Robey is a midfielder-forward<\/a> with a well-developed body who enjoyed a superb finish to his 2025 season with a premiership with the Eastern Ranges, booting four goals in the grand final. He also had 40 disposals, including three goals, against the Western Jets.<\/p>\nLoading<\/p>\n
\u201cI am still trying to find my feet. There are a lot of moving parts with where I am staying and who I am staying with, and building relationships here with the players is all going to be a challenge,\u201d said Robey, a diehard Bombers supporter who has moved in with Andrew McGrath and his wife.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce I am settled around January, February, it\u2019s going to be really exciting for me to dig deep and really drive the team\u2019s success. I just want to stay fit and healthy, and make sure I am improving every week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robey, the ninth overall selection last week, hopes that improvement leads to selection come round one, declaring he is physically ready but has work to do on his skills and fitness.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, that\u2019s a goal for a lot of the draftees, to play round one. Whether it comes this year [2026], next year, or midway through a year, I don\u2019t mind. If I am playing good football, and Brad is happy to put me in, I will do the role and get then job done,\u201d Robey said.<\/p>\n
Farrow also burst onto the scene this year, impressing with his raking left-foot kicking and ability to intercept. He had three senior games in the second half of the WAFL season with West Perth and also appears ready for AFL life, including cooking his own meals now he has made the \u201cbig move\u201d from Perth.<\/p>\n
\u201cI definitely believe in myself and my capabilities out on the field, and I was able to take my strengths from Colt footy to under-18s footy, then playing some senior footy with West Perth at the end of the season just gone,\u201d Farrow, the 10th overall pick in the draft, said.<\/p>\n
Defender Max Kondogiannis has work to do on his light frame, while small forward Hussien El Achkar<\/a> will also be given time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Loading He also oozes leadership, having captained South Australia from early in his junior representative career, and hopes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-306922","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\/306922","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=306922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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