GEELONG has farewelled rookies Xavier Ivisic and Patrick Retschko after announcing the duo would not be offered AFL contracts for next season.<\/p>\n
Ivisic and Retschko were both taken by the Cats in the 2024 Rookie Draft and were regular names at VFL level in 2025.<\/p>\n
Ivisic played 13 VFL games, averaging 15 disposals and kicking five goals for the season. The midfielder forward is a Geelong local, having played for the Falcons and being recruited from Bell Park.<\/p>\n
Retschko averaged 21 disposals in his 18 VFL matches, also managing 13 goals. The utility was drafted from St Kilda City and also played for the Oakleigh Chargers.<\/p>\n
The list changes follow the retirement of Cats legend Mitch Duncan<\/a>, who finishes his career after 16 seasons, 305 games and two premierships.<\/p>\n Duncan has now agreed to an assistant coaching role in his home state of Western Australia with the West Coast Eagles.<\/p>\n The free agency window opened last week, and former Hawk and Geelong local James Worpel has signed with the Cats.<\/p>\n The tough midfielder comes across after 148 games with Hawthorn, including his club Best and Fairest award in 2019. Worpel is also a former Geelong Falcons<\/a> premiership captain and played junior footy at Bell Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n The AFL trade period ends on Wednesday, October 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GEELONG has farewelled rookies Xavier Ivisic and Patrick Retschko after announcing the duo would not be offered AFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-198320","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\/198320","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=198320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}