Lion features in Optus WAFL Team of the Year

EVERY week of the 2020 Optus WAFL Premiership Season saw a Team of the Round selected and now based on those nine line-ups, the WAFL Team of the Year has been put together and it was, as always, a challenge still to narrow it down to 22 with three emergencies.

It has now become an annual tradition for the WAFL to announce a Team of the Round each week during the home and away season including a Player of the Week. 

But then in turn, those Teams of the Round are compiled to put together a Team of the Year at the end of each WAFL season, and while it might have been a shortened campaign due to COVID-19, 2020 is no different.

Over the course of the nine rounds of the 2020 WAFL season, a total of 98 players from the competition were selected at least once in one of the Teams of the Round.

Subiaco narrowly missed finals and had 13 players nominated at least once for a total of 24 spots

Reigning Subiaco Sandover Medallist Lachlan Delahunty warmed into the season nicely but couldn’t quite take the ruck spot off Gault and slots himself on the bench. 

The reigning Sandover Medallist was undisputedly the No. 1 player in the game in 2019 as he stepped up to carry Subiaco in the ruck with his athleticism and versatility a big part in the Lions' dominance. He was again forced to be the main ruckman for the Lions in 2020 and didn’t always have the same calibre of experienced players around him and for the first time in 112-game WAFL career won't play finals. But he still had a strong season with 19.1 possessions and 23.5 hit outs a game.

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