{"id":869142,"date":"2026-08-26T14:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/869142\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:42:19","slug":"afl-all-austrailan-team-2026-will-ashcroft-among-biggest-snubs-instagram-posts-reaction-from-scott-pendlebury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/869142\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL All-Austrailan team 2026, Will Ashcroft among biggest snubs, Instagram posts, reaction from Scott Pendlebury"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Brisbane<\/a> superstar has raised eyebrows with several Instagram posts after being snubbed for All-Australian honours at the AFL<\/a> awards on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Two-time grand final medal winner Will Ashcroft was one of the unluckiest omissions from the 23-player team unveiled at the ceremony<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Will Ashcroft posted several hilarious images.\u00a0Instagram<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old was beaten to the wing and midfield guernseys by Bailey Smith<\/a>, Marcus Bontempelli<\/a>, Ollie Dempsey, Jordan Dawson, and Nick Daicos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the ceremony he took to Instagram to highlight the selections of his Lions teammates Harris Andrews, Logan Morris, and Zac Bailey.<\/p>\n

But those stories were followed up by several photos of American basketball stars, and of American sports pundit Stephen A. Smith, with questioning expressions on their faces.<\/p>\n

The suggestion is Ashcroft was surprised at his own snub, or that of others.<\/p>\n

His teammate Kai Lohmann had a chuckle either way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a good laugh at his stories, actually. They were very funny,\u201d Lohmann said on B105\u2019s Stav, Abby & Matt.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, he was super, super stiff to not make the team. He\u2019s had one of the best years as a mid, and there\u2019s always so many mids in there, so I thought he would be in there. But yeah, I did have a good laugh when he posted all those stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lohmann himself was a surprise omission, although didn\u2019t make the original 46-player squad.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, I was a bit flat. I thought I had a pretty good year as a small forward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you know (Hawks star) Nick Watson was very deserved and he got in there as well, but yeah I was a little bit flat early on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Collingwood champion Scott Pendlebury was among many shocked at the Ashcroft omission, saying he \u201cshould be in\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ashcroft, Carlton\u2019s Patrick Cripps, and Bulldogs jet Ed Richards all missed out, and were among the big surprises for Melbourne legend Garry Lyon.<\/p>\n

Lyon pointed out the final All-Australian team was vastly different to the one SEN experts had predicted.<\/p>\n

\u201cGee whiz, it was unrecognisable to the team that was named on the night. So there were some surprises there,\u201d Lyon told SEN Breakfast on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI though Will Ashcroft was really stiff. Max Holmes (from Geelong) missed out, he might have been on the cusp of playing enough games or not. Izak Rankine wouldn\u2019t have been too far away, and Patty Cripps I think is unlucky.\u201d<\/p>\n

Essendon legend Tim Watson was fine with the Cripps snub but admitted Richards should have been in the team, given he is one of the highest rated players in the game according to Champion Data.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think that Patty Cripps had an All-Australian year,\u201d Watson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEd Richards, I think would be the one\u2026 someone said he\u2019s the seventh highest player in the AFL. I think he\u2019s one of those guys people quickly overlook, as opposed to really digging in and looking at what he does each and every week.<\/p>\n

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Ed Richards of the Bulldogs.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cBont (Bontempelli) is in the same team and maybe Bont just overshadows some of the stuff he does (for the Bulldogs).\u201d<\/p>\n

The unveiling of the 46-player squad on Monday had already raised eyebrows.<\/p>\n

The likes of North Melbourne young gun Harry Sheezel weren\u2019t even in the squad, and former selector Kane Cornes wonders why the 46-player list was even made public.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure why we have the squad… the squad is pointless to me,\u201d Cornes said on Seven.<\/p>\n

2026 All-Australian team<\/p>\n

Backline:\u00a0Wayne Milera, Callum Wilkie, Jarman Impey<\/p>\n

Half back: Lachie Ash, Harris Andrews, Jordan Clark<\/p>\n

Centre:\u00a0Bailey Smith, Marcus Bontempelli, Oliver Dempsey<\/p>\n

Half forward:\u00a0Shai Bolton, Josh Treacy, Kysaiah Pickett<\/p>\n

Forward: Nick Watson, Charlie Curnow, Logan Morris<\/p>\n

Fol: Max Gawn, Jordan Dawson and Nick Daicos<\/p>\n

Interchange:\u00a0Luke Jackson, Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera, Murphy Reid, Zac Bailey, Zak Butters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brisbane superstar has raised eyebrows with several Instagram posts after being snubbed for All-Australian honours at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-869142","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\/869142","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=869142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}