{"id":646374,"date":"2026-05-03T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646374\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:00:11","slug":"live-afl-2026-sydney-swans-vs-melbourne-demons-round-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646374\/","title":{"rendered":"Live AFL 2026, Sydney Swans vs Melbourne Demons, Round 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruck stars Max Gawn and Brodie Grundy collide as Sydney will look to move back into top spot on the ladder when it hosts a much-improved Melbourne at the SCG on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The Swans (6-1, 178.1%) regain Isaac Heeney but lose Tom McCartin as they search for their fifth-straight win in Grundy\u2019s 250th AFL game. Meanwhile Steven King\u2019s Demons (5-2, 102.8%) regain Harrison Petty as they try and claim a third consecutive victory and top four spot.<\/p>\n

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Match details: Sydney v Melbourne from 3:15pm AEST at the SCG<\/p>\n

Watch it live: On Fox Footy (channel 504), and streaming on Kayo, from 2:45pm AEST<\/p>\n

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If you can\u2019t see the blog, tap here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruck stars Max Gawn and Brodie Grundy collide as Sydney will look to move back into top spot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,689,55,639,684,12124,30195,3239,2105,12097,7804,673,677,312779,312778,85,26889,670,7200,312780,14359,16690],"class_list":["post-646374","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-ben-cotton","tag-brodie-grundy","tag-cameron-spencer","tag-carlton-blues","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-max-gawn","tag-melbourne-demons","tag-new-south-wales","tag-oceania","tag-ruck-stars","tag-ruck-superstars","tag-sports","tag-st-kilda-saints","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-swans","tag-sydney-v","tag-tom-mccartin","tag-top-spot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646374","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=646374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}