{"id":295167,"date":"2025-11-19T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295167\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:18:08","slug":"falcons-gun-gets-afl-chance-with-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295167\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons gun gets AFL chance with Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geelong Falcon Josh Lindsay will live out his AFL dream across the Nullarbor after being selected by the West Coast Eagles with pick 19 in tonight\u2019s National Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The elite kicking defender\/midfielder was watching at his Leopold home when his name was called out, with family and friends swamping the talented 18-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles traded up a place to land Lindsay, securing Hawthorn\u2019s selection, which sent a 2026 second-round pick \u2013 tied to St Kilda.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after this ad<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/8806843-2025-k-rock-football-falcons-in-focus-josh-lindsay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PODCAST: FALCONS IN FOCUS \u2013 JOSH LINDSAY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lindsay, who played juniors with Geelong league clubs Leopold and Newtown &amp; Chilwell, has been highly-touted in the past 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>He was best-on-ground in the Under-17 Futures match on Grand Final day in 2024 and repeated the dose with Australia in the AFL Academy match against VFL club Coburg earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Geelong Grammar scholarship holder was captain of the Falcons and Vic Country this year.<\/p>\n<p>He was named in the Talent League Team of the Year and the All-Australian team following the Under-18 National Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after this ad<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay is the first Falcon to join the Eagles since Jackson Nelson in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJosh is an outstanding left-foot kick who we rated highly, and when he was still on the board, we were keen to move up and secure him,\u201d Eagles recruiting boss Duane Massey said.<\/p>\n<p>X: @krockfootball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geelong Falcon Josh Lindsay will live out his AFL dream across the Nullarbor after being selected by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-295167","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295167","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=295167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}