{"id":228731,"date":"2025-10-21T00:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/228731\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T00:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:42:15","slug":"chris-scott-and-dean-cox-named-victoria-and-western-australia-coaches-for-afl-origin-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/228731\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Scott and Dean Cox named Victoria and Western Australia coaches for AFL Origin match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Chris Scott and Dean Cox have been appointed as the respective State of Origin coaches for next February&#8217;s standalone exhibition match in Perth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Two-time premiership coach Scott will take charge of Victoria, while Cox will lead Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The two AFL Origin squads will be announced in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Players will be selected based on the junior club from where they were drafted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It will be the first men&#8217;s State of Origin match since Victoria played South Australia in 1999.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-09-15\/afl-announces-state-of-origin-return-with-wa-vic-clash-confirmed\/105773392\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL announces State of Origin return<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon confirms Western Australia will play Victoria in Perth next February in the first State of Origin match since 1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Victoria and Western Australia have not played each other since 1992.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Scott \u2014 who grew up in Melbourne \u2014 will bring to the &#8220;Big V&#8221; his experience of winning two flags as Geelong coach, in 2011 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He also guided the Cats to grand final appearances in 2020 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Cox, who just finished his first season as Sydney Swans coach, came through the WAFL ranks as a player before making his AFL debut with West Coast in 2001.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was a member of the Eagles&#8217; 2006 premiership-winning squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;I&#8217;m a proud Western Australian and grew up watching State of Origin footy, so this is a real privilege to lead the team in February against the Vics,&#8221; Cox said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;We have a very strong contingent of WA boys playing at the top level so it&#8217;s not going to be easy to pick a side, but we feel we will take it right up to Victoria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;I love the fact the concept is back, and I can&#8217;t wait for the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Both Cox and Scott will select three assistant coaches and a high-performance manager ahead of the February 14 match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Scott and Dean Cox have been appointed as the respective State of Origin coaches for next February&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[10968,638,64,63,55,9117,639,12923,12148,85,6405,660,25962,3439],"class_list":{"0":"post-228731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-10968","9":"tag-afl","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-australian-football-league","13":"tag-australian-rules","14":"tag-australianfootballleague","15":"tag-chris-scott","16":"tag-dean-cox","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-state-of-origin","19":"tag-victoria","20":"tag-wa","21":"tag-western-australia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228731","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=228731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}