{"id":49314,"date":"2019-05-01T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T05:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afl.draftcentral.localhost\/?p=49314"},"modified":"2019-05-01T16:03:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T05:03:23","slug":"western-australia-announces-40-player-squad-for-national-under-18-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2019\/05\/01\/western-australia-announces-40-player-squad-for-national-under-18-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Australia announces 40-player squad for National Under 18 Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAST Fremantle has dominated the National Under 18 Championships list for Western Australia, with nine players included in the main squad, and a further two train-one players making it 11 from a 40-player squad. The next highest representation comes from Swan Districts with six main squad players and one train-on player, one more than Claremont and West Perth. Perth has five players, while Subiaco has three and Peel Thunder two.<\/p>\n<p>The Western Australia side includes nine bottom-agers in the team, as well as seven over-agers. Among the top players to keep an eye on this season, East Fremantle has a couple of potential top 10 selections in ruckman, <strong>Luke Jackson<\/strong> and running winger, <strong>Jeremy Sharp<\/strong>, while <strong>Jack Buller<\/strong> (Claremont), <strong>Deven Robertson<\/strong> (Perth), and <strong>Riley Garcia<\/strong> and <strong>Jake Pasini<\/strong> (Swan Districts) are others to watch. With a consistent team across the board, expect Western Australia to be very competitive at the championships as they have been the last few years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Claremont [6]:<\/strong> Cameron Anderson, Jack Buller, Liam Henry, Callum Jamieson+, Ronan O&#8217;Connor, Joel Western*<br \/>\n<strong>East Fremantle [9+2]:<\/strong> Owen Dann* (TO), John Garlett+ (TO), Jai Jackson, Luke Jackson, Reuben McGuire, Max Murphy+, Trent Rivers, Trey Ruscoe, Jeremy Sharp, Brandon Walker*, Chad Warner<br \/>\n<strong>East Perth [0]:<\/strong> Nil.<br \/>\n<strong>Peel Thunder [2]:<\/strong> Jarvis Pina+, Tyrone Thorne<br \/>\n<strong>Perth [5]:<\/strong> Regan Clarke, Logan McDonald*, Nathan O&#8217;Driscoll*, Deven Robertson, Elijah Taylor<br \/>\n<strong>Swan Districts [6+1]:<\/strong> Jermari Daly (TO), Riley Garcia, Denver Grainger-Barras*, Nathan Ireland+, Jake Pasini, Ty Sears*, Zane Trew*<br \/>\n<strong>Subiaco [2+1]:<\/strong> Mitchell Georgiades (TO), Tristan Hobley+, Nicholas Martin<br \/>\n<strong>West Perth [4+2]:<\/strong> Heath Chapman (TO), Ryan Hudson, Ben Johnson, Michael Mallard* (TO), Zak Patterson+, Jaxon Prior.<\/p>\n<p>* Bottom-age (2002 birth)<br \/>\n+ Over-age (2000 birth)<br \/>\nTO = Train-on, can be elevated to main squad over the championships<\/p>\n<p><strong>Western Australia&#8217;s National Under 18 Championships fixture:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>vs. Vic Metro at Lathlain Park, June 8.<br \/>\nvs. South Australia at Optus Stadium, June 15.<br \/>\nvs. Allies at Alberton Oval, June 22.<br \/>\nvs. Vic Country at Marvel Stadium, July 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST Fremantle has dominated the National Under 18 Championships list for Western Australia, with nine players included in the main squad, and a further two train-one players making it 11 from a 40-player squad. The next highest representation comes from Swan Districts with six main squad players and one train-on player, one more than Claremont [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":41613,"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":[17,8,15,3131],"tags":[4790,5690,5273,8692,8473,4131,4053,2752,5206,4143,4058,4060,8412,5861,8734,2152,5686,2553,5593,5843,6020,1334,8733,4394,8735,4048,8732,4134,4256,5925,8738,8737,8736],"class_list":["post-49314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-championships","category-news","category-state-leagues","category-western-australia","tag-ben-johnson","tag-brandon-walker","tag-callum-jamieson","tag-cameron-anderson","tag-chad-warner","tag-deven-robertson","tag-elijah-taylor","tag-jack-buller","tag-jai-jackson","tag-jarvis-pina","tag-jaxon-prior","tag-jeremy-sharp","tag-jermari-daly","tag-joel-western","tag-john-garlett","tag-liam-henry","tag-logan-mcdonald","tag-luke-jackson","tag-max-murphy","tag-michael-mallard","tag-nathan-odriscoll","tag-national-championships","tag-owen-dann","tag-regan-clarke","tag-reuben-mcguire","tag-riley-garcia","tag-ronan-oconnor","tag-trent-rivers","tag-trey-ruscoe","tag-tyrone-thorne","tag-western-australia-2019-under-18-squad","tag-western-australia-under-18-squad","tag-zak-patterson"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49314","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=49314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}