{"id":815715,"date":"2026-07-22T03:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/815715\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T03:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:25:12","slug":"how-jimmy-bartel-thinks-the-afl-couldve-promoted-wildcard-round-better-to-the-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/815715\/","title":{"rendered":"How Jimmy Bartel thinks the AFL could&#8217;ve promoted wildcard round better to the fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Bartel has explained how the AFL could\u2019ve sold wildcard round better to the fans.<\/p>\n<p>The Geelong great thought the messaging surrounding the concept and the marketing by the league was \u201cpoor\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can cough up a furball every now and then,\u201d Bartel said on Sports Today.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear how the AFL could\u2019ve promoted wildcard round better to the fans<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Images: Supplied, Josh Chadwick\/Getty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Bartel has explained how the AFL could\u2019ve sold wildcard round better to the fans. The Geelong great&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,14676,85],"class_list":["post-815715","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\/815715","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=815715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}