{"id":57083,"date":"2019-08-30T12:20:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T01:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afl.draftcentral.localhost\/?p=57083"},"modified":"2019-08-30T12:28:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T01:28:25","slug":"next-years-stars-to-strut-stuff-on-afl-grand-final-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2019\/08\/30\/next-years-stars-to-strut-stuff-on-afl-grand-final-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Next year’s stars to strut stuff on AFL Grand Final Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEXT year’s top draft prospects will once again get the chance to impress recruiters and stand out in front of AFL fans in a curtain raiser to the 2019 AFL Draft Final. Last year Oakleigh Chargers’ Matt Rowell<\/strong> was named best on ground in the Under-17 All Stars game and has emerged as the front runner for pick one in this year’s draft. The game pits the 48 highest rated available players against each other in mixed teams named after AFL stars, Nick Dal Santo<\/strong> and Jonathan Brown<\/strong>. Coached by fellow former AFL players, NAB AFL Academy Head Coach Luke Power<\/strong> (Team Brown) and Vic Country Under-18 coach Leigh Brown<\/strong> (Team Dal Santo), the players will get a taste of what their future could hold before the elite level’s most prestigious match of the season.<\/p>\n

Among the names who have already shown promising signs throughout either the AFL Under-16 Championships or AFL Under-18 Championships over the past few years, are Oakleigh Chargers pair Will Phillips<\/strong> and Jamarra Ugle-Hagan<\/strong>, West Adelaide’s Riley Thilthorpe<\/strong> and Glenelg’s Luke Edwards<\/strong>, Murray Bushrangers’ Elijah Hollands<\/strong> and Sydney Swans Academy’s Braeden Campbell<\/strong> who represent Team Brown. For Team Dal Santo, Central District’s Corey Durdin<\/strong>, North Launceston’s Jackson Callow<\/strong>, Geelong Falcons’ Tanner Bruhn<\/strong>, Sydney Swans Academy’s Errol Gulden<\/strong>, Perth’s Nathan O’Driscoll<\/strong> and Northern Territory’s Brodie Lake<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In terms of state-by-state representation, Victoria leads the way with 21 players – 11 for Vic Metro and 10 for Vic Country – ahead of South Australia and Western Australia (both nine). Queensland (four) has the most of the Allied states, with NSW\/ACT (three) and Tasmania and Northern Territory (two each). Indidivdual clubs with multiple players are Geelong Falcons and Oakleigh Chargers (four each), while Brisbane Lions Academy, Woodville-West Torrens, Sandringham Dragons and Perth all have three representatives.<\/p>\n

Team Brown:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jake Bowey (Sandringham Dragons\/Vic Metro)
\nBraeden Campbell (Sydney Swans\/NSW-ACT)
\nTaj Schofield (WWT Eagles\/South Australia)
\nNoah Gribble (Geelong Falcons\/Vic Country)
\nBlake Coleman (Brisbane Lions\/Queensland)
\nWill Phillips (Oakleigh Chargers\/Vic Metro)
\nBrandon Walker (East Fremantle\/Western Australia)
\nConnor Downie (Eastern Ranges\/Vic Metro)
\nEddie Ford (Western Jets\/Vic Metro)
\nSaxon Crozier (Brisbane Lions\/Queensland)
\nLuke Edwards (Glenelg\/South Australia)
\nSam Collins (North Hobart\/Tasmania)
\nElijah Hollands (Murray Bushrangers\/Vic Country)
\nBlake Morris (Subiaco\/Western Australia)
\nJoel Jeffrey (Wanderers\/Northern Territory)
\nJames Borlase (Sturt\/South Australia)
\nNick Stevens (GWV Rebels\/Vic Country)
\nReef McInnes (Oakleigh Chargers\/Vic Metro)
\nJosh Treacy (Bendigo Pioneers\/Vic Country)
\nLogan McDonald (Perth\/Western Australia)
\nJamarra Ugle-Hagan (Oakleigh Chargers\/Vic Country)
\nRiley Thilthorpe (West Adelaide\/South Australia)
\nShannon Neale (South Fremantle\/Western Australia)
\nZach Reid (Gippsland Power\/Vic Country)<\/p>\n

