After qualifying for the 2023 Strathmore Community Bank Division Two Grand Final, Oak Park and Sunbury Kangaroos have dominated selection in this season's Team of the Year comprising almost half of the 22.
Jedd Taylor (40 goals) and Blair Cronin (26 goals) provided plenty of headaches for defenders in Oak Park's forward half and feature on the half forward line with Coburg Districts' Liam Bianco.
Sunbury Kangaroos' Rhys Magin and Brody Watts line up in the forward pockets and are joined by league leading goal kicker Khoder Taleb from Northern Saints who slots in at full forward after booting 62 goals for the season.
Taylors Lakes were the best defensive team in the competition and will have Luke McCormack starting at full back and will start alongside Hadfield's Ryan Potter and Oak Park's Max Gleeson in the back pockets.
Mitchell Kook and Mitchell Streiff from Sunbury Kangaroos slot into the half back flanks with Coburg Districts' Ricky McGill starting at centre half back.
Burnside Heights' Jordan Hughes will start in the centre for the second consecutive season with Christopher Vulic (Taylors Lakes) and Joshua Trembearth (Hadfield) comprising the engine room.
Hirsi Twomey will start in the ruck in his second season with Oak Park, while teammate Daniel Rajab will fill out the wings with Aaron Vendramini (Taylors Lakes).
Starting on the bench is Mohamed Taleb (Northern Saints), Mitchell Leathers (Oak Park), Mohamed Abdullatif (Northern Saints), and Jack Burns (Taylors Lakes).
The coach and captain of the Team of the Year will be announced at the EDFL Presentation Evening on September 28.
SELECTION PROCESS & CRITERIA
All EDFL Teams of the Year are compiled based solely on the input of each club’s senior coach.
The 2023 Strathmore Community Bank Division Two Team of the Year was to recognise the best players of the 2023 home-and-away season.
Other factors such as reputation or form in previous seasons were not to be taken into account.
The Coach and Captain of the Year are determined based on the feedback provided by the senior coaches.
