NUMEROUS Eurobodalla Shire and Shoalhaven talents have been recognised as potential stars of the future, by recently being named in the Greater Western Sydney Academy development squads for 2020.
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Three Narooma players, Will Tiffen, Lachlan Druhan and Hudson Bromwich had their first training session with the 13s squad on Monday.
Will and Hudson will train at Merimbula for the next 10 weeks, whilst Lachlan heads north to Batemans Bay.
It was a late night drive back from Merimbula for Will's mother Mel Tiffen. They arrived home to Narooma by 10pm.
She said Will and Hudson loved their first development squad session learning new drills.
"The first thing Will did when he got in the car on the way down was ring his pop, who used to train development squads - they analysed the training session together," she said.
The 13s squad contains 10 Sapphire Coast AFL juniors.
Three Narooma players (Will Tiffen, Lachlan Druhan and Hudson Bromwich) along with Pambula's Deakin Ross, Will Clapton and Oliver Dinuroodi, Tathra's Toby Parker and Liam Chandler, Bermagui's Lachlan Moresi and Merimbula's Hugh Balas.
The squad will be filled out by 14 AFL South Coast juniors. Bay and Basin (Oliver Driscoll, Taj Malmborg, Jack Hewson, Jethro Snelling and Jake Griggs) and Bomaderry (Daniel Harris, Dustin Cook, Harrison Ingwersen, Thomas Duncan and Tyson Walker) both contribute five players each, while Batemans Bay (Jacob Pike, Finn Wheatley, Jed Ware and Oliver Dyason) has four.
Headlining the under 15s squad are Bomaderry quintet Charlie Dunn, Evan Larkins, Hayden Batson, Lachlan Almond and Brynn Carlile.
Other AFL South Coast products named in the squad are Ulladulla's Xander Jackson and Brayden Atkins, Bay and Basin's Keanu King and Batemans Bay's Kalin Don.
While the under 14s squad features 19 players - 11 of which play in the AFL South Coast competition.
Batemans Bay has the largest contingent (four), including the likes of Tasman Simons, Tom Lassau, Austen Edwards and Tully Ware.
Joining that Seahawks quartet are Dockers' Harry Neil, Conner West and Ben Clough, Bombers' Cameron Softley and Cade Missingham and Tigers' Oscar Tunney-Robert and Dylan Johnstone.
Others in the under 14s squad are Bermagui's Zane Curven, Will Callaghan, Kane Forbes, Harry Huddlestone and Tyge Matters, Merimbula's Walter Blewitt and Tom Miller and Tathra's Jack McMahon.