{"id":640527,"date":"2026-04-30T12:19:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/640527\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:19:27","slug":"afl-round-eight-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-the-mcg-in-melbourne-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/640527\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL round eight 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from the MCG in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another electric Nick Watson moment in the dying seconds of the third quarter leads to a Hawks goal \u2013 just in time \u2013 to Calsher Dear, which gives the brown and gold their first lead at a break, but a deserved one.<\/p>\n<p>The opportunistic Pies have somehow remained in this contest despite managing only 23 inside 50s to three-quarter-time.<\/p>\n<p>Hawthorn had the first eight inside 50s of the second half, but failed to score from any of them, before Collingwood kicked two goals from their first two chances.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been that sort of night, with the Hawks frittering away chances then watching the Pies be ruthlessly efficient (12.3 to 11.11), including a brilliant 50-metre finish from Nick Daicos during the third term.<\/p>\n<p>Hawthorn are dominating the clearances (29-16, including 15-4 out of the centre) and in the contest (99-75), as they have all night, but now they need to make it count on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another electric Nick Watson moment in the dying seconds of the third quarter leads to a Hawks goal&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-640527","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\/640527","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=640527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640527\/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=640527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}