{"id":294675,"date":"2025-11-19T10:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/294675\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:57:08","slug":"afl-draft-live-updates-west-coast-eagles-land-willem-duursma-with-no-1-selection-then-cooper-duff-tytler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/294675\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Draft live updates: West Coast Eagles land Willem Duursma with No.1 selection, then Cooper Duff-Tytler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">West Coast Eagles list manager Matt Clarke said he was happy with how the first round went and added they didn\u2019t force clubs to use their picks to match bids, just picked the best player at the position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">He also said the Eagles may look at trading up and down tomorrow to secure their own academy players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cIt\u2019s much easier when your picking right at the top,\u201d he told Fox Footy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe\u2019re really happy. It was a really even group at the top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cIf we feel they deserve to be picked their we\u2019ll bid on them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Coast Eagles list manager Matt Clarke said he was happy with how the first round went and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,10124,588,85,7067],"class_list":["post-294675","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-fremantle-dockers","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-west-coast-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294675","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=294675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}