{"id":855832,"date":"2026-08-15T05:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T05:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/855832\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T05:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T05:58:10","slug":"watch-live-pies-final-vfl-clash-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/855832\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH LIVE: Pies final VFL clash of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Live\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Watch as the Pies take on Port Melbourne.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Wil Parker is among the inclusions for Saturday afternoon&#8217;s final game of the 2026 VFL season, when the Pies take on Port Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/vfl\/matches\/8542\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&gt;&gt;&gt; WATCH THE CLASH LIVE AND FREE FROM 2:05PM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Parker headlines four changes from last week&#8217;s one-point loss to Essendon, with fellow AFL-listed players Joel Cochran and Harry DeMattia also among the ins.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth inclusion is Gus Kennedy, a Dandenong Stingrays draft prospect.<\/p>\n<p>Zavier Maher, Josiah Landy, Jake Watts and Xavier Laverty go out of the side.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Despite sitting 16th on the ladder, the Pies have been in brilliant form throughout the back half of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Before last week&#8217;s heartbreaking single digit loss, the Pies enjoyed a three-match winning streak, including toppling ladder-leaders Geelong at GMHBA Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Port Melbourne sit 10th on the ladder heading into Saturday&#8217;s match, with the first ball up scheduled for 2:05pm at ETU Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The two Clubs&#8217; VFLW sides will take the field earlier in the day as part of a double-header.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/vfl\/matches\/8542\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&gt;&gt;&gt; WATCH THE CLASH LIVE AND FREE FROM 2:05PM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smithy\u2019s VFL Round 21<br \/>Port Melbourne v Collingwood<br \/>Saturday 15 August, 2:05pm (AEST)<br \/>ETU Stadium, Melbourne (Wurundjeri)<\/p>\n<p>FB<br \/>\nG.Kennedy<br \/>\nI. Smit<br \/>\nJ. Ryan<\/p>\n<p>HB<br \/>\nO. Faulkhead<br \/>\nW. Parker<br \/>\nJ. Cochran<\/p>\n<p>C<br \/>\nJ. Saxena<br \/>\nB. Grey<br \/>\nT. Woewodin<\/p>\n<p>HF<br \/>\nH. Demattia<br \/>\nJ. Browne<br \/>\nL. Sullivan<\/p>\n<p>FF<br \/>\nJ. Buller<br \/>\nM. Podhajski<br \/>\nH. Coe<\/p>\n<p>FOLL<br \/>\nB. Teakle<br \/>\nT. Prindable<br \/>\nW. Phillips<\/p>\n<p>INT<br \/>\nH. Mahoney<br \/>\nH. Kennedy<br \/>\nM. Lewis<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nM. Mahoney<br \/>\nL. Quaynor<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Live Watch as the Pies take on Port Melbourne. Wil Parker is among the inclusions for Saturday afternoon&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-855832","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\/855832","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=855832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}