Under-19 representative squad announced


Published on Friday, April 20, 2018

The Northern Football Netball League has announced its under-19 representative squad for the 2018 WorkSafe AFL Victoria Community Championships.

Forty-six players have been selected in the squad ahead of the NFNL’s clash with the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League at Preston City Oval on Saturday May 19.

The squad features players from as 21 different clubs, although no member of the squad has previously represented the league at under-19 level.

Three-time Greensborough under-19 premiership mentor Rod Cann will again coach the NFNL under-19 representative side this year.

Cann said he was impressed with the squad that had been assembled.

“We’ve got guys who have been playing in all grades. Some of the guys have been playing in the seniors this year, some in reserves and some in the under-19s,” he said.

“It’s going to be exciting for us to see some new blood coming through and seeing what’s around the league.

“I think the under-19s competition has gotten a little bit stronger this year with the number of sides that are running around and the addition of a couple of teams.”

Cann said he was looking forward to the squad coming together for its first training session on Monday April 30 but conceded it would be a tough task to reduce the squad to 24 players on match day.

“We’re already tried to look at a few of the guys in practice matches or the first round or two and will obviously look at more of the guys in the next few weeks from a match perspective,” he said.

“We will also take into account their training and how they fit in to the mix of the side.

“It’s always a difficult task narrowing the squad of 46 down to 24.

“We tend to get a lot of midfielders nominated by the clubs, because that is generally where a lot of the better players come from.

“But we have to work hard to get the right mix, which is always challenging.”

To view the NFNL under-19 representative squad, please click on the link below.

DOWNLOAD: 2018 NFNL UNDER-19 REPRESENTATIVE SQUAD

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