{"id":78866,"date":"2021-04-07T08:58:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T22:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afl.draftcentral.localhost\/?p=78866"},"modified":"2021-06-01T12:25:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T02:25:02","slug":"2021-nab-league-boys-player-of-the-week-round-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2021\/04\/07\/2021-nab-league-boys-player-of-the-week-round-1\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 NAB League Boys Player of the Week: Round 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EASTERN Ranges&#8217; <strong>Tyler Sonsie<\/strong> has earned the Draft Central Round 1 NAB League Boys Player of the Week nomination after winning the vote against fellow Top 10 talent, Oakleigh Chargers&#8217; <strong>Nick<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Daicos<\/strong> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/AFLDraftCentral\">AFL Draft Central Facebook group<\/a>. Sonsie is one of the few draft-eligible talents in his 18th year who did get to debut at NAB League level a couple of years ago, playing six games in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Being integral in Eastern Ranges&#8217; push to the 2019 NAB League Boys Grand Final Sonsie averaged 11 disposals, 2.0 marks, 1.7 clearances, 2.3 inside 50s, 2.3 tackles and booted three goals from his bottom-age season. After missing out on playing last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sonsie made up for lost time with a huge effort in Eastern&#8217;s big win over Calder Canons on the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Sonsie had a round-high 34 disposals to go with six marks, six inside 50s, two tackles, two rebounds and two goals in a complete performance. The 18-year-old talent is one of the smoothest movers with nice skills and composure, and will be one of a number of Vic Metro midfielders looking to bring the AFL Under 18 Championships title back to Victoria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scouting notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By: Ed Pascoe<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sonsie reminded everyone why he is considered one of the top five prospects in the 2021 draft with a dominant display in the midfield, showing his trademark attacking nature and class in a strong four-quarter performance. Sonsie was a clearance specialist in the first quarter, winning plenty of the ball in-close and dishing off cleanly by hand. It wasn\u2019t his usual style of winning the ball and attacking by foot, but he was effective nonetheless&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/afl.draftcentral.com.au\/2021\/04\/06\/scouting-notes-2021-nab-league-round-1\/\">[ READ FULL SCOUTING NOTES ]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eastern Ranges have a tough ask in Round 2, going up against a hungry Oakleigh Chargers side that fell short against Sandringham Dragons in Round 1. The match will take place from 1:30pm at Preston City Oval, before the Ranges cross the Bass Strait to take on Tasmania Devils on the Apple Isle in Round 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DRAFT CENTRAL PLAYER OF THE WEEK:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Round 1:<\/strong> Tyler Sonsie (Eastern Ranges)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EASTERN Ranges&#8217; Tyler Sonsie has earned the Draft Central Round 1 NAB League Boys Player of the Week nomination after winning the vote against fellow Top 10 talent, Oakleigh Chargers&#8217; Nick\u00a0Daicos in the AFL Draft Central Facebook group. Sonsie is one of the few draft-eligible talents in his 18th year who did get to debut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":56104,"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":[11589,7949,8],"tags":[9565,46,161,8215,9110],"class_list":["post-78866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eastern-ranges","category-nab-league","category-news","tag-draft-central-nab-league-boys-player-of-the-week","tag-eastern-ranges","tag-josh-daicos","tag-nab-league-boys","tag-tyler-sonsie"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78866","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=78866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}