{"id":355299,"date":"2025-12-18T04:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/355299\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T04:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:04:10","slug":"flag-duo-among-seven-more-wa-players-locked-in-for-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/355299\/","title":{"rendered":"Flag duo among seven more WA players locked in for Origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Western Australia has announced seven more players for the 2026 AAMI AFL Origin match against Victoria\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Brandon Starcevich and Callum Ah Chee celebrate after the Grand Final between Geelong and Brisbane at the MCG, September 27, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>BRISBANE premiership pair Callum Ah Chee and Brandon Starcevich will reunite with former teammate Charlie Cameron for the return of State of Origin in February.<\/p>\n<p>Ah Chee and Starcevich won back-to-back flags with the Lions before being traded in October to Adelaide and West Coast respectively, and they will be teammates again for Western Australia in the 2026 AAMI AFL Origin match against Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>ORIGIN TICKETS\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/origin\/tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Get your seats to WA v Victoria<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Port Adelaide forward Mitch Georgiades and defensive quartet Wil Powell (Gold Coast), Trent Rivers (Melbourne), Rory Lobb (Western Bulldogs) and Lawson Humphries (Geelong) have also been locked in to play for WA against the Vics on February 14 at Optus Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The seven players announced on Thursday join the 14 already confirmed for WA, including the likes of Cameron, Kysaiah Pickett, Chad Warner and Patrick Cripps. The remaining WA squad members will be announced in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria has confirmed 14 players so far, with more announcements to come.<\/p>\n<p>WA has also announced Adelaide assistant Nathan van Berlo, the former Crows captain, will join its coaching panel alongside head coach Dean Cox and assistant Justin Longmuir.<\/p>\n<p>West Coast champion Glen Jakovich is chairing the WA selection panel and Melbourne great Garry Lyon doing the same for Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>2026 AAMI AFL Origin squads<\/p>\n<p>WESTERN AUSTRALIA<br \/>Liam Baker<br \/>Tom Barrass<br \/>Shai Bolton<br \/>Charlie Cameron<br \/>Darcy Cameron<br \/>Jordan Clark<br \/>Patrick Cripps<br \/>Bradley Hill<br \/>Jesse Hogan<br \/>Luke Jackson<br \/>Aaron Naughton<br \/>Kozzy Pickett<br \/>Sam Taylor<br \/>Chad Warner<br \/>Callum Ah Chee<br \/>Mitch Georgiades<br \/>Lawson Humphries<br \/>Rory Lobb<br \/>Wil Powell<br \/>Trent Rivers<br \/>Brandon Starcevich<\/p>\n<p>VICTORIA<br \/>Noah Anderson<br \/>Zak Butters<br \/>Marcus Bontempelli<br \/>Jeremy Cameron<br \/>Nick Daicos<br \/>Sam Darcy<br \/>Max Gawn<br \/>Toby Greene<br \/>Max Holmes<br \/>Hugh McCluggage<br \/>Matt Rowell<br \/>Jack Sinclair\u00a0<br \/>Tom Stewart<br \/>Jacob Weitering<\/p>\n<p>* more players still to be announced for both squads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western Australia has announced seven more players for the 2026 AAMI AFL Origin match against Victoria Brandon Starcevich&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":["post-355299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355299","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=355299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}