{"id":730907,"date":"2026-06-12T02:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730907\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T02:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:25:11","slug":"afl-greats-set-to-put-on-the-boots-for-blackburn-norwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730907\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL GREATS SET TO PUT ON THE BOOTS FOR BLACKBURN &#038; NORWOOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f3b417_2309d292d2a64ab0995de25be873b751~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%;max-width:100%;position:absolute;left:0;top:0\" data-pin-url=\"https:\/\/www.efnl.org.au\/afl-greats-set-to-put-on-the-boots-for-blackburn-norwood\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/f3b417_2309d292d2a64ab0995de25be873b751~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_1080,h_1350,al_c,q_85\/f3b417_2309d292d2a64ab0995de25be873b751~mv2.jpg\" draggable=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"-Q4aO hw1z8 DcaPr o-zp-\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-qe79r485\">Two big former AFL stars are set to hit the field tomorrow afternoon in the Eastern Football Netball League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"-Q4aO hw1z8 DcaPr o-zp-\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-ai1p4456\">Port Adelaide\u2019s 387 game star Travis Boak will trade the teal, white and black for the red and the black as he joins Blackburn, while St. Kilda and Western Bulldogs former key forward Josh Bruce will take the field for the Norwood FNC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"-Q4aO hw1z8 DcaPr o-zp-\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-t9pfq460\">Blackburn face South Belgrave at Morton Park tomorrow afternoon in another big Premier Division clash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"-Q4aO hw1z8 DcaPr o-zp-\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-8ewam537\">They add in an AFL great in Travis Boak, the Port Adelaide Football Club record games holder and the seventh most games played in VFL\/AFL history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"-Q4aO hw1z8 DcaPr o-zp-\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-ra9do857\">Full of accolades, Boak is a three-time All Australian, and a three-time Port Adelaide Best and Fairest winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"-Q4aO hw1z8 DcaPr o-zp-\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-w5jor464\">Josh Bruce will join a Norwood side who are seeking their first win of season 2026, heading to Lewis Park tomorrow afternoon to face Bayswater. <\/p>\n<p class=\"-Q4aO hw1z8 DcaPr o-zp-\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-crwyy3244\">The senior men\u2019s side is eager to end a 38 game losing streak which dates back to Round Seven of the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"-Q4aO hw1z8 DcaPr o-zp-\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-5cwcn468\">Bruce kicked 234 goals for both the Western Bulldogs and St. Kilda Football Clubs, his biggest tally back in 2015 at the Saints, 50 goals in a season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"-Q4aO hw1z8 DcaPr o-zp-\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-wvq9z472\">The two Ex-AFL players join a list of 40 former AFL players running around for clubs in our Premier,One, Two and Three divisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two big former AFL stars are set to hit the field tomorrow afternoon in the Eastern Football Netball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-730907","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\/730907","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=730907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}