{"id":881002,"date":"2026-09-05T14:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/881002\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T14:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:14:14","slug":"afl-live-crows-fans-stand-for-their-coach-as-the-bulldogs-season-ends-in-an-elimination-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/881002\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL LIVE: Crows fans stand for their coach as the Bulldogs\u2019 season ends in an elimination final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bulldogs skipper Marcus Bontempelli cut a disappointed figure post game after his side fell short in their elimination final against the Crows tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Bontempelli praised his side for fighting back into the game early in the last term before the Crows kicked away at the end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt definitely does [hurt] mate,\u201d Bontempelli told Seven.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought we really challenged them at certain points. We clearly couldn\u2019t make enough of our entries and they are a very good intercept marking team, if you allow them to do it, then they can repel off the back of it and, gee, they have some mercurial players who can really hurt you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud of the boys. We weren\u2019t going all that well halfway through the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found some grit to get in this position and even in that game, I don\u2019t think we looked too far off it despite the margin.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulldogs skipper Marcus Bontempelli cut a disappointed figure post game after his side fell short in their elimination&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-881002","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\/881002","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=881002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}