{"id":777850,"date":"2026-07-04T04:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/777850\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T04:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:39:13","slug":"afl-round-17-live-updates-hawthorn-vs-melbourne-gws-giants-vs-fremantle-gold-coast-vs-collingwood-richmond-vs-carlton-blog-scores-and-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/777850\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Round 17 live updates: Hawthorn vs Melbourne, GWS Giants vs Fremantle, Gold Coast vs Collingwood, Richmond vs Carlton \u2014 blog, scores and stats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AThe ground at York Park is not the best, but it doesn’t remotely begin to explain Hawthorn’s woeful first half (Getty Images\/AFL Photos)<\/p>\n

That half of football is over at York Park, and I don’t think there’s a soul at the ground or elsewhere that believes the scoreline at the long break.<\/p>\n

Melbourne leads by 77 points. SEVENTY SEVEN!!!<\/p>\n

The Demons have demolished Hawthorn over the first two quarters, smashing them at clearance AND at contested footy.<\/p>\n

Their options are endless, while the Hawks’ path to goal looks about as simple as getting through the eye of the needle.<\/p>\n

A seven goal to one first term has been followed by a six goal to none second term, and I don’t know what Sam Mitchell can do, but he and his Hawks have to do SOMETHING to stem the tide.<\/p>\n

The state of the ground in Launceston is more than a little rough, but it doesn’t remotely begin to explain that terrible first-half performance from the Hawks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ground at York Park is not the best, but it doesn’t remotely begin to explain Hawthorn’s woeful…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,9512,63,55,9117,639,3239,10133,10124,9130,46801,7492,160,7804,672,161,85],"class_list":["post-777850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-aussie-rules","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australian-rules","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-carlton-blues","tag-collingwood-magpies","tag-fremantle-dockers","tag-gold-coast-suns","tag-gws-giants","tag-hawthorn-hawks","tag-live-blog","tag-melbourne-demons","tag-richmond-tigers","tag-season","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777850","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=777850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}