{"id":845698,"date":"2026-08-06T14:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845698\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T14:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:42:13","slug":"afl-news-2026-north-melbourne-vs-western-bulldogs-result-video-highlights-alastair-clarkson-top-eight-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845698\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL news 2026: North Melbourne vs Western Bulldogs result, video, highlights; Alastair Clarkson top eight streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Melbourne <\/a>have ended a horror seven-year losing streak with a 15.10 (100) – 11.11 (77)<\/a> win against the eighth-placed Western Bulldogs<\/a> to keep themselves in the hunt for the AFL finals. <\/p>\n

Alastair Clarkson<\/a>\u2019s men came out of the blocks hot at Marvel Stadium leading 5.0 (30) – 1.1 (7) at one stage of the first quarter. <\/p>\n

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Finn O\u2019Sullivan and Zac Banch of the Kangaroos celebrate.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

By the end of the quarter that margin had shortened to 21 points. When both sides went to the main break, the lead was 10.2 (62) – 5.6 (36). <\/p>\n

North Melbourne\u2019s lead continued to shrink as the match went on, leaving fans in the stands more anxious.<\/p>\n

At the final break, the Kangaroos were only leading by 10 as the Bulldogs started to believe. <\/p>\n

The final quarter started horribly for North Melbourne when Sam Davidson scored a goal, with the camera panning to a furious Clarkson in the box. <\/p>\n

However, the Kangaroos rallied to secure their first win since 2019 against the Bulldogs. It was also the club\u2019s first win against a top-eight side under Clarkson\u2019s reign, who previously had one draw and 37 losses. <\/p>\n

The match finished with Luke Parker<\/a> kicking a snap and saluting the crowd as the 13th-placed Kangaroos keep pressure on clubs in the wildcard spots. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a huge win for Alastair Clarkson, under pressure, he\u2019s had the toughest job in football the last three or four years and this is credit for all his hard work,\u201d David King said on Fox Footy. <\/p>\n

George Wardlaw, who hadn\u2019t played since round 17, was the star with King full of praise. <\/p>\n

\u201cI tell you what, the North Melbourne Football Club is a different team with George Wardlaw, they play with anger that seemed to disappear when he\u2019s not in this team,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt needs to be studied, it needs to be looked at … he drags this midfield to another level. <\/p>\n

Wardlaw collected 19 touches, one goal, three tackles and six clearances from 57 per cent of time on ground. <\/p>\n

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George Wardlaw of the Kangaroos is challenged by Marcus Bontempelli.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The midfielder put the team\u2019s incredible display down to \u201cshinboner acts\u201d. <\/p>\n

Paul Curtis kicked four goals for the Kangaroos while Caleb Daniel had 33 disposals. <\/p>\n

Curtis also described Wardlaw as a \u201cmaniac\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe brings so much grit into our midfield … I\u2019m happy he\u2019s back,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Melbourne have ended a horror seven-year losing streak with a 15.10 (100) – 11.11 (77) win against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-845698","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845698","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=845698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}