{"id":334597,"date":"2025-12-08T09:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334597\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T09:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:11:11","slug":"demons-lose-defender-for-start-of-next-afl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334597\/","title":{"rendered":"Demons lose defender for start of next AFL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Melbourne defender Jake Bowey will be forced to undergo foot surgery, ruling him out for the start of the next AFL season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The premiership player will be sidelined for six months, in a significant blow to the Demons under new coach Steven King.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bowey, 23, had a career-best season this year, finishing fourth in Melbourne&#8217;s best-and-fairest voting. He played all 23 games, taking his career total to 84.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This is a really unfortunate injury for Jake, who hurt his foot during a recent training session, with scans confirming a Lisfranc injury,&#8221; Melbourne football boss Alan Richardson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jake will have surgery in the coming days &#8230; we will ensure Jake receives all the support he requires throughout his recovery period.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne defender Jake Bowey will be forced to undergo foot surgery, ruling him out for the start of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,54514,64,63,55,639,25040,647,85,186758],"class_list":{"0":"post-334597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-alan-richardson","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-australian-football-league","13":"tag-australianfootballleague","14":"tag-jake-bowey","15":"tag-melbourne","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-the-demons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334597","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=334597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}