{"id":296953,"date":"2025-11-20T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296953\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:48:10","slug":"banger-drafted-by-collingwood-afl-north-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296953\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Banger&#8217; drafted by Collingwood &#8211; AFL North Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive featured-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Banger01-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto: Green Shoots Marketing<\/p>\n<p>FORMER Sawtell\/Toormina player Angus Anderson has created AFL North Coast history by becoming the first male player from the region to be drafted onto the primary list of an AFL club.<\/p>\n<p>The 22 year-old was selected with Pick 57 in the 2025 AFL National Draft by Collingwood.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson played his junior football with the Saints as well as his first foray into the seniors.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Green Shoots Marketing FORMER Sawtell\/Toormina player Angus Anderson has created AFL North Coast history by becoming the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-296953","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\/296953","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=296953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}