{"id":193482,"date":"2025-10-06T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/193482\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:47:09","slug":"fiorini-confirms-desire-to-join-dons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/193482\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiorini confirms desire to join Dons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Club will work to facilitate trade for 123-game winger.\n            <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Essendon is excited to confirm that Brayden Fiorini would like to play for the Bombers next season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Club will now work with the Gold Coast SUNS to facilitate a trade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although Fiorini entered this off-season as an unrestricted free agent, the Dons will opt to secure his services via trade, as to hold onto their compensation pick from Sam Draper\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A crafty winger who\u2019s also shown his capability as an inside midfielder, Fiorini established himself as a consistent performer on the Gold Coast over 10 seasons and 123 games, averaging 20 touches over 18 appearances this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fiorini appeared in each of the SUNS\u2019 first two finals in Club history this year, cementing his spot in the side once again through a blistering run of form in the second half of the campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His dominant 32-touch, one-goal effort against eventual premiers Brisbane in the round 20 QClash was a standout effort in a season that ranked among the 187cm talent\u2019s best to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Club will work to facilitate trade for 123-game winger. Essendon is excited to confirm that Brayden Fiorini would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-193482","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\/193482","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=193482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}