\n East Fremantle star Milan Murdock has earned his chance at the West Coast Eagles\n <\/p>\n
\n By westcoasteagles.com.au\n <\/p>\n
WAFL star Milan Murdock\u2019s AFL dream has been realised after being listed by the West Coast Eagles in the Supplemental Selection Period.<\/p>\n
A standout for East Fremantle and the WA State team in recent seasons, Murdock has been knocking on the door of an AFL call-up, and his perseverance has paid off.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust over the moon, absolutely,\u201d Murdock said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt almost felt like the dream was close to being over. I was never going to give up anyway, but then \u2018Mini\u2019 (Andrew McQualter) just called me on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was at work and he just said \u2018Look, mate, it’s your last day on the tools, you’re going to be wearing the blue and gold this year\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cI worked just extremely hard the last 15 years, so for this to happen, it’s just a massive relief.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd now the hard work really starts as well, so I’m just more eager than ever just to have a crack.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Eagles opened a list spot to recruit Murdock ahead of Monday\u2019s SSP deadline following a season-ending knee injury suffered by Noah Long, who was moved to the inactive list.<\/p>\n
Murdock has made his name as a ball magnet and tackling machine in the WAFL, and averaged 27.4 disposals and 7.8 tackles last season, while kicking nine goals.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old was named best afield in East Fremantle\u2019s 2023 Grand Final victory and claimed back-to-back Simpson Medals as WA\u2019s best in the win over South Australia last season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been tracking Milan closely for several years now and we\u2019re thrilled to offer him a spot on our list for the 2026 season,\u201d Head of List Management and Recruiting Matt Clarke said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMilan is a fiercely determined footballer who has shown outstanding resilience to overcome setbacks and keep performing at an elite standard to continue knocking on the door for an AFL opportunity.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we are incredibly disappointed for Noah that his season is over, the silver lining is that Milan gets a chance on our AFL list, and we know he will give it everything he has got.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"East Fremantle star Milan Murdock has earned his chance at the West Coast Eagles By westcoasteagles.com.au WAFL star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-508308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508308","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=508308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}