{"id":344279,"date":"2025-12-13T00:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344279\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T00:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:38:19","slug":"retired-eagles-great-joins-wa-club-in-off-field-role-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344279\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Eagles great joins WA club in off-field role &#8211; AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>The 2025 WAFL premiers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/wafl\/south-fremantle-bulldogs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Fremantle Bulldogs<\/a>, have acquired the services of legendary West Coast midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/andrew-gaff\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Gaff<\/a> for the 2026, with the 33-year-old set to join his former club as its Performance and Wellbeing Coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Before his illustrious 280-game career with West Coast truly kicked off, Gaff played seven games with South Fremantle in 2011, meaning his new role sees him reunite with the Red V after 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>The dual All-Australian and 2015\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/coaches\/john-worsfold\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Worsfold<\/a> medallist bid farewell to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> at the conclusion of the 2024 season, and took the majority of 2025 away from Aussie Rules.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bulldogs&#8217; club statement, Gaff is expected to provide &#8220;on-field support&#8221;, helping guide senior footballers through performance processes, while also offering off-field assistance where needed, as South Fremantle bolster their repertoire of player-focused resources.<\/p>\n<p>South Fremantle Head of Football Charlie Burke was excited to bring Gaff on board, believing his experience will be of major benefit to the club&#8217;s senior men&#8217;s program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to grow our program and support our players with some terrific people, and to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/andrew-gaff\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Gaff<\/a> come back to the club after fifteen years is very exciting,\u201d\u00a0Burke said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAndrew will combine his footy knowledge to support our players on-field as well as bring his passion for wellbeing as another resource to provide support for our players.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149210\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Andrew Gaff Credit: The West Australian\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Gaff.jpeg.webp.webp\"\/>Andrew Gaff<br \/>Credit: The West Australian<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFooty clubs are a great place to provide support to young men at an age where there are often a lot of challenges, and I know how passionate Andrew is about supporting players in this space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South Fremantle will aim to utilise Gaff&#8217;s experience to their benefit as they hunt back-to-back WAFL premierships in 2026, looking to become the first club since Subiaco in 2018-2019 to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 WAFL premiers, South Fremantle Bulldogs, have acquired the services of legendary West Coast midfielder Andrew Gaff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-344279","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\/344279","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=344279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}