{"id":190066,"date":"2025-10-04T18:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190066\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T18:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:38:12","slug":"williams-named-best-afield-for-team-boak-in-boys-futures-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190066\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams named best afield for Team Boak in Boys Futures clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GEELONG Falcons speedster Noah Williams has claimed best on ground for Team Boak in the annual Under-17 Boys Futures match at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p>Team Boak, named after Port Adelaide great Travis Boak, knocked off Team Docherty, named after retiring Blue Sam, by 13 points to kick off Grand Final day.<\/p>\n<p>The match is a showcase of the best players eligible for the 2026 AFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>Williams (St Joseph\u2019s) gathered 17 important disposals from the wing for the winning side and was especially dominant early.<\/p>\n<p>The best afield award on the biggest day of the year sets the 17-year-old up for the 2026 season, where he will put his best foot forward in a pursuit to land on an AFL list.<\/p>\n<p>Williams played 10 games for the Falcons as a bottom-ager and averaged just under 13 disposals and 5.8 tackles.<\/p>\n<p>He was particularly influential in the side\u2019s thrilling wildcard final win over Bendigo, picking up 15 touches and laying 12 tackles.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Falcon Jack Pickett (Torquay) also featured in the exhibition match on Team Docherty and kicked two goals, the equal-most for his side.<\/p>\n<p>Pickett played eight games for the Falcons and kicked 31 goals for the season, including a bag of seven in Round 15 against the Western Jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GEELONG Falcons speedster Noah Williams has claimed best on ground for Team Boak in the annual Under-17 Boys&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-190066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190066","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=190066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}