{"id":128278,"date":"2025-09-08T17:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128278\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T17:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:54:16","slug":"afl-journeyman-earns-new-deal-at-melbourne-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128278\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL journeyman earns new deal at Melbourne – AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the AFL’s most journeyed men, Tom Campbell<\/a>, has extended his career into 2026, with Melbourne recommitting to the ruckman for another 12 months.<\/p>\n

Campbell will enter his 15th season in the AFL<\/a>, but has largely spent his time in the reserves for the Western Bulldogs<\/a> (2012-2018), North Melbourne (2019-2021), St Kilda (2022-2024) and the Demons.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old is yet to debut for his fourth club, playing 58 games since he was drafted as a rookie in 2012 by the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n

Campbell’s experience has helped provide Max Gawn<\/a> a sounding board, as well as the litany of project talls at Melbourne.<\/p>\n

“Tom is a great competitor who gives his all every time he takes the field and gets the best out of those around him,” Melbourne AFL<\/a> List Manager Tim Lamb said.<\/p>\n

“He has been a fantastic role model for our younger players and provides great experience to our list. We are excited to have Tom continuing with us in 2026.”<\/p>\n

Calls on Charlie Spargo<\/a>, Harry Sharp<\/a>, Jack Billings<\/a>, Jack Henderson<\/a>, Judd McVee<\/a>, Kynan Brown<\/a>, Marty Hore<\/a>, Oliver Sestan<\/a>, Taj Woewodin<\/a>, Tom Fullarton<\/a> and Will Verrall<\/a> are yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the AFL’s most journeyed men, Tom Campbell, has extended his career into 2026, with Melbourne recommitting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-128278","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\/128278","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=128278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}