{"id":108973,"date":"2022-05-31T09:45:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T23:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/?p=108973"},"modified":"2022-05-31T09:45:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T23:45:05","slug":"2022-nab-league-boys-player-of-the-week-round-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2022\/05\/31\/2022-nab-league-boys-player-of-the-week-round-8\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 NAB League Boys Player of the Week: Round 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a data-type=\"team\" data-id=\"20066\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/afl\/team\/dandenong-stingrays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DANDENONG Stingrays<\/a> midfielder <a data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"84605\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/afl\/player\/taj-campbell-farrell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taj Campbell-Farrell<\/a> is&nbsp;our NAB League Player of the Week for Round 8. The consistent ball winner was dominant in his side&#8217;s 21-point win over the Sandringham Dragons on Friday night, collecting season-high numbers of 40 disposals, six marks, and 10 inside 50s against stiff opposition in the engine room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top-ager now has a steady buffer atop the NAB League disposal charts with a total of 182 from six outings. Campbell-Farrell&#8217;s season average of 30.3 has now been exceeded thrice in 2022, with his latest effort the first time he has ticked up to 40 touches in Stingrays colours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 185cm, the 17-year-old has become a reliable asset around the ball with his size and clean hands. His work in combination with the likes of <a data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"103850\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/afl\/player\/mitch-szybkowski\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mitch Szybkowski<\/a> and <a data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"84289\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/afl\/player\/henry-hustwaite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henry Hustwaite<\/a> at stoppages has been a feature of Dandenong&#8217;s play this year, with each player helping the other shine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Campbell-Farrell is the second Stingray to earn a Player of the Week nod in 2022, after leading mid-season draft candidate <a data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"80773\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/afl\/player\/jai-culley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jai Culley<\/a> did so in Round 1. He is now just the second Country-based talent to do so, but joins an esteemed list of overall recipients which includes top pick contenders&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/player\/will-ashcroft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Will Ashcroft<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/player\/elijah-tsatas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elijah Tsatas<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having knocked off the highly rated, albeit undermanned Sandringham Dragons, Campbell-Farrell and his Stingrays now sit sixth overall with a 4-2 record. Their next chance to impress comes on Saturday, as Dandenong hosts Greater Western Victoria at Shepley Oval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2022-rookie-me-central-nab-league-boys-player-of-the-week\"><strong>2022 ROOKIE ME CENTRAL NAB LEAGUE BOYS PLAYER OF THE WEEK:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Round 1: Jai Culley (Dandenong Stingrays)<br>Round 2: Will Ashcroft (Sandringham Dragons)<br>Round 3: Elijah Tsatas (Oakleigh Chargers)<br>Round 4: Harry Sheezel (Sandringham Dragons)<br>Round 5: Seth Campbell (Tasmania Devils)<br>Round 7: Lewis Hayes (Eastern Ranges)<br>Round 8: TAJ CAMPBELL-FARRELL (Dandenong Stingrays)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-dc-block-dc-mention _dc_mention\"><div class=\"section-heading_wrap\"><span class=\"section-heading is-small\">Mentions<\/span><span class=\"hor-border\"><\/span><\/div><ul class=\"js-overflow-list overflow-list\"><li class=\"object-mention_single\"><div class=\"tag tag--is-clickable\"><a class=\"tag-text _dc_mention_t\" href=\"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/team\/dandenong-stingrays\/\">Dandenong Stingrays<\/a><\/div><\/li><li class=\"object-mention_single\"><div class=\"tag tag--is-clickable\"><a class=\"tag-text _dc_mention_p\" href=\"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/player\/taj-campbell-farrell\/\">Taj Campbell-Farrell<\/a><\/div><\/li><li class=\"object-mention_single\"><div class=\"tag tag--is-clickable\"><a class=\"tag-text _dc_mention_p\" href=\"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/player\/mitch-szybkowski\/\">Mitch Szybkowski<\/a><\/div><\/li><li class=\"object-mention_single\"><div class=\"tag tag--is-clickable\"><a class=\"tag-text _dc_mention_p\" href=\"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/player\/henry-hustwaite\/\">Henry Hustwaite<\/a><\/div><\/li><li class=\"object-mention_single\"><div class=\"tag tag--is-clickable\"><a class=\"tag-text _dc_mention_p\" href=\"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/player\/jai-culley\/\">Jai Culley<\/a><\/div><\/li><li class=\"js-dropdown dropdown overflowed\"><button class=\"btn btn-icon-only\"><span class=\"icon btn-icon\">\n                    <!-- icon - plus circle - 20px-->\n                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 20 20\">\n                        <path d=\"M15,9.28h-4.3V5h0A.72.72,0,1,0,9.28,5h0V9.28H5a.72.72,0,0,0,0,1.43H9.28V15a.72.72,0,0,0,1.43,0h0V10.71H15a.72.72,0,0,0,0-1.43Z\"\/>\n                        <path d=\"M10,0A10,10,0,1,0,20,10,10,10,0,0,0,10,0Zm0,18.57A8.57,8.57,0,0,1,10,1.43h0a8.57,8.57,0,0,1,0,17.14Z\"\/>\n                    <\/svg>\n                <\/span><\/button><div class=\"popover\"><div class=\"popover-content\"><ul class=\"popover-menu\"><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DANDENONG Stingrays midfielder Taj Campbell-Farrell is&nbsp;our NAB League Player of the Week for Round 8. The consistent ball winner was dominant in his side&#8217;s 21-point win over the Sandringham Dragons on Friday night, collecting season-high numbers of 40 disposals, six marks, and 10 inside 50s against stiff opposition in the engine room. The top-ager now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":108974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11588,7949,8,18522],"tags":[43,17074,17422,18287,19073],"class_list":["post-108973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dandenong-stingrays","category-nab-league","category-news","category-player-of-the-week","tag-dandenong-stingrays","tag-henry-hustwaite","tag-jai-culley","tag-mitch-szybkowski","tag-taj-campbell-farrell"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108973"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108982,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108973\/revisions\/108982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}