{"id":68764,"date":"2020-06-26T13:28:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T03:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afl.draftcentral.localhost\/?p=68764"},"modified":"2020-06-26T13:28:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T03:28:34","slug":"qa-blake-howes-sandringham-dragons-vic-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2020\/06\/26\/qa-blake-howes-sandringham-dragons-vic-metro\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A: Blake Howes (Sandringham Dragons\/Vic Metro)"},"content":{"rendered":"

AS the postponement of all seasons commenced over the last few weeks, we head back to the pre-season where we sat down with a number of athletes across the country. In a special Question and Answer (Q&A) feature,\u00a0Draft Central<\/em>\u2018s\u00a0Michael Alvaro<\/em><\/strong> chatted with Sandringham Dragons’ Blake Howes<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0at the NAB League Fitness Testing Day hosted by\u00a0Rookie Me<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The medium-forward prospect impressed during last year’s Under 16 National Championships, hitting the scoreboard as a hard-working, high-marking lead-up option in Vic Metro’s undefeated carnival winning side. Howes will be looking to crack into Sandringham’s Under 18 line-up this season, and is one of eight Dragons currently involved in the Victorian Academy hubs.<\/p>\n

Read what the impressive bottom-ager had to say about his journey so far and the year ahead in our latest Q&A.<\/p>\n

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MA: Blake, how’s the day been so far?<\/strong><\/p>\n

BH: “Pretty good. We’re just doing the multiple different tests, I’ve enjoyed it with the boys. It’s been a good day so far.”<\/p>\n

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In terms of your footy you\u2019re coming off a strong Under 16 campaign, how was the week up in Queensland for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It was a good week up on the Gold Coast. We played at the GABBA and Southport – which was pissing down that day, terrible weather – but I really enjoyed the week, meeting new guys and different coaches. It was a really, really good experience, I loved it.”<\/p>\n

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Are you looking to crack into the Sandringham Under 18 side now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Yes, for sure. Hopefully I get a few games here and there but I’ve just got to continue to work hard, keep training well and hope to impress the coaches.”<\/p>\n

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What kind of role are you looking to lock down?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Probably that half-forward (role) high up the ground. Just using my work-rate, getting up and down the ground.”<\/p>\n

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Are there any goals you’re looking to tick off along the way?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“No, just to keep playing consistent footy I suppose. Showing what I can do and helping the team out. Just to have fun as well, that’s the main thing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AS the postponement of all seasons commenced over the last few weeks, we head back to the pre-season where we sat down with a number of athletes across the country. In a special Question and Answer (Q&A) feature,\u00a0Draft Central\u2018s\u00a0Michael Alvaro chatted with Sandringham Dragons’ Blake Howes\u00a0at the NAB League Fitness Testing Day hosted by\u00a0Rookie Me. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":68765,"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":[278,7949,11596],"tags":[12045,11584,24,9111,10162,2964,7951,11583,11827,42,1880],"class_list":["post-68764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-articles","category-nab-league","category-sandringham-dragons","tag-12045","tag-2020-vic-metro-hub","tag-afl-academy","tag-blake-howes","tag-draft-central","tag-feature","tag-nab-league","tag-qa","tag-qna","tag-sandringham-dragons","tag-vic-metro"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68764","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=68764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}