QAFL 22 under 22 team reveal: Broadbeach leads all with five selections in best young guns side
After hundreds of votes across each positional group, the polls have closed and the QAFL 22 under 22 team has been selected with some shock inclusions and omissions. DO YOU AGREE WITH THE TEAM?
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After hundreds of votes across each positional group, News Corp readers have helped select the QAFL 22 under 22 team for season 2022.
A list of 40-plus nominees was whittled down to 22 (plus an emergency) of the best young talents in the QAFL, as first picked by the competition’s best eyes for ability and then honed by our readers.
See the full list of nominees here
Gold Coast clubs dominated selection with 14 off the 23 players hailing from the four teams on the Glitter Strip.
Reigning premiers Broadbeach led the way with five selections, ahead of Labrador and Palm Beach Currumbin with four each.
Morningside was next with three players named in the team, while Noosa earned two selections.
Surfers Paradise, Maroochydore, Wilston Grange and Mt Gravatt all had one player make the team, while emergency ruck Ethan Harris ensured Sherwood had representation in the squad.
Read on below to see the full team.
22 UNDER 22 TEAM
DEF: Cade Gregory (Labrador), Riley Winter (Broadbeach), Charlie Bowes (Noosa), Ben McCarthy (Morningside), Harrison Day (Palm Beach Currumbin), Jake Torney (Mt Gravatt)
MID: Luke Coombes (Labrador), Jed Foggo (Palm Beach Currumbin), Damon Eastwell (Maroochydore)
FOLL: Ryan Pickering Broadbeach), Michael Selsby (Broadbeach), Brayden Taylor (Broadbeach)
FWD: Max Nelson (Morningside), William Bella (Palm Beach Currumbin), Will O’Dwyer (Noosa), Cody Harrington (Broadbeach), Nathan Wright (Labrador), Sam Hilton-Joyce (Surfers Paradise)
INT: Ashton Crossley (Palm Beach Currumbin), Wilson Barry (Morningside), Campbell Lake (Labrador), Jackson Mills (Wilston Grange)
EMERG: Ethan Harris (Sherwood)
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