{"id":764997,"date":"2026-06-28T03:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T03:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/764997\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T03:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T03:37:11","slug":"shane-mcinnes-slams-the-afls-ridiculous-fixture-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/764997\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane McInnes slams the AFL&#8217;s &#8216;ridiculous&#8217; fixture idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the week, the AFL presented four different fixture options for when the 19th team enters the competition at the CEO conference on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p>On 3AW Football, Shane McInnes weighed in on the proposed fixture options.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is by far the dumbest, most ridiculous idea,\u201d McInnes said on 3AW Football.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to listen to the FULL conversation<\/p>\n<p>Image: Mark Kolbe\/AFL Photos\/via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the week, the AFL presented four different fixture options for when the 19th team enters the competition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,14676,85],"class_list":["post-764997","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\/764997","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=764997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}