{"id":276106,"date":"2025-11-10T20:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276106\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T20:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:17:13","slug":"theyre-back-pre-season-resumes-as-players-hit-the-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276106\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re back! Pre-season resumes as players hit the track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                Essendon players in action at pre-season training on November 10, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>PREPARATIONS for the 2026 season are well and truly underway.<\/p>\n<p>Monday marked the first day of pre-season for first-to-fourth-year players at clubs who missed finals in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Just 44 days after Brisbane crushed Geelong in the Grand Final, players hit the track on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>And in the next fortnight, they will be joined by several new faces, with the Telstra AFL Draft to be held on November 19-20.<\/p>\n<p>Check out some of the pre-season action below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essendon players in action at pre-season training on November 10, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos PREPARATIONS for the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":["post-276106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276106","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=276106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}