{"id":856253,"date":"2026-08-15T14:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T14:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/856253\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T14:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T14:48:14","slug":"hawthorn-vs-collingwood-live-afl-round-23-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-the-mcg-melbourne-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/856253\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawthorn vs Collingwood LIVE: AFL round 23 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from the MCG, Melbourne Demons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Magpies coach Craig McRae didn\u2019t hide his emotions after the draw tonight, and he thinks his young side will take plenty from it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are close aren\u2019t we? You look from our lens, and we have five players under 10 games, and we are playing pretty much their full-strength team \u2013 apologies if I have disrespected someone who is out,\u201d McRae said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Magpies coach Craig McRae clapped his hands and fired up the club\u2019s faithful after their second draw against the Hawks this season.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/290ff0209bb02d8a4e68db61d121a1d7b9243d06.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Magpies coach Craig McRae clapped his hands and fired up the club\u2019s faithful after their second draw against the Hawks this season.Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just so proud of our group. We continue to go to another level of spirit and fight. We don\u2019t give up and our youth were the energisers in that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeau McCreery had a great game, but Sam Swadling had 29 disposals off half-back and what has he played? Four games. Charlie West is getting the ball, and Hayesy [Will Hayes] is kicking goals for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Magpies coach Craig McRae didn\u2019t hide his emotions after the draw tonight, and he thinks his young side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-856253","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\/856253","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=856253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}