Meanwhile, Hawthorn survived a stiff test against North Melbourne<\/a> before running out 14.15 (99) to 12.11 (83) winners in Tasmania.\u00a0<\/p>\n In a curtain-raiser for the AFLW season, Australia recorded a 13.13 (91) to 6.5 (41) win against Ireland<\/a> at North Sydney Oval as Jasmine Garner was named the Player of the Match.<\/p>\n Follow the live blog below, keep up to date with all the latest stats in our ScoreCentre<\/a>, and tune in to our live radio coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 12:57pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 12:57pm<\/p>\n AFL round 21, AFLW Australia vs Ireland \u2014 Saturday live scoreboardAFLAFLW<\/p>\n FINAL: AUSTRALIA 13.13 (91) – IRELAND 6.5 (41)<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:47pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:47pm<\/p>\n 3QT: Carlton 18.9 (117) leads Brisbane 11.9 (75) Give Josh Fraser the Carlton job now!<\/p>\n Honestly, it would be madness at this point to go with anyone else, especially with these results he’s pulling out.<\/p>\n The Blues have been absolutely sensational tonight, and the dual reigning premiers have not had any answers.<\/p>\n They hammer home another six goals in that quarter to turn an 18-point half-time lead into a 42-point three-quarter time lead.<\/p>\n The scoreline in that quarter read 6.2 to 2.2 Carlton’s way and this result appears to be a formality now.<\/p>\n What a boon this is for Carlton’s wildcard hopes and what a blow it is for Brisbane’s hopes of a top-two finish.<\/p>\n George Hewett and Lachie Neale tied for leading ball-winners with 23 touches apiece, and they’ve also combined for 13 clearances, with Hewett grabbing six while Neale has seven.<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:47pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:47pm<\/p>\n McGovern with a remarkable goal off the ground!<\/p>\n This is the type of night Carlton is having!<\/p>\n Mitch McGovern plays the role of the rover at a boundary throw-in, and he chases a loose ball while completely blanketed by Eric Hipwood.<\/p>\n The ball sits up nicely and McGovern sticks out his left boot and makes decent enough contact to get it to creep through the goals.<\/p>\n Carlton out to a game-high 42-point lead now. Incredible.<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:38pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:38pm<\/p>\n Hewett with the quick response for Carlton!<\/p>\n The Blues continue to rain goals on the Lions at Docklands!<\/p>\n George Hewett snaps one home on his left boot after a good quick handball from Matt Cottrell and that’s goal number 17 for Carlton.<\/p>\n Those 17 goals have come with six minutes left in the third quarter. Quite remarkable scoring from the Blues tonight.<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:36pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:36pm<\/p>\n Cameron sneaks one home from close range<\/p>\n Geez, Brisbane’s kicking from set shots tonight sure is shoddy!<\/p>\n Charlie Cameron takes a brilliant mark just metres out from goal, and he’s snapping on the left foot from the tight angle and almost blows it.<\/p>\n Cameron’s got 2.2 for the night and Brisbane trims the margin to 30 points.<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:35pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:35pm<\/p>\n McKay goals from inside the square as pressure pays off<\/p>\n Carlton’s forward 50 pressure has been absolutely manic tonight and it leads to another goal!<\/p>\n Conor McKenna is trapped by Lewis Young and a Blues player nearby takes the advantage and snaps towards goal where Harry McKay takes a mark on the goal line.<\/p>\n The Blues are leading the clearance count 8-2 for the quarter, including a 4-0 smashing out centre bounces.<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:33pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:33pm<\/p>\n Rayner fails to strike after dumping tackle free<\/p>\n Cam Rayner misses a set shot from virtually directly in front to leave the Lions 2.6 on set shots tonight. That’s compared to Carlton’s mark of 9.2.<\/p>\n It’ll be interesting to see how the MRO looks at that tackle from Harry Dean on Rayner because there was definitely potential for injury there even though Rayner is fine to continue.<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:29pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:29pm<\/p>\n Lohmann fails to back up his trash talk<\/p>\n There are Bronx cheers from Carlton’s fans as Kai Lohmann misses a set shot that he probably should’ve kicked.<\/p>\n A little bit of feeling between these two teams right now.<\/p>\n Lohmann got right in the face of Matt Cottrell after Cottrell gave away a free kick inside defensive 50.<\/p>\n The Lions are desperately looking for anything to get themselves activated tonight.<\/p>\n Sam Walsh finds himself topless in the midst of all that argy bargy.<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:25pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:25pm<\/p>\n Florent unloads from long range to keep Blues in control<\/p>\n There’s no signs of slowing down from Carlton tonight!<\/p>\n Ollie Florent finds himself in acres of space outside 50 and runs a few metres inside and slots it.<\/p>\n Florent’s also up to 17 touches now and he’s also got four score involvements and three intercepts.<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:22pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:22pm<\/p>\n Rayner responds after Carlton’s fast start to the third term<\/p>\n Cam Rayner with a much-needed goal to keep the Lions within striking distance.<\/p>\n Rayner’s goal comes after Talor Byrne and Ben Ainsworth struck in quick succession in the opening few minutes of the third term.<\/p>\n Chris Fagan won’t be happy with how his side came out of the break with the Blues recording 12 of the first 13 disposals in the third quarter.<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:09pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:09pm<\/p>\n FT: GWS Giants 10.15 (75) defeat Port Adelaide 9.9 (63) It wasn’t pretty but that is a HUGE win for the Giants!<\/p>\n The Giants were held goalless for the final quarter, but the Power weren’t fully able to capitalise, kicking just 1.4 for themselves.<\/p>\n That means the Giants move up to 36 premiership points, keeping in touch with the wildcard teams, although they’re still on the outside looking in from 12th on the ladder.<\/p>\n Lachie Whitfield finishes with an equal game-high 29 touches, tied with Port’s Jason Horne-Francis, who was also brilliant once again, with seven clearances as well.