{"id":339760,"date":"2025-12-10T16:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339760\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:26:11","slug":"afl-origin-pickett-to-represent-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339760\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Origin | Pickett to represent WA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                News\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Kysaiah Pickett will present WA in the AFL\u2019s Origin match\n            <\/p>\n<p>MELBOURNE\u2019S Kysaiah Pickett has been selected to represent Western Australia in the AFL\u2019s 2026 AAMI Origin match.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be played on Saturday 14 February at Optus Stadium and is the first time in more than 25 years that the state-based rivalry has returned to the league, having last been played in 1999 when Victoria played South Australia at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old is heading into his seventh season at the top level, having had a career-best year in 2025 that saw him reach All Australian status.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 AFL Origin game will be broadcast on Channel 7 and Fox, as well as 7Plus and Kayo streaming platforms, with all event information found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/origin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Origin.AFL.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WESTERN AUSTRALIA*<br \/>Aaron Naughton\u00a0<br \/>Patrick Cripps<br \/>Shai Bolton<br \/>Tom Barrass<br \/>Chad Warner<br \/>Liam Baker<br \/>Charlie Cameron<br \/>Darcy Cameron<br \/>Jordan Clark<br \/>Bradley Hill<br \/>Jesse Hogan<br \/>Luke Jackson<br \/>Kysaiah Pickett<br \/>Sam Taylor<\/p>\n<p>VICTORIA*<br \/>Zak Butters<br \/>Marcus Bontempelli<br \/>Jeremy Cameron<br \/>Matt Rowell<br \/>Nick Daicos<\/p>\n<p>* more players still to be announced for both squads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News Kysaiah Pickett will present WA in the AFL\u2019s Origin match MELBOURNE\u2019S Kysaiah Pickett has been selected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339761,"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-339760","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\/339760","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=339760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}