Ayoung local footballer will attend the 2024 Telstra AFL Draft Combine with the hopes of impressing AFL scouts and getting selected in the 2024 AFL Draft.


East Gambier’s Angus Clarke has already had a big year in footy, playing for Glenelg in the Under 18 competition where he has averaged 16 disposals in nine games for the 


Tigers.


Over the last couple of months Clarke represented South Australia in the U18 State Championships where he and the Croweaters won one game in the championship with Clarke averaging 17 disposals in the four games.


After an incredible year Clarke has been invited to partake in the AFL Combine in Melbourne with 64 of the best young prospects in the country.


The testing at the combine includes the vertical jump, running vertical jump, 20-metre sprint, agility test and the 2km time trial.


As well as the physical tests, draftees will also have interviews with clubs before the testing begins.


Clarke spoke to The SE Voice about how he feels to be invited to the combine.


“It is such a privilege to be acknowledged by the AFL to be in the 65 participating in the combine,” he said.


“It goes to show it does not matter where you live you can still make it to where everyone else is even though you are in the country.”


Clarke said he was excited to attend the combine with so many young players who may be superstars in the competition in a few years.


“I am really looking forward to the whole experience being around players that you know that may become superstars of the AFL and being there testing against them is really amazing,” he said.


“At the moment I have been on the bike every night since I have a broken collarbone, however I am in the later stages of that and hoping to be back very shortly training to be fit and ready for the finals of the SANFL and then start to train for the 


combine.”


Already Clarke is attracting attention, with AFL.com.au’s Cal Twomey stating that Clarke has a good shot at getting picked up in the top 30 in the draft in November.


The combine will be held from October 4-6, the weekend after the AFL grand final.