{"id":774080,"date":"2026-07-02T10:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/774080\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:37:11","slug":"geelong-cats-vs-brisbane-lions-live-afl-round-17-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-gmhba-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/774080\/","title":{"rendered":"Geelong Cats vs Brisbane Lions LIVE: AFL round 17 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from GMHBA Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the week, Lions coach Chris Fagan compared the battles between these two clubs to the clashes that occurred between tennis greats Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. His point was they won one, lost one, and it was entirely unpredictable who would prevail.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight will be the sixth time the Cats and the Lions have met since the start of last season, which includes last year\u2019s qualifying final and grand final.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bailey Smith returns from illness to take on the Lions\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/296fb7b60368e046d33d6cb74b7c4b7457bac425.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Bailey Smith returns from illness to take on the LionsAFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>The record is 3-2 in the Cats\u2019 favour, which, if it was tennis, would be enough to see them working off the court, but this is not best of five.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a cold, wet night at the Cattery with Geelong at full strength and Hugh McCluggage and Dayne Zorko the main men missing for the Lions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier in the week, Lions coach Chris Fagan compared the battles between these two clubs to the clashes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-774080","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\/774080","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=774080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}