{"id":341712,"date":"2025-12-11T21:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341712\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:50:09","slug":"melbourne-msd-pens-monster-deal-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341712\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne MSD pens monster deal &#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>Melbourne announced the re-signing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/daniel-turner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Turner<\/a> to a four-year deal, extending him until the end of 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Turner joined the Demons via the 2021 Mid-Season Draft, but made his debut the following season against Collingwood in the King&#8217;s Birthday Clash.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Albury product has quickly made inroads into the senior side, playing 15 games in 2024 before featuring 19 times last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Daniel works incredibly hard on his game, and he has developed into a real asset for us,&#8221; Melbourne List Manager Tim Lamb said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His competitiveness, ability to win critical contests, and the way he supports his teammates have all taken significant steps forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are thrilled Daniel has committed to the club long term. He&#8217;s an important part of our future, and we have great confidence in the player he is becoming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Turner is set to lead a new era in defence under coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/coaches\/steven-king\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steven King<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the Demons will be without dashing defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/jake-bowey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Bowey<\/a> for the first half of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Bowey will be sidelined after suffering a serious foot injury in pre-season, which is set to see him sidelined for approximately six months.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a watch on veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/jack-viney\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Viney<\/a>, who has been struck down with Achilles soreness. He will be managed until the Christmas break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne announced the re-signing of Daniel Turner to a four-year deal, extending him until the end of 2030.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-341712","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\/341712","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=341712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}