Cats (3-2, 101.5%) will be without key half-forward Gryan Miers for the clash as he manages a knee niggle, but Chris Scott\u2019s side will still be able to replenish on talent.<\/p>\n

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Captain Patrick Dangerfield returns from a frustrating calf complaint, while Blicavs and Jack Martin come back into the fold after being managed for Gather Round last Sunday.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Bulldogs (4-1, 120.7) come in as the higher-ranked side for tonight\u2019s clash, but no doubt the underdogs as star ruck Tim English sits on the sidelines for a second straight week with an MCL complaint.<\/p>\n

Inside midfielder Tom Liberatore returns from a hamstring injury, and is joined by Lachie Jaques and SSP signing Will Lewis in a trio of inclusions.<\/p>\n

Josh Dolan has been omitted, while Connor Budarick and Harvey Gallagher will miss through injury. Despite a grim ankle roll last week, Ed Richards will still front up to take on the hosts.<\/p>\n

The Round 6 match begins at 7:20pm local time. Watch it live on Fox Footy (channel 504), and streaming on Kayo, from 6:30pm AEST.<\/p>\n

Follow our live coverage of Geelong vs Western Bulldogs in our blog below! Can\u2019t see the blog?Click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geelong will be on the hunt to give 300-gamer Mark Blicavs the ultimate milestone victory on Friday night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,3533,64,63,689,55,639,42255,3423,12923,297558,297559,224644,13658,13659,2105,297555,4517,247388,27763,241333,247000,19051,5093,7198,297554,677,39209,297557,297556,85,19065,660,698],"class_list":{"0":"post-612654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-athletics-background","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","13":"tag-australian-football-league","14":"tag-australianfootballleague","15":"tag-bailey-smith","16":"tag-ben-waterworth","17":"tag-chris-scott","18":"tag-english-sits","19":"tag-frustrating-calf-complaint","20":"tag-game-career","21":"tag-geelong","22":"tag-geelong-cats","23":"tag-getty-images-inc","24":"tag-grim-ankle-roll","25":"tag-hamstring-injury","26":"tag-harvey-gallagher","27":"tag-jack-martin","28":"tag-josh-dolan","29":"tag-lachie-jaques","30":"tag-mark-blicavs","31":"tag-match-centre","32":"tag-michael-willson","33":"tag-milestone-victory","34":"tag-oceania","35":"tag-patrick-dangerfield","36":"tag-rare-underdog-role","37":"tag-servant-reaches","38":"tag-sports","39":"tag-tom-liberatore","40":"tag-victoria","41":"tag-western-bulldogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612654","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=612654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}