{"id":897594,"date":"2026-09-19T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897594\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T09:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:52:10","slug":"hawthorn-vs-brisbane-lions-live-afl-preliminary-final-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-the-mcg-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897594\/","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>Hawthorn are only 20 points behind, but it feels like 50 after the Lions turned it on in a classic premiership quarter.<\/p>\n<p>So, what can the Hawks do to give themselves a realistic shot at a grand final berth from here?<\/p>\n<p>Shut down the Lions\u2019 centre clearances for a start. Then recapture the run through the midfield that set up their lead in the opening half.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, once they start moving the ball, lower the eyes. They resorted to long, high bombs during the third term that were easily picked off by Lions superstar Harris Andrews.<\/p>\n<p>They have to remember they have Nick Watson. He is a ground-ball dynamo, not a towering mark. They should start pumping in dirty balls, otherwise it will be game over, if it is not already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawthorn are only 20 points behind, but it feels like 50 after the Lions turned it on in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-897594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897594","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=897594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}