{"id":897534,"date":"2026-09-19T08:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T08:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897534\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T08:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T08:32:11","slug":"hawthorn-vs-brisbane-lions-live-afl-preliminary-final-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-the-mcg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897534\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawthorn vs Brisbane Lions LIVE: AFL preliminary final 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from the MCG"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Jack Gunston continues to defy both age and game trends.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran Hawk plays like an old-fashioned forward, staying close to goal rather than pressing up the ground into defence. It then opens up a hole in front that Harris Andrews is not falling back to fill at this stage. It will be an interesting watch as the game progresses, as he boots his third goal.<\/p>\n<p>Lachie Neale started the second term on the pine, but has now entered the fray and doesn\u2019t appear to be showing any lingering effects of the heavy hit at the start of the game. He might be needed, too, because the Lions have started to fall behind.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks now lead by 16 points \u2013 their biggest advantage of the game so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Gunston continues to defy both age and game trends. The veteran Hawk plays like an old-fashioned forward,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-897534","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\/897534","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=897534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}