New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cRepresenting the state means a lot to me, and I can\u2019t wait to lead the team out at Optus Stadium in front of our home crowd and hopefully make them proud,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Bontempelli, who\u2019s led the Bulldogs since 2020, said he was privileged to captain a star-studded team.<\/p>\n
\u201cPulling on the Big V has always been a huge honour, and to be given the opportunity to captain Victoria is something I\u2019ll cherish,\u201d Bontempelli said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a deep history and pride that comes with representing your state, and I\u2019m looking forward to leading some of Victoria\u2019s best footballers on February 14.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marcus Bontempelli of the Bulldogs and Garry Lyon, Victorian Chair of Selectors. Picture: Michael Willson\/AFL Photos via Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Bontempelli will lead Victoria under coach Chris Scott, with Cripps named captain of the WA side coached by Dean Cox.<\/p>\n
Cripps and Bontempelli headline a host of stars already confirmed to represent their home states.<\/p>\n
Bontempelli is set to run out alongside the likes of Jeremy Cameron, Patrick Dangerfield, Nick Daicos, Zach Merrett, Zak Butters and fellow Bulldog Sam Darcy, while Cripps will link up with fellow stars like Kysaiah Pickett, Luke Jackson and Chad Warner.<\/p>\n
More players are expected to be added to both Western Australia and Victoria\u2019s squads before the return of Origin football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of the AFL\u2019s biggest superstars have been unveiled as their respective states\u2019 captains for next month\u2019s Origin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,689,55,639,3423,12923,12148,10145,2105,109671,12141,54358,36099,70801,15626,7198,677,222600,7800,39209,85,3439,698,25581,23510],"class_list":["post-430526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-waterworth","tag-chris-scott","tag-dean-cox","tag-garry-lyon","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-home-states","tag-jeremy-cameron","tag-knee-injury-scare","tag-knee-surgery","tag-kysaiah-pickett","tag-luke-jackson","tag-michael-willson","tag-oceania","tag-origin-match","tag-patrick-cripps","tag-patrick-dangerfield","tag-sports","tag-western-australia","tag-western-bulldogs","tag-zach-merrett","tag-zak-butters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430526","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=430526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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