{"id":444042,"date":"2026-01-29T00:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444042\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T00:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:39:10","slug":"son-of-bulldogs-great-links-up-with-afl-squad-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444042\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of Bulldogs great links up with AFL squad – AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A father-son prospect with a famous name has made an appearance at Western Bulldogs<\/a> training this week, with 2026 draft hopeful Levi West, son of club great Scott, linking up with the Dogs’ pre-season program.<\/p>\n

At the Kennel on Wednesday, the teenager was handed the chance to train with Luke Beveridge’s engine room ensemble, slotting in next to skipper Marcus Bontempelli<\/a> and finding a mentor in emerging Bulldog Ryley Sanders<\/a> with some one-on-one time at the end of the session.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The young midfielder, who may follow in the footsteps of his seven-time best and fairest father and older brother, Rhylee, in pulling on the red, white and blue, is coming off a promising bottom-aged draft campaign with the Calder Cannons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Levi played nine Coates Talent League games as a 16-year-old, averaging 12.0 disposals, 7.0 contested possessions, 3.1 clearances and 3.1 tackles last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That spell added to his commitments with Carey Grammar and local club Strathmore in the Essendon District Football League.\u00a0<\/p>\n

West, who is eligible as a father-son selection at the Western Bulldogs<\/a>, is one half of a pairing of promising prospects that are tied to the club, with Western Jets small forward Khaled El Souki part of the Dogs’ Next Generation Academy.<\/p>\n

The latter has been named in the Vic Metro summer squad ahead of the 2026 season, having booted 19 goals in his 15 CTL games last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Dogs held onto their first, second and third-round picks for 2026, and sent their fourth-round selection to West Coast.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A father-son prospect with a famous name has made an appearance at Western Bulldogs training this week, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-444042","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\/444042","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=444042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}