{"id":408216,"date":"2026-01-12T11:53:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408216\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:53:21","slug":"stengle-to-take-leave-from-geelong-no-timeline-set-on-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408216\/","title":{"rendered":"Stengle to take leave from Geelong, no timeline set on return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Geelong forward Tyson Stengle&#8217;s has been granted time away from the club\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Tyson Stengle warms up ahead of the 2025 Toyota AFL Grand Final on September 27, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>GEELONG forward Tyson Stengle will take time away from the club and pre-season training, with the club&#8217;s full blessing.<\/p>\n<p>Stengle is expected to return to the Cats in the &#8220;short term&#8221;, but no timeline has been set.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tyson\u2019s welfare is our priority and, with the support of the club, he\u2019ll be given the time he needs before returning to training,&#8221; Cats&#8217; footy boss Andrew Mackie said in a statement released on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Stengle played in the Cats&#8217; losing Grand Final in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geelong forward Tyson Stengle&#8217;s has been granted time away from the club Tyson Stengle warms up ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408217,"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-408216","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\/408216","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=408216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}