AFL Beat 2026 – Round 1 Recap!

The AFL season is finally underway for ALL teams as the ones that missed it last week finally got to play. If you guessed that a losing coach this week said the ones that played last week had an unfair advantage, please go ahead and claim your prize. Let’s go!

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The AFL Ladder

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Round 1 Results

Round 1 Highlights and Placeholder Videos

Round 2 Schedule

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AFL Footy Tipping Contest Results

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Notes and Comments

I know it’s SUPER early in the season, but your top three right now look unbeatable. All of them blew out their opponents this week. Perhaps most impressive was Sydney’s huge win over the reigning champions.

Gold Coast beat the crap out of West Coast as expected, but they have the look of a team that is going places. If they can continue to accumulate points against weak opponents, a Top Four spot is theirs.

The GWS Giants, on the other hand, succumbed to the Western Bulldogs and didn’t really put up much of a fight. Yes, it’s a given that their full squad is not healthy, but they got trucked by the Doggies. Western has now beaten Brisbane and GWS and look to be for real.

Brisbane has now run into buzzsaws two weeks in a row. Is it the opponents or is there perhaps a championship hangover? Having your captain and star player involved in a sleazy extramarital affair during the off-season couldn’t have helped.

Finally, the surprise of the week was North Melbourne bearing the crap out of Port Adelaide. Maybe they are on their way back from the bottom of the ladder? At least for one week, they looked good, which should make Roos fans happy.

It was a great week for Spammy in the AFL Tipping Competition as he takes over first place. Next week, we have some teams on bye, so it will be another weird week, but we should be back to normal soon. Don’t forget to put the tips in!

If you are a member of an AFL club or you got a Watch AFL membership, you should be able to watch every AFL and AFLW game, including replays. Game times vary between Australian afternoon and evening, which actually makes it easier for us in North America to watch as the games can be seeing in the evenings on Pacific Time and early mornings on Eastern time.

If you haven’t become a member of a club or signed up for the Watch AFL app, you can still watch the AFL and AFLW games in the USA on either FS1 or FS2 and in Canada on TSN. Showtimes can be found here on the Australian Football Association of North America website. But I do recommend that you join a club. It’s fun and they send you free shit.

See you next week!