Former Collingwood player Jay Rantall signs with Geelong VFL
Another former Collingwood player is joining Geelong’s VFL side — and it is not the only Geelong club he has signed with this year.
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Former Collingwood running machine Jay Rantall has become the latest ex-Pie to join Geelong’s VFL side.
The Cats have confirmed the signing of Rantall, 23, for the 2025 season.
It comes after this masthead revealed on Monday that Geelong had secured former Collingwood key forward Nathan Kreuger.
Rantall, 23, played five senior games for the Magpies in 2021 before being delisted at the end of that year after being taken with pick 40 in the 2019 draft.
Geelong VFL coach Mark Corrigan expects the midfielder to add to their engine room.
“Jay Rantall brings some AFL experience and he is an elite runner,” Corrigan said.
“He is a really nice ball user, someone who will complement our inside midfielders, he is going to complement that group really well, and again he is another mature body coming in.”
A talented dual sportsman who represented Australia at junior level, Rantall signed with Geelong United’s NBL1 side in March this year.
But Rantall went on to play four games with Werribee’s VFL side and had a further 10 appearances for his local club South Warrnambool in the Hampden league in 2024.
He spent a year in the SANFL with Norwood in 2022 in his first year out of the AFL system and played five games for Footscray VFL in 2023.
The endurance specialist boasts the fourth best 2km time trial of all-time at the AFL draft combine, running it in a blistering 5 minutes and 50 seconds.
Rantall wore the famous No. 35 in his first season at Collingwood that is now worn by Nick Daicos.
Geelong VFL announced a 46-player training squad last month.
The Cats drafted Barwon Heads ruckman Joe Pike from their VFL program in the 2024 rookie draft.
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