{"id":554072,"date":"2026-03-21T02:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554072\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T02:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:52:11","slug":"stacked-eagles-aflw-draft-prospects-highlight-sunday-pre-season-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554072\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacked Eagles, AFLW draft prospects highlight Sunday pre-season teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Coast have picked their strongest WAFL side in a long time for Sunday\u2019s pre-season clash against East Fremantle at Mineral Resources Park.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles will have 14 AFL-listed players at their disposal including premiership defender Tom Cole and former Adelaide Crow Harry Schoenberg who returns from suspension as he pushes his case for a club debut for West Coast\u2019s AFL side.<\/p>\n<p>Top mid-season draft pick Ryan Maric, ex-Collingwood ball magnet Fin Macrae and former Carlton small forward Matt Owies are among the other notable names in the side.<\/p>\n<p>WAFL recruits including captain and former West Coast AFL utility Callum Jamieson, West Perth premiership goalsneak Sasha Kernutt, Archie Watt, Sam Cipriani and Corey Hitchcock were also included.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED ARTICLES<\/p>\n<p>Malakai Champion remains in the WAFL, despite catching the eye in last week\u2019s pre-season match with 3.2 against reigning champs South Freo.<\/p>\n<p>Prolific midfielder Tom Joyce returns for East Fremantle against his former team as things ramp up ahead of their Good Friday season opener against Peel Thunder in Mandurah.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s plenty of new recruits in the Sharks\u2019 line-up including former Essendon livewire Oskar Smartt, ex-SANFL player Liam Robinson and former Brisbane Lions VFL talent Joel Budarick.<\/p>\n<p>The clash will be the last of week three of the WAFL pre-season, with four matches being played on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wafootball.com.au\/news\/big-cox-ex-eagles-speedster-draft-fancy-among-wafl-pre-season-inclusions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Check out the Saturday WAFL preview here including Collingwood premiership tall Mason Cox\u2019s Thunder debut and a South Fremantle draft prospect\u2019s first taste of senior action.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A host of AFLW draft prospects return from State 18s duties in Sunday\u2019s WAFLW clash between Perth and Peel Thunder at Mineral Resources Park.<\/p>\n<p>Rebounding defender Mia Carlshausen headlines the Demons\u2019 ins alongside small forward and fellow draft aspirant Mel Grage.<\/p>\n<p>For the Thunder, Charlise Adams, Zaide Wilson and Maya Walsh are among the young guns returning.<\/p>\n<p>The AAMI WA Football Girls Summer Squad <a href=\"https:\/\/wafootball.com.au\/news\/aami-girls-summer-squad-finishes-on-a-high\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">are coming off a win over the Thunder last week.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Coast have picked their strongest WAFL side in a long time for Sunday\u2019s pre-season clash against East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-554072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554072","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=554072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}