{"id":349931,"date":"2025-12-15T16:56:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/349931\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T16:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:56:18","slug":"versatile-forward-delisted-after-two-seasons-at-geelong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/349931\/","title":{"rendered":"Versatile forward delisted after two seasons at Geelong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Caitlin Thorne has not been offered a contract for the 2026 season\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Caitlin Thorne celebrates victory after the match between Gold Coast and Geelong at People First Stadium in round four, 2024. Picture: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>GEELONG has informed Caitlin Thorne that she will not be offered a contract for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Thorne&#8217;s versatility was one of her biggest assets, given she could be used across all three lines during her time in the blue and white hoops.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thorne joined the Cats as a product of Box Hill&#8217;s VFLW program and played 11 games in two seasons with Geelong.<\/p>\n<p>Her defensive pressure and intent became a trademark of her game under former Geelong coach Dan Lowther.<\/p>\n<p>Geelong Head of AFLW Dominique Condo thanked Thorne for her contributions to the Cats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Caitlin embraced our program and was a great teammate as she continued to grow and develop her game over the past two seasons,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wish her all the best on the next phase of her journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Thorne has not been offered a contract for the 2026 season Caitlin Thorne celebrates victory after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-349931","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","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349931","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=349931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}