{"id":32337,"date":"2018-03-27T17:41:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T06:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afldraftcentral.com.au\/?p=32337"},"modified":"2021-10-06T06:29:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T20:29:39","slug":"team-of-the-week-tac-cup-round-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2018\/03\/27\/team-of-the-week-tac-cup-round-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Team of the Week: TAC Cup – Round 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

AFTER the action-packed first round of TAC Cup action, it is hard to reduce the best players from the round down into a single best 22. But that is what we will be doing each week to create the AFL Draft Central<\/em> TAC Cup Team of the Week<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Every team earned a representative in the best 22, with a remarkable spread of players. Of the 12 teams, 10 had two representatives each, while Murray Bushrangers’ Lachlan Ash<\/strong> and Northern Knights’ Tom McKenzie<\/strong> were the sole inclusions for their respective sides.<\/p>\n

Eastern Ranges were under siege at times from a ruthless Oakleigh Chargers outfit, so it is no surprise that their two representatives hail in defence. The Ranges best on the day was Ben Cardamone<\/strong>, while James Blanck<\/strong> stood out as a key position defender. Up the other end of the field that day, Isaac Quaynor<\/strong> was having an impact off half-back, joined in the Team of the Week by Jack Ross<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Calder Cannons’ Jack Evans<\/strong> will come off the bench, while the versatile Mitch Podhajski<\/strong> was named at half-forward. Podhajski played predominantly midfield on the weekend, but did sneak forward and kick a goal, and is more than capable of performing inside the forward 50.<\/p>\n

Also in defence is potential top 10 pick Ben King<\/strong> holding down the other key position post. He will join star midfielder and Sandringham Dragons teammate Bailey Smith<\/strong> who was unstoppable of the weekend. The midfield is beefed up with clearance guns Ed McHenry<\/strong> (Geelong Falcons) and Xavier O’Halloran<\/strong> (Western Jets) joining Smith in the middle. McHenry’s teammate Charlie Sprague<\/strong> was the Falcons only multiple goal kicker so he earns a spot in the side, while Aaron Clarke<\/strong> also booted three goals for the Jets and showed some great athleticism for a taller player on Friday night.<\/p>\n

The last spot in defence went to over-ager Matthew McGannon<\/strong> who had the ball on a string against the Murray Bushrangers. McGannon joins teammate and captain Xavier Duursma<\/strong> who made it onto the interchange bench. A midfielder who made it onto the field was Scott Carlin<\/strong> (GWV Rebels) after a sensational game covering all areas of the ground. He and exciting forward Charlie Wilson<\/strong> represent the Rebels in the Team of the Week.<\/p>\n

Moving up forward, key position forward\/ruck Riley Bowman<\/strong> will straighten up the team, representing the Dandenong Stingrays with Campbell Hustwaite<\/strong> who squeezed onto the bench. Bendigo Pioneers have had a trouble finding key position players in the past, but undersized KPP Will Holt<\/strong> (full-forward) and Daniel Keating<\/strong> (ruck) were outstanding on the weekend.<\/p>\n

Naturally there were plenty of unlucky players to miss out. Among them were the likes of Lachlan Sholl<\/strong> (Calder Cannons), Stefan Radovanovic<\/strong> (Western Jets), Oakleigh trio Noah Anderson<\/strong>, Xavier O’Neill<\/strong> and Riley Collier-Dawkins<\/strong>, Northern Knights captain Braedyn Gillard<\/strong> and defender Lachlan Potter<\/strong>, Murray Bushrangers Ely Smith<\/strong>, Bendigo Pioneers’ Noah Wheeler<\/strong> and Geelong Falcons’ Sam Walsh<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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AFTER the action-packed first round of TAC Cup action, it is hard to reduce the best players from the round down into a single best 22. But that is what we will be doing each week to create the AFL Draft Central TAC Cup Team of the Week. Every team earned a representative in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":25514,"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":[7949,8,16],"tags":[3834,3879,2465,2439,63,2987,2700,2049,3837,2261,2206,2061,3810,3835,3892,2441,96,2794,1622,1683,3908,3734,2640,3814,2064,2318],"class_list":["post-32337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nab-league","category-news","category-tac-cup","tag-aaron-clarke","tag-afl-draft-central-team-of-the-week","tag-bailey-smith","tag-ben-cardamone","tag-ben-king","tag-campbell-hustwaite","tag-charlie-sprague","tag-charlie-wilson","tag-daniel-keating","tag-ed-mchenry","tag-isaac-quaynor","tag-jack-evans","tag-jack-ross","tag-james-blanck","tag-lachlan-ash","tag-matthew-mcgannon","tag-mitch-podhajski","tag-riley-bowman","tag-round-one","tag-scott-carlin","tag-tac-cup-team-of-the-week","tag-team-of-the-week","tag-tom-mckenzie","tag-will-holt","tag-xavier-duursma","tag-xavier-ohalloran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32337","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88199,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32337\/revisions\/88199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}