{"id":704628,"date":"2026-05-30T16:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704628\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:28:11","slug":"western-bulldogs-vs-collingwood-live-afl-round-12-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-marvel-stadium-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704628\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Bulldogs vs Collingwood LIVE: AFL round 12 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from Marvel Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collingwood coach Craig McRae may \u201crelease the shackles\u201d and push his side to play faster after their five-goal final term against the Bulldogs on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>While the Bulldogs won by four points, McRae is asking how he can get his side playing regularly like they did in the final term as they look for a formula that can take them to the finals.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ed Allan gets a kick away under pressure.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b3dba318e35b6da032eb722bf15a6dd7dd6a8795.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Ed Allan gets a kick away under pressure.AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe kicked 5.5 in the last quarter. There are a lot of questions in the room about why don\u2019t we play like that all the time,\u201d McRae said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if they needed to play faster, or with more of a carefree attitude, McRae said he wasn\u2019t against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collingwood coach Craig McRae may \u201crelease the shackles\u201d and push his side to play faster after their five-goal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-704628","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\/704628","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=704628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}