{"id":659470,"date":"2026-05-09T08:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/659470\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:36:10","slug":"afl-round-nine-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-engie-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/659470\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL round nine 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from Engie Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a crisp May night at the MCG for Scott Pendlebury\u2019s record-equalling 432nd game.<\/p>\n<p>Pendlebury is warming up with his teammates about an hour from the start of the game. Just over an hour from the first bounce, he\u2019s wearing the warm-up top, shorts and tights on his legs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Scott Pendlebury of the Magpies with Barry Carp - president and Craig Kelly - Collingwood CEO.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/723aeb5c6922889bf7432e0d7e6523632b18a1b9.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Scott Pendlebury of the Magpies with Barry Carp &#8211; president and Craig Kelly &#8211; Collingwood CEO.AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Standing just outside the 50-metre line, he\u2019s not going a whole heap, chatting to teammates while flipping the Sherrin in his hand.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no curtain-raiser, so many of the crowd are either on their way in or having dinner and drinks in the many establishments near this magnificent venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a crisp May night at the MCG for Scott Pendlebury\u2019s record-equalling 432nd game. Pendlebury is warming up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-659470","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\/659470","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=659470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}