another fade-out against St Kilda<\/a>, Walker is their ray of hope.<\/p>\n The 18-year old and potential No. 1 pick in the 2026 draft picked up 26 disposals in a brilliant VFL debut for the Blues on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Walker officially committed to Carlton last year as a father-son selection, despite also being eligible for Richmond through its Next Generation Academy.<\/p>\n
Silvagni emotional after Carlton matchup | 01:41<\/p>\n
Though triple-premiership Tiger Jack Riewoldt has questioned whether Walker could be second guessing that decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got two avenues now, it\u2019s a very big decision for Cody Walker,\u201d Riewoldt said on Fox Footy.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was looking today and sees Richmond go and have a 10-point win away from home (against West Coast) with maybe three fit players that weren\u2019t playing AFL.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen he sees this tonight (Carlton\u2019s loss to St Kilda).<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t be surprised if there\u2019s conversations happening behind the scenes for Richmond, who\u2019s going to finish very low on the ladder, to maybe throw their hat back in the Cody Walker ring.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou would be looking at it tonight going: \u2018Where is my next opportunity to win a premiership?\u2019 <\/p>\n
\u201cI think a lot of people would say, currently in Cody\u2019s position, it would be Richmond.\u201d<\/p>\n
The AFL this week confirmed changes to the draft that will make it harder for clubs to match bids on father-son and academy players<\/a>, with teams now needing to use a maximum of two picks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest on Brisbane\u2019s whiteboard controversy. Plus a great has suggested a Blues prodigy could make a shock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4858,23,133,4539,4850,99,1074,780,4847,4532,945,2601,4854,4851,2602,540,4857,4523,4529,4855,120,4525,4853,4848,568,4852,68,4856,4849],"class_list":{"0":"post-3654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brisbane","8":"tag-academy-players","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","11":"tag-blasts-fan","12":"tag-blues-prodigy","13":"tag-brisbane","14":"tag-chris-fagan","15":"tag-cody-walker","16":"tag-draft-backflip","17":"tag-dressing-room","18":"tag-essendon","19":"tag-facebook","20":"tag-father-son-prodigy","21":"tag-hat-back","22":"tag-inc","23":"tag-jack-riewoldt","24":"tag-jay-clark","25":"tag-lion-jaxon-prior","26":"tag-lions-coach","27":"tag-next-generation-academy","28":"tag-oceania","29":"tag-players-strengths","30":"tag-sam-graham","31":"tag-shock-draft-backflip","32":"tag-st-kilda","33":"tag-tim-roberts","34":"tag-victoria","35":"tag-whiteboard-controversy","36":"tag-whiteboard-drama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654","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=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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