{"id":835527,"date":"2026-07-31T11:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/835527\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T11:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:39:19","slug":"afl-live-updates-fremantle-dockers-vs-western-bulldogs-at-perth-stadium-blog-scores-and-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/835527\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL live updates: Fremantle Dockers vs Western Bulldogs at Perth Stadium blog, scores and stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lcimg-dfadc6f2-4c5b-4071-9ef5-e4426d930687.jpeg\" alt=\"Luke Jackson\" class=\"image_fluidImage__Sg10H\" data-component=\"LiveBlogPostImg\"\/>(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Freo lead the inside 50 count 25-14, and that is how the game has felt. The Dockers have owned the territory, the Bulldogs have struggled to get the ball forward, and yet the scores are dead level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">That speaks to the quality of the Bulldogs&#8217; defence and their ability to take chances. But it also feels like it&#8217;s going to break at some point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Dockers are the best second half team in the league. Last week they led the Eagles by eight points at half-time and won it by 70.\u00a0 Two weeks ago they hadn&#8217;t kicked a goal at halftime against the Swans and then kicked 15 in the second on the way to victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The hard work is only just beginning for the Dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Getty Images) Freo lead the inside 50 count 25-14, and that is how the game has felt. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,10993,10992,160,46,21224,85,698],"class_list":["post-835527","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-dockers","tag-fremantle","tag-live-blog","tag-perth","tag-round-21","tag-sports","tag-western-bulldogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835527","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=835527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}