{"id":627715,"date":"2026-04-24T10:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627715\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:58:11","slug":"afl-round-seven-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-the-mcg-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627715\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL round seven 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from the MCG in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noah Balta has leapt into a ruck contest and put his knee into the back of Dees star Max Gawn.<\/p>\n<p>It was a football play but that won\u2019t make Gawn\u2019s back feel any better \u2013 he looks in real discomfort but is trying to run it out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Max Gawn competes against Noah Balta in a ruck contest.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b58507500e8a70b54437a6c812bb579653c07824.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Max Gawn competes against Noah Balta in a ruck contest.AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was very slow getting up,\u201d Garry Lyon said of Gawn on Fox Footy.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Hugo Ralphsmith has booted a goal for the Tigers, who have been super this quarter. There was some concern his kick may have been touched off the boot, but it was ruled as a goal.<\/p>\n<p>Tigers 37, Dees 34 with 10 mins to go in Q2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noah Balta has leapt into a ruck contest and put his knee into the back of Dees star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-627715","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627715","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=627715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}