{"id":442043,"date":"2026-01-28T03:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442043\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T03:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:21:10","slug":"local-club-lands-ex-collingwood-defender-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442043\/","title":{"rendered":"Local club lands ex-Collingwood defender &#8211; AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<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\/12\/ZeroHanger_GamesCentre.png.webp.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Collingwood defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/jack-madgen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Madgen<\/a> has joined the Lower Plenty Bears in the Northern Football Netball League for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Along with playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a>, Madgen pursued a basketball career, playing for Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, and for the Cairns Taipans in the NBL<\/p>\n<p>Madgen featured in 49 games for the Magpies across five seasons after being selected as a category B rookie in 2018, having decided to return to football.<\/p>\n<p>He made his debut in Round 20 of 2018 against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/teams\/sydney-swans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Swans<\/a>, replacing the injured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/jeremy-howe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Howe<\/a> in the Magpies&#8217; side.<\/p>\n<p>Madgen was rewarded with a three-year contract, but was eventually delisted at the end of the 2022 season.<\/p>\n<p>He then went on to captain the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/teams\/adelaide-crows\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adelaide Crows&#8217;<\/a> SANFL side, playing 53 games from 2023 to 2025.<\/p>\n<p>He recently returned to Melbourne after he was announced as Richmond&#8217;s VFL coach for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears finished sixth on the ladder last season in the Division 2 of the NFNL, winning just seven games for the season, and will look to improve in 2026 with their new key signing.<\/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 Collingwood defender Jack Madgen has joined the Lower Plenty Bears in the Northern Football Netball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-442043","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\/442043","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=442043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}