\n Announcement\n <\/p>\n
\n Geelong Cats has confirmed further changes to its AFL playing squad ahead of the 2026 season\n <\/p>\n
Geelong Cats has confirmed further changes to its AFL playing squad ahead of the 2026 season.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Club thanks Ted Clohesy for his contribution to the Cats, with the midfielder told he would not be offered a contract for 2026.<\/p>\n
Clohesy departs after 12 AFL games across the past three years at the Cats. He earned his AFL debut in Round 24 of the 2023 season and played a further 11 games for the Cats at AFL level, including nine in 2025.<\/p>\n
Across 11 VFL games this season, Clohesy averaged 28.6 disposals, eight tackles and 6.5 clearances a game, while also contributing on the scoreboard with eight goals across the season, finishing seventh in the Cats\u2019 VFL Best & Fairest count.<\/p>\n
Geelong Cats General Manager of Football Andrew Mackie thanked Clohesy for his time at the Club.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTed has had a positive impact at the Club and has been a consistent performer at VFL level, finishing runner-up in our best and fairest in 2024 and placing in the top 10 again this season,\u201d Mackie said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would like to thank Ted for his contribution to our football program and wish him all the best in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Cats have also delisted George Stevens and Keighton Matofai-Forbes, with the Club committed to re-drafting them in next month\u2019s Rookie Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Announcement Geelong Cats has confirmed further changes to its AFL playing squad ahead of the 2026 season Geelong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231396,"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-231395","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\/231395","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=231395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}