{"id":644474,"date":"2026-05-02T07:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T07:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644474\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T07:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T07:47:24","slug":"live-afl-2026-geelong-cats-vs-north-melbourne-kangaroos-round-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644474\/","title":{"rendered":"Live AFL 2026, Geelong Cats vs North Melbourne Kangaroos, Round 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Melbourne will test their 2026 form against a Geelong outfit looking to rebound from last week\u2019s shock loss, having not won against the powerhouse for an incredible 14 matches since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The Cats (4-3, 108.6%) regain defensive duo Sam de Koning and Jake Kolojdashnij for the clash against the Kangaroos (4-3, 115.9%), who lost George Wardlaw out of their line-up on Friday due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>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? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/en-AU\/welcome\/afl?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkafl-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-afl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776909012_441_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Match details: Geelong vs North Melbourne from 4:35pm AEST at GMHBA Stadium<\/p>\n<p>Watch it live: On Fox Footy (channel 504), and streaming on Kayo, from 4pm AEST<\/p>\n<p>Follow our coverage of Geelong vs North Melbourne in our live blog below!<\/p>\n<p>If you can\u2019t see the blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/go.arena.im\/embed?publisher=fox-sports-australia&amp;event=AFL20260806&amp;token=null&amp;v=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">tap here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Melbourne will test their 2026 form against a Geelong outfit looking to rebound from last week\u2019s shock&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,689,55,639,42255,1127,13659,14414,12160,647,7204,677,311796,311797,26498,85,660],"class_list":["post-644474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-bailey-smith","tag-fox-footy","tag-geelong-cats","tag-george-wardlaw","tag-jake-soligo","tag-melbourne","tag-north-melbourne-kangaroos","tag-oceania","tag-outfit-looking","tag-score-review","tag-shock-loss","tag-sports","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644474","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=644474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}