<\/p>\n Jake Stringer, who is still unsigned for next season, finishes with 3.3 from 15 touches, while Stephen Coniglio also added three goals.<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:07pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:07pm<\/p>\n Time running out now for Port Adelaide<\/p>\n We’re into the final two minutes here and GWS is clinging to a two-goal lead.<\/p>\n Port has had 17 inside 50s to seven in this final term, but it’s yielded just one goal. That’s not a winning equation.<\/p>\n Xavier Bamert and Mitch Georgiades with two misses over the last few minutes.<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:02pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 9:02pm<\/p>\n Five minutes to go in Adelaide as Power push<\/p>\n It’s turned into a proper war of attrition at the Adelaide Oval as we tick into the final five minutes.<\/p>\n Port has kicked 1.2 for the quarter, GWS 0.5.<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 8:58pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 8:58pm<\/p>\n HT: Carlton 12.7 (79) leads Brisbane 9.7 (61) It’s been an absolute track meet at Docklands as Carlton takes a three-goal lead into the main break.<\/p>\n The Blues led by as many as 36 points at one point in that quarter, but the Lions appear to have steadied going into the half.<\/p>\n Will Ashcroft with some inspirational stuff, kicking two majors while also running down Jagga Smith in the middle of the ground in that final minute.<\/p>\n Smith has put together a quite brilliant half of football. He leads all players with 17 touches and also has five clearances and an equal game-high eight score involvements.<\/p>\n Lachie Neale is Brisbane’s leading ball-winner with 16 disposals and he’s also picked up six clearances.<\/p>\n The Lions will need more of that from their Brownlow Medal-winning champion in the second half to continue this comeback.<\/p>\n What a game.<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 8:55pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 8:55pm<\/p>\n Georgiades has the first goal of the final quarter<\/p>\n Port right back in this one at the Adelaide Oval folks!<\/p>\n Mitch Georgiades picks up a ground ball and snaps beautifully on the right foot from 45m out to get the huge first goal of the final term.<\/p>\n The margin down to 13 points with 10 minutes left, plenty of time for the comeback here.<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 8:54pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 8:54pm<\/p>\n Ashcroft snaps home another one before half-time<\/p>\n Here come the reigning premiers!<\/p>\n Will Ashcroft snaps one home from close range under heavy, heavy pressure to trim the margin to 19 points with 42 seconds left in the second quarter.<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 8:53pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 8:53pm<\/p>\n Ashcroft makes it two straight goals for Brisbane<\/p>\n Will Ashcroft rams one home from a handball from Lachie Neale and the Lions aren’t going away!<\/p>\n Another bad turnover from the Blues as an inbound kick is chopped off at a horrible spot on the ground.<\/p>\n Ashcroft has 13 touches and four score involvements go along with that goal.<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 8:49pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 8:49pm<\/p>\n Cameron with a brilliant finish from the pocket<\/p>\n And this is exactly why you cannot count out Brisbane here.<\/p>\n Charlie Cameron drills a beautiful goal from the pocket for a much-needed goal for the Lions.<\/p>\n They wouldn’t be too concerned with their own scoring feats, it’s the inability to stop them from going in at the other end that is the main problem.<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 8:47pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 8:47pm<\/p>\n Dean snaps home the first goal of his AFL career!<\/p>\n ABSOLUTE SCENES AT DOCKLANDS!<\/p>\n Jagga Smith with another score involvement as he dishes off a handball under pressure and Harry Dean snaps this one home on the left boot!<\/p>\n It’s absolute bedlam at Docklands Stadium as Dean is mobbed by his teammates and Josh Fraser can’t do anything but laugh in the coaches box.<\/p>\n The Blues are up by six goals on the dual reigning premiers! Who’d have thought?!<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 8:44pm<\/p>\n Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 8:44pm<\/p>\n Smith with the quick answer to Lohmann’s goal<\/p>\n Jagga Smith kicks Carlton’s 11th goal of the half to continue a monster first half!<\/p>\n A good shepherd in the square from Brodie Kemp, who stopped Eric Hipwood from spoiling the ball before it could sail through the goals.<\/p>\n Smith’s goal cancels out Kai Lohmann’s earlier goal which had snapped a run of six straight goals for the Blues.<\/p>\n The Lions haven’t been cut open like this since the Giants hammered them by 86 points earlier this season.<\/p>\n Show more posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlton explodes for 12 goals in the first half against Brisbane as GWS picks up a hard-fought road…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,9512,63,55,9117,639,3237,3239,46801,7492,160,7204,12104,161,85,26889,7200],"class_list":["post-837697","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-brisbane-lions","tag-carlton-blues","tag-gws-giants","tag-hawthorn-hawks","tag-live-blog","tag-north-melbourne-kangaroos","tag-port-adelaide-power","tag-season","tag-sports","tag-st-kilda-saints","tag-sydney-swans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837697","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=837697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ollie](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lcimg-8cb7cae1-dfc3-4de4-a32a-e38261db39aa.jpeg\")
Ollie Florent kicked one of Carlton’s six goals in the third quarter to put the Blues in the driver’s seat against the Lions. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n![\"Jason](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lcimg-e4b6a491-c550-4931-b1a5-f119aa2363c6.jpeg\")
Jason Horne-Francis and Port Adelaide’s desperate comeback attempt from GWS fell short. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n![\"Harry](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lcimg-ce7644a8-d76c-426d-9b03-4457ffa89d4b.jpeg\")
Harry Dean provided one of the moments of the first half with his first AFL goal in the second quarter. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n
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