2025’s retirements and\u00a0delistings<\/a><\/p>\nOriginally from North Hobart, Menzie will return home and be part of the Devils’ VFL campaign in 2026.<\/p>\n
“I am a proud Tasmanian, and I cannot wait to be involved in the build of the club from the ground up,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I am really looking forward to getting in on the ground floor and being back in Tassie and getting stuck into training.<\/p>\n
“I have learned a lot during my career so far, and particularly during my time in the AFL, I am really eager to share my learnings and continue to grow whilst being back on home soil.”<\/p>\n
The AFL confirmed this month that Tasmania will field teams in both the VFL and VFLW in 2026.<\/p>\n
Former Richmond player Jeromey Webberley will coach the Devils next season as the club gears up for its AFL debut in 2028.<\/p>\n
The Devils in May secured the services of gun recruiter Derek Hine, who spent more than two decades at Collingwood and put together premiership-winning lists.<\/p>\n
Derek Hine and Todd Patterson after their appointments as Tasmania’s Head of Recruiting and Head of List Management & Strategy. Picture: Tasmania FC<\/p>\n
Tasmania’s licence for entry into the AFL and AFLW in 2028 is contingent on the construction of a new stadium in Hobart.<\/p>\n
The contentious project must be voted through both houses of state parliament to get the green light.<\/p>\n
It has the support of the Liberal government and Labor opposition but needs the backing of several independents to get through the upper house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Devils have announced the signing of former Bombers forward Jye Menzie Jye Menzie celebrates a goal during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-179960","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\/179960","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=179960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}