Get your seats to WA v Victoria<\/a><\/p>\nNow, ahead of his seventh season and fresh off leading the Suns to their maiden finals appearance, it’s the younger Anderson’s turn to represent his state.<\/p>\n
“Dad said he barely got on, back in the day when the interchange was a bit different,” Noah told\u00a0AFL.com.au\u00a0with a chuckle.<\/p>\n
“He sat on the bench for a while.<\/p>\n
“It was pretty cool when I was talking to him. I’ll need to talk a bit more about the history of it.<\/p>\n
Noah Anderson in action during the match between Carlton and Gold Coast at Marvel Stadium in round 22, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
“It’s such a surreal opportunity to represent Victoria. I don’t think it will feel real until I actually get the jumper and run out there and see who you’re playing with.”<\/p>\n
Anderson will be familiar with a couple of his teammates, with best friend Matt Rowell selected, along with their former Carey Grammar school teammate, Nick Daicos.<\/p>\n
“Any time you get selected in a group of players you admire and look up to is so cool and an opportunity you have to jump at,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Growing up and playing for Victoria in schoolboys and under-16s and 18s, you probably don’t think you’re ever going to do it again.<\/p>\n
“It’s a fair midfield. Being among that amount of pedigree and talent and level of experience is pretty cool.”<\/p>\n
Matt Rowell, Nick Daicos and Noah Anderson. Picture: Supplied<\/p>\n
Missing just three games since his debut in 2020, and on a streak of 85 consecutively at the moment, Anderson said this pre-season had a been a little different to date.<\/p>\n
“We played a bit later in the year, so I’m just trying to time my run a little bit and accelerate into January a bit more when I get back,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s a new experience. I’m used to, individually and as a club, flying in December, which is what we had to do to build a base of work ethic and set the standard.<\/p>\n
“It was a longer year last year and I’ve had five or six years of playing every game and understanding that’s a lot for the body and the legs, so I’m doing a little less volume at this time of year to hopefully help me fresh in the back end of the year when hopefully we’re playing finals.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noah Anderson will get his chance to represent Victoria in February \u2013 and he doesn’t have to look…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398279,"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-398278","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\/398278","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=398278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}