{"id":90067,"date":"2026-09-07T09:35:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/90067\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T09:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:35:31","slug":"former-melbourne-demon-oskar-baker-among-four-western-bulldogs-delisted-after-season-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/90067\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Melbourne Demon Oskar Baker among four Western Bulldogs delisted after season ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Four Bulldogs have been told they will not be offered contracts for 2027\n <\/p>\n

Oskar Baker celebrates kicking a goal during the match between Carlton and the Western Bulldogs at Marvel Stadium in round 10, 2026. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n

OSKAR Baker is among four players delisted by the Western Bulldogs as his time at a second AFL club comes to an end.<\/p>\n

Baker played 42 games for the Bulldogs after joining the club as a pre-season supplemental selection period (SSP) signing ahead of the 2023 campaign.<\/p>\n

WHO’S CALLED IT QUITS 2026’s retirements and\u00a0delistings<\/a><\/p>\n

The former Demon has been axed, along with Harvey Gallagher, Lachlan Smith and Zac Walker.<\/p>\n

Gallagher, the No.39 pick in 2022, played 28 AFL games, while Smith featured just twice at the top level.<\/p>\n

A mid-season pick in 2025, Walker played 24 VFL games but never featured at AFL level.<\/p>\n

“Oskar, Harvey, Lachie and Zac have all been popular and dedicated members of our playing group and we thank them for their contributions to the Western Bulldogs,” Bulldogs executive manager men’s football Sam Power said.<\/p>\n

“They are terrific people who will always be welcome back at Mission Whitten Oval.”<\/p>\n

The delistings come after AFL.com.au’s Cal Twomey reported earlier on Monday that in-demand forward Arty Jones would be staying at the club<\/a> amid rival interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four Bulldogs have been told they will not be offered contracts for 2027 Oskar Baker celebrates kicking a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-90067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-melbourne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}