{"id":338362,"date":"2025-12-10T01:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338362\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T01:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:16:18","slug":"ex-giant-finds-new-home-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338362\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Giant finds new home &#8211; AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/introducing-myteam-your-club-your-news-your-way-166070\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"327\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" style=\"float:right;\" class=\"my-team-banner promo-article-banner\" id=\"my-team-banner\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1764633130_359_ZH-InArticleMyTeamLink.png.webp.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sydney University have landed a major coup ahead of their 2026 campaign, signing former GWS Giants&#8217; big man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/lachie-keeffe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lachie Keeffe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>35-year-old Keeffe retired from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> football at the end of 2025 after 119 games for the Giants and Collingwood, spanning across 17 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The club said it was delighted to secure the utility&#8217;s signature as it looks to build on a fourth-place finish in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SUANFC is thrilled to welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/lachlan-keeffe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lachlan Keeffe<\/a> to the Club for the 2026 season,&#8221; a club post read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following an outstanding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> career, Lachie brings elite experience, leadership and professionalism to our program. We can&#8217;t wait to see the impact he&#8217;ll have both on and off the field as we chase success in 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Keeffe&#8217;s signing comes on the back of the club appointing former player and Division 1 coach Kyle Underwood as its new Premier Division Men&#8217;s coach earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Sydney University have landed a major coup ahead of their 2026 campaign, signing former GWS Giants&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-338362","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\/338362","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=338362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}