{"id":218763,"date":"2026-07-15T18:51:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/?p=218763"},"modified":"2026-07-15T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:52:00","slug":"scouting-notes-2026-afl-u16s-vic-country-vs-south-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2026\/07\/15\/scouting-notes-2026-afl-u16s-vic-country-vs-south-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Scouting Notes: 2026 AFL U16s &#8211; Vic Country vs. South Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SOUTH Australia opened its account at this year&#8217;s Under 16 National Championships with a 23-point win over Vic Country at People First Stadium on Tuesday. In what was an enthralling high-scoring shootout, the Croweaters simply had too much firepower and made their opportunities count to notch up a triple-figure score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The win was spearheaded by tall forward <strong>Harry Schubert<\/strong> (four goals), the brother of 2025 Hawthorn draftee <strong>Aidan<\/strong>. He was among 10 individual goalkickers for South Australia, while Vic Country livewire <strong>Isaac Brown<\/strong> snared three majors to be among his side&#8217;s best. We took note of the top performers from either side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VIC COUNTRY 4.2 | 6.4 | 9.6 | 12.8 (80)<br>SOUTH AUSTRALIA 3.1 | 7.3 | 12.3 | 16.7 (103)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GOALS:<\/strong><br><strong>Vic Country:<\/strong> I. Brown 3, A. Farr 2, L. Sims 2, C. Whelan 2, H. Brown, H. Greene, D. Rizzoli<br><strong>South Australia:<\/strong> H. Schubert 4, J. Allan 2, K. Saracino 2, F. Vogt 2, S. DePalma, L. Dudley, R. Lindner, J. Munday, Z. Rooney, L. Treverton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BEST:<\/strong><br><strong>Vic Country: <\/strong>C. Whelan, E. Hyde, I. Brown, H. Metcher, L. Sims, Z. Blythe<br><strong>South Australia: <\/strong>H. Schubert, J. Westley, T. Schultz, J. Treverton, J. Gallagher, C. Jolly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div><\/div>\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_e\" href=\"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/event\/vic-country-vs-south-australia\/\">Vic Country vs South Australia<\/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>SOUTH Australia opened its account at this year&#8217;s Under 16 National Championships with a 23-point win over Vic Country at People First Stadium on Tuesday. In what was an enthralling high-scoring shootout, the Croweaters simply had too much firepower and made their opportunities count to notch up a triple-figure score. The win was spearheaded by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":218702,"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":[18050,17,8,11,3130,3134],"tags":[20790],"class_list":["post-218763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afl-draft","category-national-championships","category-news","category-scouting-notes","category-south-australia","category-victoria","tag-vic-country-vs-south-australia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218763","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=218763"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218804,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218763\/revisions\/218804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}