{"id":11205,"date":"2026-05-14T08:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/11205\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:27:23","slug":"afl-sydney-mens-rising-star-round-6-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/11205\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Sydney Men&#8217;s Rising Star &#8211; Round 6, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Player Name:\u00a0Brady Mackay<\/p>\n<p>Nickname:\u00a0Brady<\/p>\n<p>Playing Position:\u00a0Midfield\/HFF<\/p>\n<p>Senior Club:\u00a0East Coast Eagles<\/p>\n<p>Junior Club:\u00a0Wyong Lakes Magpies Junior AFC<\/p>\n<p>What is one thing that we don\u2019t know about this Rising Star that they are well known for around the club?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Down from the Central Coast, when he speaks amongst the group he carries a presence not many guys his age have.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What role do they play for the club both on and off the field?<\/p>\n<p>On the field he is fiercely competitive, has electric speed and tackles well above his weight. Off the field, Brady is pretty quiet, goes about his business but loves being around both the 19s and the senior group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What are the reasons for nomination this round?<\/p>\n<p>Excellent all-round game, playing midfield and forward and being part of many important plays. Huge tackles after physical contests, winning the hard ball then distributing with precision, Brady had a breakout game vs St George<\/p>\n<p>Coach quote on Performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the break-out game for Brady &#8211; he wanted the midfield minutes mid-week, proved it on the track, then came out and delivered on game day when it mattered. Huge upside for such a young talented player.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; Ben Rogers (East Coast Eagles Men\u2019s Premier Division Coach)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Player Name:\u00a0Brady Mackay Nickname:\u00a0Brady Playing Position:\u00a0Midfield\/HFF Senior Club:\u00a0East Coast Eagles Junior Club:\u00a0Wyong Lakes Magpies Junior AFC What is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[247],"class_list":{"0":"post-11205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sydney","8":"tag-sydney"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}