OAKLEIGH Chargers have been a premiership contender since the start of the season, and remain well in contention for a top four position. They face Sandringham Dragons this weekend, and a win would see them at least move within two points of both Sandringham and Murray Bushrangers on the TAC Cup table \u2013 the latter of which they are within the two points already. With Murray facing Gippsland Power, there is every chance Oakleigh can snatch fourth spot, however a loss, and it makes things tough. They must win against GWV Rebels in the final round, but have to record the two wins or otherwise hope that Murray loses both.<\/p>\n
Wins:<\/strong>\u00a08 R15:<\/strong>\u00a0vs. Sandringham Dragons \u2013 Avalon Airport Oval National Combine Invitations:<\/strong>\u00a0[8] Noah Answerth, Riley Collier-Dawkins, Will Golds, Will Kelly, Xavier O\u2019Neill, Isaac Quaynor, James Rowbottom, Ben Silvagni<\/p>\n State Combine Invitations:<\/strong>\u00a0[6] Joseph Ayton-Delaney, Atu Bosenavulagi, Kyle Dunkley, Jake Gasper, James Jordan, Jack Ross<\/p>\n Oakleigh showed off its huge draft crop potential with 14 players invited to test at National and State combines. The Chargers were second only to Dandenong Stingrays (17) in terms of total players invited, and they loom as a danger side come finals. With so much emphasis on forward pressure, it is no surprise to see\u00a0Atu Bosenavulagi<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Jake Gasper<\/strong>top two for tackles at the club \u2013 forwards who lock the ball inside the 50. With Oakleigh always decimated due to school football, the likes of\u00a0Will Kelly<\/strong>,\u00a0James Rowbottom<\/strong>,\u00a0Ben Silvagni<\/strong>,\u00a0Will Golds<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Jack Ross<\/strong>\u00a0returning to help out\u00a0Riley Collier-Dawkins<\/strong>,\u00a0Xavier O\u2019Neill<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Isaac Quaynor<\/strong>\u00a0in the starting side will be crucial in the run to the Grand Final. The bottom-age brigade of\u00a0Trent Bianco<\/strong>,\u00a0Noah Anderson<\/strong>,\u00a0Dylan Williams<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Matt Rowell<\/strong>\u00a0among others are up there with Gippsland Power as the top contenders for next season.<\/p>\n Disposals:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 \u2013 Xavier O\u2019Neill \u2013 260 (16th overall) Marks:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 \u2013 Xavier O\u2019Neill \u2013 52 (eq. 24th overall) Contested Possessions:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 \u2013 Atu Bosenavulagi \u2013 109 (eq. 22nd overall) Tackles:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 \u2013 Atu Bosenavulagi \u2013 62 (eq. 19th overall) Hitouts:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 \u2013 Lachlan Harry \u2013 111 (eq. 16th overall) Clearances:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 \u2013 Riley Collier-Dawkins \u2013 33 (eq. 33rd overall) Inside 50s:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 \u2013 Xavier O\u2019Neill \u2013 45 (eq. 14th overall) Rebounds:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 \u2013 Trent Bianco \u2013 35 (eq. 19th overall) Goals:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 \u2013 Jake Gasper \u2013 32 (3rd overall) OAKLEIGH Chargers have been a premiership contender since the start of the season, and remain well in contention for a top four position. They face Sandringham Dragons this weekend, and a win would see them at least move within two points of both Sandringham and Murray Bushrangers on the TAC Cup table \u2013 the latter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":32657,"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":[4936,2254,2548,2206,3810,5582,2453,2547,2521,2053,2641,2779,182,2315],"class_list":["post-38899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nab-league","category-news","category-tac-cup","tag-atu-bosenavulagi","tag-ben-silvagni","tag-dylan-williams","tag-isaac-quaynor","tag-jack-ross","tag-jake-gasper","tag-james-rowbottom","tag-matt-rowell","tag-noah-anderson","tag-riley-collier-dawkins","tag-trent-bianco","tag-will-golds","tag-will-kelly","tag-xavier-oneill"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38899","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=38899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88086,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38899\/revisions\/88086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Losses:<\/strong>\u00a05
Draws:<\/strong>\u00a01
Position:<\/strong>\u00a05th
Points For:<\/strong>\u00a01019 (4th)
Points Against:<\/strong>\u00a0809 (3rd)
Percentage:<\/strong>\u00a0126
Points:<\/strong>\u00a034<\/p>\nFixtures:<\/strong><\/h5>\n
R16:<\/strong>\u00a0vs. GWV Rebels \u2013 MARS Stadium<\/p>\nTop Fives:<\/strong><\/h5>\n
2 \u2013 Trent Bianco \u2013 204
3 \u2013 Noah Answerth \u2013 189
4 \u2013 Atu Bosenavulagi \u2013 184
5 \u2013 Riley Collier-Dawkins \u2013 180<\/p>\n
2 \u2013 Trent Bianco \u2013 44
3 \u2013 Dylan Williams \u2013 40
4 \u2013 Noah Answerth \u2013 35
4 \u2013 Jay Robertson \u2013 35<\/p>\n
2 \u2013 Xavier O\u2019Neill \u2013 100
3 \u2013 Riley Collier-Dawkins \u2013 84
4 \u2013 Trent Bianco \u2013 79
5 \u2013 Noah Answerth \u2013 75<\/p>\n
2 \u2013 Jake Gasper \u2013 48
3 \u2013 Xavier O\u2019Neill \u2013 47
4 \u2013 Xavier Fry \u2013 45
5 \u2013 Kyle Viccars \u2013 43<\/p>\n
2 \u2013 Jay Robertson \u2013 87
3 \u2013 Nick Bryan \u2013 81
4 \u2013 Bailey Griffiths \u2013 73
5 \u2013 Tom Hogan \u2013 41<\/p>\n
1 \u2013 Xavier O\u2019Neill \u2013 33 (eq. 33rd overall)
1 \u2013 James Rowbottom \u2013 33 (eq. 33rd overall)
4 \u2013 Jack Ross \u2013 31
5 \u2013 Atu Bosenavulagi \u2013 22<\/p>\n
2 \u2013 Jake Gasper \u2013 35
3 \u2013 Atu Bosenavulagi \u2013 31
4 \u2013 James Rowbottom \u2013 27
5 \u2013 Jay Robertson \u2013 25<\/p>\n
1 \u2013 Isaac Quaynor \u2013 35 (eq. 19th overall)
3 \u2013 Xavier O\u2019Neill \u2013 27
4 \u2013 Noah Answerth \u2013 21
5 \u2013 Dylan Williams \u2013 20<\/p>\n
2 \u2013 Matthew Day \u2013 17 (eq. 9th overall)
3 \u2013 Daniel Scala \u2013 15
4 \u2013 Jay Robertson \u2013 9
5 \u2013 Charlie Whitehead \u2013 8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"