{"id":759483,"date":"2026-06-25T14:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759483\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:07:14","slug":"afl-news-2026-brisbane-lions-score-big-win-sydney-swans-harris-andrew-comments-chad-warner-goal-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759483\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL news 2026: Brisbane Lions score big win Sydney Swans, Harris Andrew comments, Chad Warner goal video"},"content":{"rendered":"

In front of a roaring home crowd at the Gabba, Brisbane<\/a> reignited their season with a commanding 43-point victory over the second-placed Sydney Swans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Lions made sure any comeback from the Swans was utterly smothered from the opening bounce, taking an 19.12 (126) to 12.11 (83) victory. <\/p>\n

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Brisbane found their feet against Sydney. \u00a0Chris Hyde<\/p>\n

The desperation was palpable as early as the second term, with the Swans growing visibly frustrated under Brisbane\u2019s relentless pressure, the tension boiling over in a scuffle just before half-time.<\/p>\n

Not only does Sydney lose out of four points, they now lose a crucial chance to knock off AFL<\/a> ladder-leaders Fremantle.<\/p>\n

Brisbane handed the Swans their third consecutive loss and sent warning shots to the rest of the competition that the reigning champions are back after their bye. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe hit a bit of a patch a couple of weeks ago and last two weeks before the bye, we were able to resurrect a bit,\u201d skipper Harris Andrews said. <\/p>\n

\u201cGood time for the bye to come and get a little bit fresher and a few bodies back, good to build from that. They play a very strong handball-style game, you got to be really tough…and they made it really hard.\u201d <\/p>\n

Despite the heavy defeat, Sydney\u2019s Chad Warner provided the individual highlight of the night. Warner kicked the goal of the game before half-time, being able to race clear and speed down the middle to kick a goal from 40m out. <\/p>\n

\u201cWaner\u2019s been best in ground, in a six goal loss,\u201d said King on Fox Footy. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s just in great form is Chad Warner, disappointed by their (Sydney\u2019s) output but that guy could not have done any more.\u201d <\/p>\n

Brisbane now heads down to the Cattery to play Geelong<\/a> next Thursday and Sydney plays the Western Bulldogs<\/a> next Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In front of a roaring home crowd at the Gabba, Brisbane reignited their season with a commanding 43-point…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-759483","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\/759483","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=759483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}