{"id":353666,"date":"2023-12-13T18:36:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T19:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=353666"},"modified":"2023-12-13T22:03:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T22:03:18","slug":"dockers-stars-full-belief-after-signing-mega-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=353666","title":{"rendered":"Dockers star&#039;s &#039;full belief&#039; after signing mega deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highly sought-after <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/fremantle-dockers\" title=\"Fremantle\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fremantle<\/a> ruckman Sean Darcy has turned away from rival club offers, signing with the Dockers on a monster deal that ties him to the club until 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Darcy was expected to become a free agent after the 2024 season, but signed the contract that sees him remain in purple until the start of the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffAfter an ankle injury restricted him to just 15 games in 2023, Darcy, who is originally from Cobden in Victoria, said the club is ready to contend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/news-2023-usman-khawaja-pro-palestine-protest-simon-o-donnell-comments\/5099c7be-0c4e-4e33-a9b5-cb5e4e9abf9d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Cummins backs Khawaja as ICC bans silent protest<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/news-2023-bailey-smith-acl-injury-western-bulldogs\/10dfe844-ea21-42d6-950a-ef44424b0958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Western Bulldogs suffer major blow with star&#x27;s brutal injury<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2023-shane-richardson-jarome-luai-plea-after-wests-tigers-board-upheaval\/ac7f2e1d-8c20-4ce7-a999-e4d0cf8e77d8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Incoming Tigers boss&#x27; plea to Luai after &#x27;traumatic day&#x27;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alongside prized recruit Luke Jackson, Darcy has declared the Dockers aren&#x27;t &quot;shying away&quot; from the criticism after their dismal 14th-placed finish in 2023, with the club yet to win a flag.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We had a bit of a disappointing year last season and we&#x27;re not shying away from it,&quot; Darcy said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"f1126ea7-848e-4b3a-ad73-b281e7c8071c\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/f1126ea7-848e-4b3a-ad73-b281e7c8071c\" alt=\"Sean Darcy\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Everyone is on board that we need to be better, we need to improve and we need to improve quickly.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#x27;re trying to get the best out of each other and we&#x27;re working hard every day to push each other, so it&#x27;s really exciting.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s a really exciting time for the footy club, we&#x27;ve got some really talented players.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"9d1f4dd6-3f8f-4514-a966-3046358a3ad1\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/a539b34f-cb4b-4296-b11a-af8efffcd092\" alt=\"Sean Darcy of the Dockers is seen in action\" data-width=\"1000\" data-height=\"563\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;We just need to get stuck into it and I can&#x27;t wait for the season to start. I&#x27;ve got full belief in our team, our list and what we&#x27;re building and everything going forward.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Fremantle will welcome Darcy to the 100 games club in 2024, as he sits on 98 games at the end of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Dockers host the 2023 grand finalists, Brisbane at Optus Stadium in round one of the 2024 season.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Highly sought-after Fremantle ruckman Sean Darcy has turned away from rival club offers, signing with the Dockers on a monster deal that ties him to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=353666\" title=\"Dockers star&#039;s &#039;full belief&#039; after signing mega deal\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":353668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353671,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353666\/revisions\/353671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/353668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}