{"id":333815,"date":"2025-12-08T00:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333815\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T00:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:14:11","slug":"brisbane-lions-premiership-star-re-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333815\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane Lions premiership star re-signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The back-to-back premiers have had another win this off-season, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/brisbane-lions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brisbane Lions<\/a> extending the contract of young star Darcy Wilmot until the end of 2029.<\/p>\n<p>Wilmot has added on another two years to his current deal, after already being contracted through 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old has been a revelation for Chris Fagan&#8217;s side since debuting in 2022, quickly emerging as a damaging ball user off half-back.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025 Wilmot averaged a career-high 20.3 disposals, moving the ball at an impressive 80.5 per cent disposal efficiency, while polling 22 coaches votes.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/port-adelaide\/news\/zak-butters-trade-contract-port-adelaide-current-situation-worst-afl\/d61f6b277655f8f22bd9be80\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Is Port Adelaide cooked? Zak Butters contract situation leaves Power in worst AFL position<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lions&#8217; fan will now nervously await a decision from out of contract superstar Zac Bailey, whose contract is set to expire at the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey&#8217;s future is set to be a big talking point next season, with the 26-year-old set to be chased by multiple Victorian powerhouses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The back-to-back premiers have had another win this off-season, with the Brisbane Lions extending the contract of young&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-333815","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\/333815","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=333815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}