\n Matt Rowell\u2019s incredible 2025 continues to reach new heights, today selected to represent Victoria in February\u2019s\u00a02026 AAMI AFL Origin match.\n <\/p>\n
Matt Rowell\u2019s incredible 2025 continues to reach new heights, today selected to represent Victoria in February\u2019s\u00a02026 AAMI AFL Origin match.<\/p>\n
Rowell was today announced as a headliner in the Big V squad for February\u2019s clash between Victoria and Western Australia at Optus Stadium following a remarkable 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n
After playing an integral role in the SUNS charge to its first AFL finals campaign, Rowell made history to become the Gold Coast SUNS\u2019 second Brownlow Medal winner in record-breaking style before also claiming his first Club Champion and a maiden All Australian blazer.<\/p>\n
Rowell joins fellow midfielders Marcus Bontempelli and Zak Butters as well as Geelong forward Jeremy Cameron as confirmed inclusions for Victoria.<\/p>\n
SUNS Senior Coach Damien Hardwick, who coached Victoria in the State of Origin for Bushfire Relief Match in 2020, is thrilled to see Rowell selected.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it were up to me, he\u2019d be one of the first names on the team sheet and it\u2019s great to see that I\u2019m not alone in saying that,\u201d Hardwick said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMatt has thrived on the big stage for the Gold Coast SUNS and there are few players more suited to an Origin arena.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s fantastic to see a new generation of players earning the opportunity to represent their state and I\u2019m sure it will be a proud moment for both Matt and his family to see him pull on the Big V.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tickets for the AAMI AFL Origin are on sale at Tuesday,18 November for AFL and Club members at 11am (QLD) following by general public on sale on Wednesday, 19 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Rowell\u2019s incredible 2025 continues to reach new heights, today selected to represent Victoria in February\u2019s\u00a02026 AAMI AFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282737,"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-282736","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\/282736","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=282736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}