{"id":410865,"date":"2026-01-13T21:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/410865\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T21:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:40:11","slug":"casey-land-former-roo-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/410865\/","title":{"rendered":"Casey land former Roo &#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\/2026\/01\/ZH-InArticleMyTeamLink.png.webp.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former North Melbourne player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/miller-bergman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miller Bergman<\/a> will line up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/vfl\/casey-demons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Casey Demons<\/a> in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Zero Hanger can exclusively reveal that the 16-game former Kangaroo has signed a contract with Melbourne&#8217;s VFL affiliate, after it was confirmed in October that he would also call his junior club Berwick home.<\/p>\n<p>The injury-riddled 2021 pick 38 played 12 of his 16 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> games in 2023 before jaw, hamstring and ACL injuries kept the Dandenong Stingrays graduate sidelined across the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>He made the last of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> appearances in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Casey finished fifth in 2025, going down in the semi finals and has also signed 12-game former Essendon forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/luamon-lual\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luamon Lual<\/a> under new coach Rhett McLennan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The VFL season kicks off on March 21.<\/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; Former North Melbourne player Miller Bergman will line up for Casey Demons in 2026. Zero Hanger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-410865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410865","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=410865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}