{"id":794972,"date":"2026-07-12T06:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T06:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/794972\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T06:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T06:22:16","slug":"afl-rd-18-live-updates-western-bulldogs-vs-west-coast-melbourne-vs-richmond-brisbane-vs-essendon-blog-scores-and-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/794972\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Rd 18 live updates: Western Bulldogs vs West Coast, Melbourne vs Richmond, Brisbane vs Essendon \u2014 blog, scores and stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lcimg-1ec4cb55-5320-411b-b88f-f73f0cf3b179.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"image_fluidImage__Sg10H\" data-component=\"LiveBlogPostImg\"\/>(AFL.com.au)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">There are no late changes for the final game of the round, and you can look at both line-ups above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">For the Lions, the ins outweigh the outs. Darcy Gardiner is a big miss from the backline with a hamstring injury, while James Tunstill is omitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">But into the side come Dayne Zorko and Hugh McCluggage, both keys to a potential Brisbane tilt at a third successive flag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">For Essendon, on the other hand, it is all change \u2014 or rather five changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Following on from the big loss to St Kilda a week ago, the Bombers have dropped key position player Ben McKay, along with Will Setterfield, Saad El-Hawli and Nik Cox, while Jordan Ridley has been managed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Into the line-up come Archie Roberts, Harrison Jones, Max Kondogiannis, Lachie Blakiston and Angus Clarke, who will play his first AFL game since the rescheduled match against Gold Coast at the end of last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(AFL.com.au) There are no late changes for the final game of the round, and you can look at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,21452,4026,24706,18597,4127,4125,588,85,13338,4126],"class_list":["post-794972","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-bombers","tag-bulldogs","tag-demons","tag-eagles","tag-lions","tag-live","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-tigers","tag-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794972","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=794972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}