Premiership favourite earns fresh Cats contract

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Geelong person re-signed weapon defender Sam De Koning for different 2 years, locking him successful astatine Kardinia Park until the extremity of 2025.

De Koning inactive had a twelvemonth near connected his contract, but the nine moved to re-sign him aboriginal successful an evident motion they spot the 202cm 21-year-old arsenic a cardinal portion of their future.

After being signed arsenic the 19th prime successful the 2019 AFL draft, De Koning played conscionable erstwhile successful his archetypal 2 years astatine the Cats, earlier a breakout 2022 saw him play 23 of 25 games.

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His play was capped disconnected with an affectional archetypal extremity precocious successful the Cats' expansive last triumph implicit the Swans.

In the club's statement, De Koning said he was excited to motion a caller deal.

"The nine is filled with large radical and it's conscionable a large organisation to beryllium portion of," De Koning said.

"We person a batch of bully young players coming done and a large radical of elder players who proceed to thatch america a lot. The nine has got a large civilization and I privation to beryllium portion of it.

"It's been a whirlwind 12 months and my absorption is to present get backmost to work, travel into grooming with the aforesaid cognition and beryllium bare to improve.

"I cognize there's areas I tin amended connected to instrumentality my crippled to different level and I'm excited to travel successful each time and enactment connected those things to go the subordinate I cognize I tin beryllium and scope my afloat potential."

Geelong database absorption caput Andrew Mackie said De Koning was a fashionable portion of the playing group.

"Sam is simply a large young antheral and a fashionable teammate, and we can't hold to spot him proceed to turn arsenic a subordinate and idiosyncratic implicit the adjacent mates of years," helium said.

"Sam has worked highly hard successful his 3 seasons astatine the Club to springiness himself the champion accidental to beryllium the champion helium tin be.

"He played an important relation for the squad successful 2022 and I person nary uncertainty helium has the hunger to proceed to enactment connected his craft, which is an breathtaking imaginable for each of america astatine the Geelong Football Club, and for Sam himself."

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