{"id":186585,"date":"2025-10-03T03:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/186585\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T03:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:31:07","slug":"essendon-rocketing-into-promience-in-race-to-secure-key-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/186585\/","title":{"rendered":"Essendon &#8216;rocketing into promience&#8217; in race to secure key Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essendon has \u2018rocketed into prominence\u2019 in the race to lure a highly-rated Gold Coast midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Victorian players are currently chasing the signature of under-contract Sam Flanders, who is currently exploring his options ahead of the trade period beginning on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear Xander McGuire\u2019s FULL trade period update on 3AW<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>And Channel 7 reporter Xander McGuire said that while St Kilda is also well in the frame to sign the midfielder, Essendon was also circling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bombers have rocketed into prominence (in the race to secure Sam Flanders),\u201d he said on 3AW Afternoons.<\/p>\n<p>Image: Matt Roberts\/AFL Photos\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essendon has \u2018rocketed into prominence\u2019 in the race to lure a highly-rated Gold Coast midfielder. Multiple Victorian players&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,14676,85],"class_list":["post-186585","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-football-featured","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186585","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=186585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}