{"id":282484,"date":"2025-11-13T20:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/282484\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T20:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:33:20","slug":"cripps-named-for-afl-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/282484\/","title":{"rendered":"Cripps named for AFL Origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Patrick Cripps has been confirmed to be one of the players taking part in next year\u2019s AFL Origin.\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">REPRESENTING the West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">This comes as no surprise: Patrick Cripps has been confirmed to be one of the players taking part in next year\u2019s AFL Origin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Making a return for the first time since 1999, AFL Origin will see Victoria head to Western Australia on Saturday 14 February at Optus Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">And the dual Brownlow Medallist will be front and centre representing his state, as one of four players announced by the AFL on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The Carlton captain has always taken deep pride in his story, coming from Northampton &#8211; a town 500km north of Perth with a population of 800.<\/p>\n<p>                    The Northampton boy will play against the Big V in February 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Come next February, he\u2019ll be going head to head against the \u2018Big V\u2019, with the respective teams to continue to take shape over the coming months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cIt\u2019s a huge honour to be chosen to represent WA,\u201d Cripps said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cThere\u2019s a real excitement around the return of the match and I can\u2019t wait to play alongside Shai, Tom, Aaron and other WA stars come February.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Member presale tickets (AFL and Club members) go on-sale from Tuesday 18 November, with the general public on-sale to launch on Wednesday 19 November. It will be broadcast live on both Channel 7 and FOX FOOTY\/Kayo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Cripps has been confirmed to be one of the players taking part in next year\u2019s AFL Origin.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-282484","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","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282484","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=282484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}