{"id":763341,"date":"2026-06-27T08:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763341\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T08:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:24:15","slug":"collingwood-magpies-vs-richmond-tigers-live-afl-round-16-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-the-mcg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763341\/","title":{"rendered":"Collingwood Magpies vs Richmond Tigers LIVE: AFL round 16 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from the MCG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The despair from the first nine games of the season under Michael Voss has become a distant memory for the Blues, who made it six from six under their interim coach with a 53-point victory over West Coast on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>There was no harmonica in the team song, but the Blues faithful were in full voice in the aisles at Marvel Stadium after young gun Jagga Smith signed off on another four points with a goal right on the final siren.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Josh Fraser was all smiles yet again on Saturday.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2a8224bc0261d4364fbb00ba929b20f2d3bbb37d.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Josh Fraser was all smiles yet again on Saturday.Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The wildcard berth that seemed a pipedream just a few weeks ago is edging closer to reality for the Blues, who have the chance to square the ledger at 8-8 next week if they account for Richmond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s awesome,\u201d Carlton skipper Patrick Cripps told Fox Footy. \u201cHow the year was going, to put ourselves back in a respectable position on the ladder to attack the back half of the season is huge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWinning\u2019s fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.watoday.com.au\/sport\/afl\/sweet-six-the-josh-fraser-juggernaut-at-carlton-just-continues-to-roll-20260627-p60alj.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The despair from the first nine games of the season under Michael Voss has become a distant memory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-763341","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\/763341","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=763341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}