{"id":614422,"date":"2026-04-18T05:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614422\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:15:23","slug":"live-afl-2026-gold-coast-suns-vs-essendon-bombers-round-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614422\/","title":{"rendered":"Live AFL 2026, Gold Coast Suns vs Essendon Bombers Round 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gold Coast welcomes back a star duo to help them return to the winners\u2019 list as they host an Essendon side with a rare spring in their step this Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Follow our live coverage of Gold Coast vs Essendon in our blog below! Can\u2019t see the blog?Click here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Watch every match of every round of the AFL Premiership Season LIVE and ad-break free during play on FOX FOOTY, available on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Suns (3-2, 132%) are coming off back-to-back losses after a hot start to their season, but will fancy themselves with the inclusions of superstar recruit Christian Petracca from injury and Bailey Humphrey from suspension.<\/p>\n

Jake Rogers and Oscar Adams have also been called upon, with all of captain Noah Anderson, Sam Clohesy, Lachlan Gulbin and Alex Davies coming out \u2014 the former with an appendix issue.<\/p>\n

As for Brad Scott and his travelling Bombers (1-4, 76%), they\u2019re coming off their first win of 2026 in Gather Round that subsequently ended the equal-club record of 17 straight losses.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve made just the one change to their side that beat Melbourne, with Saad El-Hawli brought in to replace a managed Jaxon Prior.<\/p>\n

MATCH CENTRE: Gold Coast vs Essendon live scores, stats and more<\/a><\/p>\n

The Round 6 match begins at 1:15pm local time at People First Stadium. Watch it live on Fox Footy (channel 504), and streaming on Kayo, from 12:30pm AEST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gold Coast welcomes back a star duo to help them return to the winners\u2019 list as they host…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-614422","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\/614422","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=614422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}