{"id":947907,"date":"2026-10-31T19:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T19:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947907\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T19:04:11","slug":"aflw-round-12-geelong-cats-lock-in-a-top-two-finish-league-stars-call-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947907\/","title":{"rendered":"AFLW Round 12: Geelong Cats lock in a top-two finish; league stars call time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED: The AFL confirmed to AAP that Cats forward Rachel Kearns\u2019s viral double solo against the Western Bulldogs on Friday was illegal.<\/p>\n<p>A solo is a Gaelic football skill which involves a player kicking the ball to themselves while running, and essentially replaces a bounce.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>But the spokesperson said that solos don\u2019t count as a bounce in the AFL and the Bulldogs should have been paid a free kick as Kearns\u2019s blistering run exceeded the 15m threshold.<\/p>\n<p>Gold Coast have also been slapped with a $10,000 suspended sanction.<\/p>\n<p>Dekota Baron left their round 11 clash after copping a head knock, and the forward returned to the field although she hadn\u2019t been given the green light from the AFL Review Centre (ARC) to come back.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Suns said the communication from the ARC was not immediately seen, and once they received the information, Baron was taken off.<\/p>\n<p>AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATED: The AFL confirmed to AAP that Cats forward Rachel Kearns\u2019s viral double solo against the Western Bulldogs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-947907","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\/947907","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=947907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}