{"id":200043,"date":"2025-10-09T09:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/200043\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:42:11","slug":"heath-makes-melbourne-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/200043\/","title":{"rendered":"Heath makes Melbourne home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Trade\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Max Heath is now a Demon, joining Melbourne on the fourth day of the Continental Tyres AFL Trade Period.\n            <\/p>\n<p>MAX HEATH is now a Demon, joining Melbourne on the fourth day of the Continental Tyres AFL Trade Period.<\/p>\n<p>The Dees secured the ruckman in a deal with St Kilda on Thursday afternoon in exchange for a future fourth-round selection (2027 AFL Draft).<\/p>\n<p>Heath arrives with four senior games to his name, having made his AFL debut earlier this year after being selected by the Saints in the 2021 mid-season draft.<\/p>\n<p>At 204cm tall, the 22-year-old is set to add to the Demons\u2019 ruck and forward stocks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re really excited to welcome a tall and physical player in Max to the club,\u201d Melbourne AFL List Manager Tim Lamb said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been impressed by Max\u2019s aerial presence and ruck craft, and we look forward to his continued development as a Demon, working alongside our existing rucks in Max Gawn and Tom Campbell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alongside his AFL appearances, Heath played 10 matches for Sandringham this past season, average 20 hitouts and 18 disposals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trade Max Heath is now a Demon, joining Melbourne on the fourth day of the Continental Tyres AFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-200043","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\/200043","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=200043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}