{"id":149721,"date":"2025-09-17T12:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149721\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:34:06","slug":"crows-midfielder-ruck-not-offered-new-contracts-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149721\/","title":{"rendered":"Crows midfielder, ruck not offered new contracts for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The Crows have announced two more delistings\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Harry Schoenberg is tackled by Oliver Florent during the match between Adelaide and Sydney at Adelaide Oval in round 14, 2024. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>ADELAIDE has told midfielder Harry Schoenberg and ruck Kieran Strachan that they won&#8217;t be offered new contracts for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Schoenberg, 24, played 62 games for the Crows over six years after being selected at pick No.24 in the 2019 draft.<\/p>\n<p>WHO&#8217;S CALLED IT QUITS <a title=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/news\/retirements-and-delistings\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/news\/retirements-and-delistings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-outlook-id=\"5d794f20-6947-486f-9fb6-f78bdd540aa0\">2025&#8217;s retirements and\u00a0delistings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He played just one senior match this season as the tactical substitute in the round 23 win over Collingwood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Across his six years at the club, Harry has always showcased a strong work ethic and been a popular figure among players and staff,&#8221; list boss Justin Reid said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever comes next, we wish Harry all the best for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Strachan was moved to the inactive list in February due to a foot injury and was subsequently ruled out for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old will remain at the Crows as a coach for the AFLW side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kieran&#8217;s selfless decision earlier this year to be placed on the inactive list should never be forgotten,&#8221; Reid said.<\/p>\n<p>                    Brodie Grundy and Kieran Strachan compete in the ruck during the R14 match between Sydney and Adelaide at Adelaide Oval on June 15, 2024. Picture: Getty Images\/AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It summed him up perfectly as a person, team-first and willing to do anything to help the side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve loved having him for the past seven years and look forward to still seeing him around the club with the AFLW team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/news\/1421638\/adelaide-crows-small-forward-lachlan-murphy-delisted-after-120-games-irishman-karl-gallagher-also-axed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lachlan Murphy and Karl Gallagher were delisted<\/a> on Tuesday, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/news\/1404043\/former-all-australian-adelaide-crows-bf-winner-matt-crouch-retires-due-to-hip-issue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Matt Crouch has retired<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Crows have announced two more delistings Harry Schoenberg is tackled by Oliver Florent during the match between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-149721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149721","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=149721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}