{"id":640694,"date":"2026-04-30T14:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/640694\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:14:13","slug":"afl-round-eight-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-the-mcg-in-melbourne-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/640694\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL round eight 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from the MCG in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collingwood skipper Darcy Moore has spoken after a nail-biting final few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Moore dropped an intercept mark attempt in the dying seconds of the final quarter and tackled his Hawks opponent Dylan Moore high, resulting in a free kick.<\/p>\n<p>When asked how he was feeling, Moore was honest.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Darcy Moore gave away a free kick with seconds on the clock to give the Hawks a chance to tie the game.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777558453_748_89206b69c71d74bbd36192d36cb1a3e63a5dfea0f463e499707b75c1c1ba691f.gif\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Darcy Moore gave away a free kick with seconds on the clock to give the Hawks a chance to tie the game.Seven<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah f&#8211;k, sorry, excuse my language,\u201d he said on Fox Footy. \u201cYeah, feels pretty raw mate, we did so much right to win that game and get the four points, and instead we walk away with two. That\u2019s footy sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt stings mate, but a lot to like out of that game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moore said he was proud of his group and asked if he would have preferred extra time over a draw, he said, \u201cAsk the fans\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collingwood skipper Darcy Moore has spoken after a nail-biting final few minutes. Moore dropped an intercept mark attempt&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-640694","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\/640694","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=640694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640694\/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=640694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}