{"id":700988,"date":"2026-05-28T23:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700988\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T23:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:14:11","slug":"st-kilda-vs-hawthorn-live-afl-round-12-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-marvel-stadium-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700988\/","title":{"rendered":"St Kilda vs Hawthorn LIVE: AFL round 12 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from Marvel Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawthorn will ask the AFL to explain why Nick Watson\u2019s goal was denied at half-time, with Hawks coach Sam Mitchell fuming over the call.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell said the decision to call play on because Watson went slightly wider, and made his shot more difficult, didn\u2019t display common sense.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nick Watson handballs against the Saints.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/18f3cd572d77237405926b6cd4742d1f9a271260.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Nick Watson handballs against the Saints.Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will certainly be going to the AFL to ask about it,\u201d Mitchell said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt makes sense to me that that is the rule on the other side of the ground for the right footers, but there is no reason that a player would go wider to give themselves an advantage and that is what the rule is there for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vision doesn\u2019t look like he went off the line by much, and that is the umpires\u2019 call but the fact that you can go off the line towards the boundary and it is called play on makes no common sense to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would hope we get an answer from the AFL, and I\u2019m sure they will [provide one]. When something doesn\u2019t make sense, they fix it pretty quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawthorn will ask the AFL to explain why Nick Watson\u2019s goal was denied at half-time, with Hawks coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-700988","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\/700988","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=700988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}