{"id":456214,"date":"2026-02-03T18:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/456214\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:38:11","slug":"former-afl-star-comes-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/456214\/","title":{"rendered":"Former AFL star comes home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"870\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Barlow_64237-696x870.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Barlow_64237\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Former Fremantle Docker and Gold Coast Sun player and current North Melbourne midfield coach, Michael Barlow, will play games for Shepparton United FNC in the 2026 GVL season when his AFL commitments allow.<\/p>\n<p>Barlow, who grew up in Shepparton, was a mature-aged recruit in the AFL and played 141 games for 92 goals. He had a reputation as a player who gave everything he had to both clubs he served.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Barlow_64237-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63614\" style=\"width:1068px;height:auto\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gmcu.com.au\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"GMCU-leaderboard2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GMCU-leaderboard2.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" style=\"opacity: 1 !important;\"\/><\/a>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheppadviser.com.au\/author\/websa\/\" aria-label=\"author-photo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Editor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/18f1cb5c8ed85382529f0ed37f59a39b0f387a4ae0e4c778f3dd4a1705b18c61.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo\" height=\"96\" width=\"96\" decoding=\"async\" data-pin-nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/a>                    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Former Fremantle Docker and Gold Coast Sun player and current North Melbourne midfield coach,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-456214","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\/456214","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=456214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}