{"id":190282,"date":"2025-10-04T21:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T21:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190282\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T21:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T21:18:08","slug":"tasmania-devils-afl-dream-becomes-reality-the-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190282\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmania Devils&#8217; AFL dream becomes reality | The Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">The club has already signed its first player, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.examiner.com.au\/story\/9077694\/tasmania-devils-to-name-first-vfl-player-create-ireland-link\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\">Tasmanian Jye Menzie<\/a>, and its recruiters are now openly mapping out a squad and searching for a senior coach. The AFL has granted Tasmania unprecedented access to talent, including multiple early draft picks, the ability to sign out-of-contract AFL players, and the opportunity to lure them with millions of dollars in a bonus salary pool. They&#8217;ll have flexibility in list size, academy access, and even pre-draft rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The club has already signed its first player, Tasmanian Jye Menzie, and its recruiters are now openly mapping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-190282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190282","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=190282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}