{"id":476735,"date":"2026-02-13T06:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/476735\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T06:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:12:12","slug":"white-departs-as-derksen-granted-train-on-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/476735\/","title":{"rendered":"White departs as Derksen granted train-on spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Will White has been informed he will not continue for the remainder of Carlton&#8217;s pre-season.\n            <\/p>\n<p>CARLTON has today informed Will White that he will not continue with the Club for the remainder of the pre-season Supplemental Selection Period.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as a result of the Club granting Wade Derksen an SSP train-on spot for the remainder of the pre-season.<\/p>\n<p>Derksen, a versatile tall, recently signed with the Blues\u2019 VFL side after 57 VFL games for GWS, in which he led the Giants goalkicking in 2023 before being named as a defender in the VFL Team of the Year in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old will now train full-time with the AFL program over the coming weeks, ahead of the pre-season Supplemental Selection Period deadline on 2 March.<\/p>\n<p>The Club currently has one available list spot that is has the option to fill prior to the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>White officially departs the Blues\u2019 AFL program after 12 months on the playing list.<\/p>\n<p>Signed on the eve of the 2025 season, White played 14 games in the Navy Blue last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody who knows Will knows how great a club person he is,\u201d Blues Head of List Management Nick Austin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe friendships he leaves with is a true testament to that, he is a player who never took for granted what it meant to wear the monogram and we wish him all the best for the next step in his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis now gives Wade the opportunity to be with the program full time as we looking to finalise our playing list ahead of 2 March.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will White has been informed he will not continue for the remainder of Carlton&#8217;s pre-season. CARLTON has today&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476736,"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-476735","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\/476735","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=476735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}