The best of the best have been named in the Western Football League’s two senior interleague squads.
The league will face the Southern Football League in senior men’s and women’s football along with under-19 men’s football and netball.
The initial 39-member squad for the men’s side includes 2024 Barry Priest Medalist Alex Paech, two-time most valuable player winner Michael Selsby and last season’s division 1 leading goal kicker Tom Condon.
More than half the squad is currently or was previously VFL-listed with three players also AFL-listed at one point, the most recent of those being Altona recruit Emerson Jeka who has returned to his junior club after five years with Hawthorn and Geelong.
There are four players in the squad who represented the WFL in its last Interleague outing with Nick Buykx, Braden Ferrari, Nayef Hamad and Daniel Nielson all lining up against the Goulburn Valley Football Netball League six years ago.
Lachlan Green, Zac Pritchard and Colby Redpath who played in the under-18s match last time round have now been picked as members of the senior squad.
Players from all 12 clubs in division 1 are represented.
It will be the first time the league has had a senior women’s interleague side.
Thirty-eight players have been picked in the initial squad.
Last season’s league best-and-fairest joint winners Akima Manoah and Jessica Spall as well as 2024 leading goal kicker Larissa Renaut are among the squad.
Caroline Springs, which finished runners-up last season, has the more represented with nine players.
Players from eight of the nine clubs have been named, with North Sunshine the only club with no representatives.