Team Dal Santo:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Errol Gulden (Sydney Swans\/NSW-ACT)
\nJoel Western (Claremont\/Western Australia)
\nCorey Durdin (Central District\/South Australia)
\nWil Parker (Eastern Ranges\/Vic Metro)
\nFinlay Macrae (Oakleigh Chargers\/Vic Metro)
\nTanner Bruhn (Geelong Falcons\/Vic Country)
\nZavier Maher (Murray Bushrangers\/Vic Country)
\nNathan O’Driscoll (Perth\/Western Australia)
\nZac Dumesny (South Adelaide\/South Australia)
\nArchie Perkins (Sandringham Dragons\/Vic Metro)
\nJack Carroll (East Fremantle\/Western Australia)
\nLachlan Jones (WWT Eagles\/South Australia)
\nOliver Henry (Geelong Falcons\/Vic Country)
\nCarter Michael (Brisbane Lions\/Queensland)
\nBrodie Lake (Southern Districts\/Northern Territory)
\nAlex Davies (Gold Coast SUNS\/Queensland)
\nJosh Green (GWS GIANTS\/NSW-ACT)
\nHeath Chapman (West Perth\/Western Australia)
\nJackson Callow (North Launceston\/Tasmania)
\nOllie Lord (Sandringham Dragons\/Vic Metro)
\nCody Brand (Calder Cannons\/Vic Metro)
\nNikolas Cox (Northern Knights\/Vic Metro)
\nHenry Walsh (Geelong Falcons\/Vic Country)
\nHenry Smith (WWT Eagles\/South Australia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEXT year’s top draft prospects will once again get the chance to impress recruiters and stand out in front of AFL fans in a curtain raiser to the 2019 AFL Draft Final. Last year Oakleigh Chargers’ Matt Rowell was named best on ground in the Under-17 All Stars game and has emerged as the front […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":55374,"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":[8],"tags":[5479,8684,5877,9145,5887,5690,5488,9624,8548,5701,5442,5862,2856,5185,7333,8770,9390,7331,9214,5473,5699,2624,5444,7222,5861,1018,3821,2833,9248,3260,5686,2703,60,2547,6020,59,5704,8456,8134,8131,9623,9219,2509,5475,5482,9284,4255,2817,9065,2460,5320,7332,5848],"class_list":["post-57083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alex-davies","tag-archie-perkins","tag-blake-coleman","tag-blake-morris","tag-braeden-campbell","tag-brandon-walker","tag-brodie-lake","tag-carter-michael","tag-cody-brand","tag-connor-downie","tag-corey-durdin","tag-eddie-ford","tag-elijah-hollands","tag-errol-gulden","tag-finlay-macrae","tag-heath-chapman","tag-henry-smith","tag-henry-walsh","tag-jack-carroll","tag-jackson-callow","tag-jake-bowey","tag-jamarra-ugle-hagan","tag-james-borlase","tag-joel-jeffrey","tag-joel-western","tag-jonathan-brown","tag-josh-green","tag-josh-treacy","tag-lachlan-jones","tag-leigh-brown","tag-logan-mcdonald","tag-luke-edwards","tag-luke-power","tag-matt-rowell","tag-nathan-odriscoll","tag-nick-dal-santo","tag-nick-stevens","tag-nikolas-cox","tag-noah-gribble","tag-oliver-henry","tag-ollie-lord","tag-reef-mcinnes","tag-riley-thilthorpe","tag-sam-collins","tag-saxon-crozier","tag-shannon-neale","tag-taj-schofield","tag-tanner-bruhn","tag-wil-parker","tag-will-phillips","tag-zac-dumesny","tag-zach-reid","tag-zavier-maher"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57083","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=57083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}