{"id":881272,"date":"2026-09-05T19:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/881272\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T19:38:11","slug":"too-early-to-speculate-bulldogs-boss-on-butters-chase-the-canberra-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/881272\/","title":{"rendered":"Too early to speculate: Bulldogs boss on Butters chase | The Canberra Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">He said was &#8220;great spirit within the group, and I believe the boys have come a long way, and it&#8217;s a good platform for the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of the younger guys have shown a hell of a lot of improvement,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>With the AFL&#8217;s &#8220;state of flux&#8221; due to addition of a Tasmanian team in 2028, he hoped the Bulldogs could &#8220;keep most of our group together and evolve a little bit organically and add a few important players to our blend&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this market with Tasmania coming in and the compromise situation, we&#8217;ve had to plan a long way out,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we&#8217;re working through it, but definitely we&#8217;re a younger group, we&#8217;ve evolved, and so looking at more experienced acquisitions are pretty important for our list management team at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said was &#8220;great spirit within the group, and I believe the boys have come a long way,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-881272","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\/881272","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=881272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}