{"id":730257,"date":"2026-06-11T19:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730257\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T19:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:20:39","slug":"how-jimmy-bartel-would-fix-the-afls-mid-season-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730257\/","title":{"rendered":"How Jimmy Bartel would fix the AFL&#8217;s mid-season &#8216;madness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AFL have scheduled a two-day conference on the Gold Coast on June 22, with all chief executives invited to speak about the key issues across the competition.<\/p>\n<p>On Sports Today, Jimmy Bartel has put forward an array of ideas to fix the heavily criticised mid-season bye rounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s just fix the mid-season madness,\u201d Bartel said on 3AW Football.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to listen to the FULL conversation<br \/>Image: James Wiltshire\/AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The AFL have scheduled a two-day conference on the Gold Coast on June 22, with all chief executives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,14676,85],"class_list":["post-730257","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-football-featured","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730257","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=730257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}