FOUR Geelong Falcons will push their draft hopes after being listed in the AFL National and State Combines, which will take place later this year.<\/p>\n
Josh Lindsay (Newtown & Chilwell), Jesse Mellor (Geelong West) and Hugo Mikunda (Bell Park) will feature at the National Combine in Melbourne, which runs from October 3 to October 5.<\/p>\n
Ben Rongdit (Colac) will attend the State Combine in Melbourne on October 5.<\/p>\n
The Combine involves players from across Australia engaging in physical testing and interviews with AFL clubs, ahead of the National Draft in November.<\/p>\n
Lindsay, Mellor and Mikunda all represented Victoria Country in the recent under-18 Boys Championship. Rongdit was named in the squad, however did not feature in the tournament due to injury.<\/p>\n
Lindsay has been in top ten discussions for the coming draft, and is known for his elite kicking skills and composure. He was named in the All-Australian team for the under-18 tournament, and finished equal-fifth in the Larke Medal.<\/p>\n
Mellor was also named in the All-Australian side and kicked eight goals across Victoria Country\u2019s four matches, with two three-goal hauls.<\/p>\n
Mikunda also featured in all four matches at the under-18 competition, which included a strong performance against state rivals Victoria Metro where he kicked two goals to go with 22 disposals.<\/p>\n
Rongdit is a high-flying medium defender and has impressed in his matches for the Geelong Falcons in the Coates Talent League and Geelong Grammar in the APS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOUR Geelong Falcons will push their draft hopes after being listed in the AFL National and State Combines,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-34232","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34232","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=34232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}