{"id":228977,"date":"2025-10-21T03:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/228977\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T03:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:09:07","slug":"hawks-defender-delisted-after-28-games-in-five-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/228977\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks defender delisted after 28 games in five seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Seamus Mitchell has been delisted by the Hawks\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Seamus Mitchell warms up before Hawthorn&#8217;s clash against the Western Bulldogs in round 13, 2025. Picture: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>HAWTHORN has delisted defender Seamus Mitchell, the seventh departure from the Hawks this off-season.<\/p>\n<p>Pick 29 in the 2020 draft, Mitchell did not make his debut until 2023 and played 28 senior games in his five seasons at the Hawks, including four this year.<\/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=\"07a7eea4-2b78-4a22-acf5-8c717051064e\">2025&#8217;s retirements and\u00a0delistings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mitchell&#8217;s departure follows the delistings of Sam Frost and Jasper Scaife, while fellow defenders Changkuoth Jiath (Melbourne) and Jai Serong (Sydney) were traded last week.<\/p>\n<p>Midfielder James Worpel has joined Geelong as a free agent, while Luke Breust has retired.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks did not pick up any new players in the recent trade period, with their attempts to sign Zach Merrett from Essendon falling short.<\/p>\n<p>                    Seamus Mitchell in action for Box Hill on August 31, 2024. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s always a difficult time of the year and these decisions are never easy, but we\u2019d like to acknowledge Seamus&#8217; contribution to the club,&#8221; Hawks list boss Mark McKenzie said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was a respected teammate who showed great resilience and commitment over his five seasons at Hawthorn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wish him all the best for his next chapter.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seamus Mitchell has been delisted by the Hawks Seamus Mitchell warms up before Hawthorn&#8217;s clash against the Western&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-228977","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\/228977","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=228977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}