{"id":20423,"date":"2025-07-25T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20423\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:00:18","slug":"afl-draft-potential-pick-1-prospect-collingwood-father-son-cats-tied-teenager-among-ins-for-vfl-action-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20423\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Draft: Potential Pick 1 prospect, Collingwood father-son, Cats-tied teenager among ins for VFL action – AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gold Coast Academy talent Zeke Uwland will return to the VFL this weekend for the Suns’ state league level QClash, which will be the potential Pick 1 selection’s first game of 2025.<\/p>\n

Uwland has been dealing with a back injury that saw him miss the Suns Academy’s Coates Talent League campaign and the Allies’ U18s National Championships carnival.<\/p>\n

The 2024 U18s All-Australian entered the year highly touted, having enjoyed a stellar bottom-age season that has kept him in the mix toward the top of this year’s draft class.<\/p>\n

Last year, Uwland played five VFL games for the Suns, including a performance against Brisbane’s reserves that saw him amass 16 disposals, six marks and a goal against Gold Coast’s Queensland counterpart.<\/p>\n

The exciting flanker won’t be the only Suns-tied 2025 prospect to feature at Carrara on Saturday morning, with fellow Academy prospects Koby Coulson, Cooper Collins and Jonah Harris also named to play.<\/p>\n

\"AFL2024 Marsh AFL<\/a> National Championships All Australian<\/a> representative Zeke Uwland will feature in this week’s trials for the 2024 Marsh AFL<\/a> Futures game. Photo: Rob Lawson\/AFL<\/a> Photos<\/p>\n

Their Allies teammates Tyan Prindable and Dan Annable have also been named for Brisbane in a contest that includes 29 AFL-listed players.<\/p>\n

Saturday night’s affair between Collingwood and Frankston will see Magpies father-son Tom McGuane, son of premiership player Mick, don the black and white stripes for the first time.<\/p>\n

McGuane, an exciting inside-outside midfielder, is placed as a late first-round or second-round prospect for this year’s draft after a strong year to date with the Western Jets.<\/p>\n

The Pies-tied teenager is set to feature alongside Jordan De Goey<\/a>, Bobby Hill<\/a> and Billy Frampton<\/a> among the inclusions for Collingwood’s VFL side this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Geelong will get their first look at Next Generation Academy talent Jesse Mellor in the VFL when the lively half-forward suits up for his first game in the hoops.<\/p>\n

Mellor enjoyed a strong 2025 U18s National Championships with Vic Country, booting eight goals from his four games to be named in the U18s All-Australian team.<\/p>\n

That spell came after a strong start to the year with the Geelong Falcons and Vic Country’s trial squad, with Mellor booting six goals in a game against the Young Guns when featuring for the latter.<\/p>\n

\"MELBOURNE,MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – JUNE 28: Jesse Mellor of Vic Country runs with the ball during the Victorian Diversity All-Stars U18 Boys match between Vic Country and Vic Metro at Warrawee Park on June 28, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Josh Chadwick\/AFL Photos\/via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Mellor has been named as the 23rd player for Geelong’s reserves side to take on North Melbourne at Arden Street, with the Cats also naming AFL-listed quartet Mitch Knevitt<\/a>, George Stevens<\/a>, Ollie Wiltshire and Joe Pike<\/a> as inclusions for the game.<\/p>\n

The Cats and Kangaroos will go head-to-head at 12:05pm (AEST), with both sides looking to close in on the top 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gold Coast Academy talent Zeke Uwland will return to the VFL this weekend for the Suns’ state league…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-20423","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\/20423","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=20423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}