{"id":465714,"date":"2026-02-08T04:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/465714\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T04:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:13:11","slug":"afl-origin-jeremy-cameron-set-to-be-ruled-out-for-victoria-ben-king-to-earn-late-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/465714\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Origin: Jeremy Cameron set to be ruled out for Victoria, Ben King to earn late call-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Western Australia have caught a massive break ahead of their heavyweight clash against Victoria, with reigning Coleman medallist Jeremy Cameron set to be officially ruled out.<\/p>\n

Cameron was among the first players named to be partaking in Origin when squads started getting assembled last year, but has been under a cloud amid recovering from a broken arm he suffered in Geelong\u2019s grand final defeat.<\/p>\n

Just six days out from the clash, it is understood Cameron – whose 736 goals are the most of any current AFL player – will not make the trip west, with Ben King set to replace him.<\/p>\n

King is coming off a career-best season at the Suns, when he booted 71 goals in 25 games and finished runner-up in the Coleman Medal race.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old also has a strong record at Optus Stadium, kicking six goals in Gold Coast\u2019s round-one belting of West Coast at the Perth venue last year.<\/p>\n

\"BenCamera IconBen King had a great 2025. Credit: AAP<\/p>\n

Both Victoria and Western Australia squads are set to gather in Perth on Wednesday ahead of main training on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The visitors are overwhelming $1.38 favourites heading into the game with TABTouch, while Western Australia are paying $3 to claim the upset victory.<\/p>\n

King will be part of a formidable Victorian forward line that will feature Western Bulldogs father-son superstar Sam Darcy, Greater Western Sydney captain Toby Green, Hawthorn veteran Jack Gunston and likely Cats captain Patrick Dangerfield.<\/p>\n

Geelong superstar Bailey Smith was one of the last Victorians to be named in Victoria\u2019s 25-man squad which will also feature Fremantle vice-captain Caleb Serong and reigning Brownlow medallist Matt Rowell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western Australia have caught a massive break ahead of their heavyweight clash against Victoria, with reigning Coleman medallist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,49082,64,63,55,639,588,85],"class_list":["post-465714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-afl-state-of-origin","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465714","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=465714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}