{"id":731560,"date":"2026-06-12T09:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731560\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T09:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:31:17","slug":"live-afl-2026-geelong-cats-vs-gold-coast-suns-round-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731560\/","title":{"rendered":"Live AFL 2026, Geelong Cats vs Gold Coast Suns Round 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geelong gun Jack Bowes has been ruled out with hamstring tightness an hour before the hosts\u2019 Friday night blockbuster against his former side Gold Coast at GMHBA Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Cats (8-5, 120.2%) have lost three of their last four encounters against the Suns, but are crucially still yet to lose to them at their home ground in eight clashes. Bowes underwent run-throughs on the ground two hours before the first siren, but will ultimately be replaced by George Stevens for his third AFL game.<\/p>\n<p>Watch every match of every round of the AFL Premiership Season LIVE and ad-break free during play on FOX FOOTY, available on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/en-AU\/welcome\/afl?extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkafl-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-afl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the travelling Suns (7-5, 112.2%) will be hellbent on replicating their stunning performance against Chris Scott\u2019s side in Opening Round, which saw them trump Geelong by 56 points in Carrara.<\/p>\n<p>Damien Hardwick made four changes \u2014 three forced \u2014 to his side from last week\u2019s Q-Clash, with Charlie Ballard the headline inclusion for his first AFL game in close to two months. For the Cats, five-time All-Australian Tom Stewart has entered concussion protocols and will miss, while Gryan Miers has been managed as he manages a partially torn ACL.<\/p>\n<p>Match details: Geelong Cats vs Gold Coast Suns from 7:40pm AEST at GMHBA Stadium<\/p>\n<p>Watch it live: On Fox Footy (Channel 504), and streaming on Kayo, from 6:30pm AEST<\/p>\n<p>Follow our live coverage of Geelong vs Gold Coast in our live blog below! Can\u2019t see the blog?<a href=\"https:\/\/go.arena.im\/live\/fox-sports-australia\/AFL20261402?v=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geelong gun Jack Bowes has been ruled out with hamstring tightness an hour before the hosts\u2019 Friday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[9126,638,64,63,689,55,639,11295,3423,260393,345042,70507,12923,8001,14385,2057,13659,27753,2105,2485,9130,4447,354093,2328,60271,142568,677,701,3595,85],"class_list":["post-731560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-adelaide-crows","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-king","tag-ben-waterworth","tag-carrara","tag-cats-gun","tag-charlie-ballard","tag-chris-scott","tag-concussion-protocols","tag-damien-hardwick","tag-europe","tag-geelong-cats","tag-george-stevens","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-gold-coast","tag-gold-coast-suns","tag-hamstring-tightness","tag-headline-inclusion","tag-italy","tag-jack-bowes","tag-match-details","tag-oceania","tag-queensland","tag-southern-europe","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731560","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=731560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}