{"id":204124,"date":"2025-10-10T23:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T23:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/204124\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T23:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T23:46:08","slug":"delisted-demon-exploring-afl-comeback-afl-trade-news-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/204124\/","title":{"rendered":"Delisted Demon &#8220;exploring&#8221; AFL comeback: AFL trade news &#8211; AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/games-centre\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"305\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" style=\"float:right;\" class=\"play-games-banner\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752988028_499_ZeroHanger_GamesCentre.png.webp.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently-axed midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/jack-billings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Billings<\/a> has highlighted his intentions to continue his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> career after being delisted following an underwhelming stint with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/teams\/melbourne-demons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne Demons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Billings impressed in a 10-season tenure with St Kilda before departing via a trade in the 2023 trade period to the Demons, where he then played 17 senior matches over the following two years.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old, who was taken with Pick 3 in the 2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/afl-draft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL Draft<\/a>, played 155 games for the Saints, with his final years at St Kilda plagued by injury before the move to the Dees.<\/p>\n<p>However, Billings had just a sole appearance at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> level this year, in Round 3 against Gold Coast, despite quashing the several health concerns that disrupted his final years at Moorabbin.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of his limited opportunity, Billings sees his time at Melbourne in a positive light and believes there is proof he can contribute at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> level consistently from his time there, with his injury concerns becoming a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI loved my time at the Dees,\u201d Billings told\u00a0AFL Trade Radio\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently-axed midfielder Jack Billings has highlighted his intentions to continue his AFL career after being delisted following an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-204124","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\/204124","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=204124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}