{"id":317533,"date":"2025-11-30T00:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T00:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317533\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T00:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T00:40:13","slug":"afl-signings-in-ovens-and-murray-league-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317533\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL signings in Ovens and Murray League &#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\/10\/ZeroHanger_GamesCentre.png.webp.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former St Kilda defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/jimmy-webster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Webster<\/a> has signed with Ovens and Murray Football League club Lavington for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>The gritty, team-first veteran retired from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> following the conclusion of the 2025 season, with 180 games to his belt after being drafted in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With 180 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> games of experience for St Kilda across 14 seasons, Jimmy brings an incredible level of experience, leadership and professionalism to our club,&#8221; a club statement on social media read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are extremely lucky to have someone of Jimmy&#8217;s calibre who is genuinely excited to be part of the &#8216;Lavi&#8217; community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t wait to see him running around at the Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A huge welcome as well to his beautiful family; wife Racheal and their boys Angus and Flynn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Webster played alongside Panthers coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/adam-schneider\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Schneider<\/a> during the early years of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> career.<\/p>\n<p>Lavington finished second in the league in 2025, before bowing out of the finals in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"ZOWsIMSXTU1kf5yu_0FhAg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2219780294\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the Ovens and Murray League, reigning premier Wangaratta Rovers have signed former Geelong AFL-listed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/mitch-hardie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitch Hardie<\/a> on a two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Hardie averaged 26 disposals and kicked 29 goals through 18 games for Casey in 2025 as one of the premier midfielders of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Known for his contested strength, composure in traffic and elite football IQ, Mitch brings leadership, maturity and high level experience into the brown and gold,&#8221; a club statement read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re excited to not only welcome Mitch to the club but also his partner and family, who we look forward to having as part of our Rovers community.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former St Kilda defender Jimmy Webster has signed with Ovens and Murray Football League club Lavington for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-317533","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\/317533","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=317533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}