{"id":93722,"date":"2025-08-25T03:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93722\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T03:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:18:08","slug":"collingwood-v-adelaide-on-thursday-night-brisbane-lions-v-geelong-on-friday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93722\/","title":{"rendered":"Collingwood v Adelaide on Thursday night, Brisbane Lions v Geelong on Friday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tickets for the qualifying finals will go on sale this Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Magpies can expect a hostile reception in Adelaide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5moyr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">following the Izak Rankine controversy, where the Crows star was last week suspended for four games for a homophobic slur.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the Crows snapped a 10-game losing streak against the Magpies, they will now be without one of their most important players potentially for the entire finals campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell is confident his team can win four straight finals in September to win the flag, having missed a top-four berth. The Hawks are 1-5 outside of Victoria and Tasmania this season, the one victory coming against Sydney in Opening Round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve all been close ones. That\u2019ll turn. We\u2019ll probably play interstate in our first final, so odds are in our favour,\u201d Mitchell said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not writing ourselves off. We\u2019re disappointed, but excited. We get to play four finals instead of three now. Finals footy for the second year in a row, which is great for our group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks have lost to Fremantle, Adelaide and now the Lions over the past seven weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Keep up to date with the best AFL coverage in the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p56jp7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for the Real Footy newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tickets for the qualifying finals will go on sale this Thursday. The Magpies can expect a hostile reception&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-93722","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\/93722","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=93722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}