Jackson has been selected to feature for Western Australia in the February 14 State of Origin clash with Victoria in Perth.<\/p>\n
And with Collingwood ruckman Darcy Cameron also chosen for WA, it means Jackson may get the chance to play as a midfielder against Victoria\u2019s all-star brigade of Marcus Bontempelli, Nick Daicos, Zak Butters, Serong, Matt Rowell and Noah Anderson.<\/p>\n
WA\u2019s midfield unit will feature the likes of captain Patrick Cripps, Chad Warner, Shai Bolton, Kysaiah Pickett and Trent Rivers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe challenge of going up against some of the best players in the comp will only help my game, and I\u2019ll be able to take a lot of learnings out,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to playing with guys like Crippa and all the stars of the comp.\u201d<\/p>\n
And as for lining up against Serong – his midfield mentor of the summer?<\/p>\n
\u201cThat will be good fun – probably ruffle some feathers in there,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be good to play against him. There actually has been a little bit of banter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cox joined Fremantle on a two-year deal after being surprisingly axed by Collingwood at the end of last season, and Jackson was full of praise for the 34-year-old.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlaying as an inside mid with \u2018Swag\u2019, he gets his hand on it a lot. I\u2019m just building chemistry with that every week,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been awesome at Freo. I love playing with him. He\u2019s a great communicator.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe helps my game a lot, gets me in the right positions and he\u2019s got a lot of experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jackson has been selected to feature for Western Australia in the February 14 State of Origin clash with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-448150","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\/448150","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=448150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}