{"id":218517,"date":"2025-10-16T20:01:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218517\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:01:23","slug":"lions-delist-midfielder-but-eagles-await-as-a-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218517\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions delist midfielder but Eagles await as a free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Brisbane has officially delisted Deven Robertson ahead of his expected move to West Coast\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Deven Robertson during the Round 22 match between Brisbane and Adelaide at The Gabba, August 12, 2023. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>BRISBANE has officially delisted Deven Robertson, leaving the 24-year-old able to explore a move to West Coast as a delisted free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson has been connected to the Eagles as he looks for more senior opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Western Australia, he was selected by the Lions with pick 22 in the 2019 draft and played 47 games in his six seasons in Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>WHO&#8217;S CALLED IT QUITS <a title=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/news\/retirements-and-delistings\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/news\/retirements-and-delistings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-outlook-id=\"e7f829d9-626a-401e-ab6f-41010efd3250\">2025&#8217;s retirements and\u00a0delistings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A powerfully-built midfielder, Robertson turned down an offer to move home and join West Coast at the end of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>However, senior appearances then dwindled with the club&#8217;s recruitment of youngsters Will and Levi Ashcroft, and Jaspa Fletcher.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;Dev has given his all during his time at the Brisbane Lions which saw him play some strong football including being part of our 2023 Grand Final team,&#8221; Brisbane list manager Dom Ambrogio said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At VFL level this year he has been one of our best players as a joint winner of the Club&#8217;s VFL Best and Fairest.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>&#8220;Though having only played six AFL games the past two seasons, we supported Dev in his decision to seek further opportunities which he has chosen to do.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>&#8220;We thank Dev for his contribution to the Brisbane Lions and wish him well for the future.&#8221;<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Robertson leaves the Lions on good terms and thanked the club for his time there.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>&#8220;I am very grateful to the club for giving me the opportunity of being in the AFL for the past six years,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>&#8220;I am sad to be leaving and will miss the playing group and staff, but it is the right time in my career to look for more AFL opportunities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane has officially delisted Deven Robertson ahead of his expected move to West Coast Deven Robertson during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-218517","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","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218517","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=218517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}