{"id":640447,"date":"2026-04-30T11:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/640447\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:20:19","slug":"afl-round-eight-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-the-mcg-in-melbourne-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/640447\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL round eight 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from the MCG in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collingwood are clinging to a five-point half-time lead, but almost everything is pointing towards Hawthorn getting the better of them.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks kicked the last three goals of the second quarter, including a scintillating effort from the incomparable Nick Watson, who put on the afterburners and dodged a diving Jack Crisp to smash through his first major of the night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Pies are only five points ahead at halftime, as a resurgent Hawthorn looms \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2fefb86b0101c0906f8cc1a95d25fbcb2df4bbfb.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>The Pies are only five points ahead at halftime, as a resurgent Hawthorn looms Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Pies have corrected their centre-bounce woes &#8211; winning all four clearances in there after losing all seven in the opening quarter &#8211; but Hawthorn are playing with more patience and dominating in the contest (71-48), which is not sustainable for Collingwood if they expect to win tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Jai Newcombe leads all players with seven contested possessions, but Finn Maginness and Ned Reeves also have six apiece.<\/p>\n<p>The Magpies weren\u2019t as efficient that quarter, either, including twice preferring to hand off to Dan Houston for running attempts instead of set shots &#8211; only for the ex-Power star to miss each time.<\/p>\n<p>A big second half awaits&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collingwood are clinging to a five-point half-time lead, but almost everything is pointing towards Hawthorn getting the better&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-640447","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\/640447","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=640447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}