{"id":69237,"date":"2025-08-15T03:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/69237\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T03:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:20:34","slug":"casino-lions-ready-to-roar-and-beat-demons-on-home-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/69237\/","title":{"rendered":"Casino Lions ready to roar and beat Demons on home ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_3943-1024x549.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68107\"  data-\/>Casino Lions AFL players are ready to roar this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Susanna Freymark<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a long time coming\u2026 for the first time in 20 years, Casino Lions Football Club will be playing Nimbin Demons on home turf at Queen Elizabeth Park this Saturday, August 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Casino footy players are pumped \u2014 the Northern Rivers AFL Competition includes Casino, Lismore, Nimbin, Ballina, Lennox Head, Byron Bay and Brunswick Heads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The comp runs for six weeks only and is designed to boost player numbers (and spectators) by hosting games at one location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This Saturday is Casino\u2019s turn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Richmond Valley Council has made sure the grounds are in pristine condition for the first AFL match to be played in a long time. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_3945-1024x632.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68109\"  data-\/>The footy field at QE2 is ready for the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Kickoff is at noon for Casino Lions vs Nimbin Demons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Lismore Swans vs Brunswick Bulldogs is at 1.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The canteen will be open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Head to QE2 for an afternoon of footy tomorrow, Saturday, August 16.<\/p>\n<p><img data-lazyloaded=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_3944-1024x772.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68108\"  data-\/>Photos: Contributed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Casino Lions AFL players are ready to roar this Saturday. Susanna Freymark It\u2019s been a long time coming\u2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,54823,9116,85],"class_list":["post-69237","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-casino-lions","tag-footy","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69237","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=69237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}