{"id":705963,"date":"2026-05-31T08:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/705963\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T08:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:48:14","slug":"melbourne-vs-gws-giants-live-afl-round-12-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-tio-traeger-park-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/705963\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne vs GWS GIANTS LIVE: AFL round 12 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from TIO Traeger Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melbourne have copped a mid-season reality check at their home away from home in Alice Springs, suffering a 49-point defeat to an impressive Greater Western Sydney on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Demons have dropped consecutive matches for the first time in the Steven King era after a narrow loss to Western Bulldogs a week earlier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"GWSGWS celebrate a dominant win AFL Photos<\/p>\n

There were similarities in this defeat with the inefficiencies that regularly plagued them under previous coach Simon Goodwin.<\/p>\n

The match slipped away from Melbourne in a five-goals-to-two third quarter despite going inside 50 18 times to the Giants\u2019 seven, after they slashed the margin to 12 points with the last two goals of the first half.<\/p>\n

But King also would have been disappointed with an insipid final quarter that saw the margin become a blowout.<\/p>\n

GWS were slick in transition, and punished the Demons for their waywardness on the way to an important 19.5 (119) to 9.16 (70) victory ahead of their bye next week.<\/p>\n

Finn Callaghan, Harvey Thomas, Connor Idun, Toby Greene and Lachie Ash were outstanding for the Giants.<\/p>\n

After obliterating reigning premiers Brisbane with a 14-goal third term a week earlier, Adam Kingsley\u2019s Giants appear to be putting an inconsistent start behind them to climb inside the top 10.<\/p>\n

Jack Steele was Melbourne\u2019s leading ball-winner with 25 disposals, 13 contested possessions and four clearances, while fellow recruit Brody Mihocek kicked three goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne have copped a mid-season reality check at their home away from home in Alice Springs, suffering a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-705963","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\/705963","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=705963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}