{"id":1614,"date":"2022-10-20T15:23:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T04:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2022-10-20T15:29:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T04:29:05","slug":"exclusive-tom-williamson-linked-with-ararat-rats-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/2022\/10\/20\/exclusive-tom-williamson-linked-with-ararat-rats-return\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Tom Williamson linked with Ararat Rats return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORMER Carlton defender and Ararat local Tom Williamson is in talks with Ararat Rats for a return home in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson parted ways with the Blues after 44 AFL matches in six seasons and is in negotiations with the Wimmera Football League giant, in what would be a major signing for the Rats fresh off a senior football Grand Final defeat.<\/p>\n<p>While nothing has been signed officially and despite, the\u00a0<em>Advocate <\/em>understands Williamson is in advanced discussions with the Rats, who are optimistic the 23-year-old will play for them next season.<\/p>\n<p>Should he sign, Williamson would only take up one point, due to his junior ties with the club, instead of the six normally allotted to ex-AFL players.<\/p>\n<p>After departing the Blues earlier this year, Williamson played a few games with North Melbourne\u2019s VFL team.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson played for the Rats between 2014-15 and was taken at pick 61 by Carlton in the 2016 National Draft, where he became the latest of a long list of Ararat footballers to have played at VFL\/AFL level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORMER Carlton defender and Ararat local Tom Williamson is in talks with Ararat Rats for a return home in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"coauthors":[38],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WilloJune10-002.jpg?fit=2064%2C1263&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqUu4-q2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}