{"id":132326,"date":"2025-09-10T08:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132326\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:24:10","slug":"banchs-mark-makes-final-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132326\/","title":{"rendered":"Banch\u2019s mark makes final three"},"content":{"rendered":"

Banch\u2019s mark was in round 21 against St Kilda. With his eyes fixed on the ball, the No.45 launched himself into a contest with Saint Ryan Byrnes at half-back, clunking the mark on his chest before crashing to the turf.<\/p>\n

The spectacular effort secures Banch a place among three finalists alongside Western Bulldogs pair Sam Darcy and Buku Khamis for this year’s award.<\/p>\n

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With his eyes fixed on the ball Banch courageously launched himself into a contest with Saint Ryan Byrnes at half-back to take this mark.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a whirlwind year for Banch. After winning 2024 VFL premiership with Werribee, Banch was snapped up by the Kangaroos with pick two in this season’s AFL Mid-Season Rookie Draft.<\/p>\n

He went on to make four appearances under senior coach Alastair Clarkson, debuting in Round 19 against Sydney at the SCG.<\/p>\n

Voting is now open, with the overall winner determined by a combination of votes from the AFL All-Australian selection panel and the public.<\/p>\n

The winner will be revealed at the Brownlow Medal on Monday, September 22.<\/p>\n

Everyone who votes for their favourite mark will also have a chance to win $5,000 thanks to Virgin Australia.<\/p>\n

You can vote for Banch\u2019s mark at www.afl.com.au\/mark-of-the-yea<\/a>r<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Banch\u2019s mark was in round 21 against St Kilda. With his eyes fixed on the ball, the No.45…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-132326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}