{"id":31590,"date":"2015-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/south-aussie-young-gun-inspired-by-bomber-champs\/"},"modified":"2015-10-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T00:00:00","slug":"south-aussie-young-gun-inspired-by-bomber-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/south-aussie-young-gun-inspired-by-bomber-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"South Aussie young gun inspired by Bomber champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Aaron Francis is tipped to be a top 10 pick in this year\u2019s draft, and when he spoke to Rowey and Bicks about his footy heroes, it became very clear which team he followed growing up.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI had a close look at Matthew Lloyd,\u201d Aaron said on FIVEAA, \u201chow he played and how he attacked the footy in the air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also loved James Hird when he played.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrendon Goddard &#8211; I like the way he plays, that outside player, ball user, good reader of the play and good kick.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN to Aaron Francis here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/228331603&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Aaron also said he\u2019d \u201ctaken a lot of notice of Luke Hodge lately and how he goes about his footy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat general halfback mid-type player that can dominate the game any way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/patrick-dangerfield-weights-into-kyrgios-twitter-war\">DANGERFIELD WEIGHS&nbsp;INTO THE KYRGIOS\/TEX TWITTER WAR &#8211; GLORIOUS!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/manager-says-talia-brothers-uniting-at-adelaide-crows-is-an-option\">IS THIS STAR CROW&#8217;S BROTHER ABOUT TO JOIN HIM IN ADELAIDE?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Francis is tipped to be a top 10 pick in this year\u2019s draft, and when he spoke to Rowey and Bicks about his footy heroes, it became very clear which team he followed growing up. \u201cI had a close look at Matthew Lloyd,\u201d Aaron said on FIVEAA, \u201chow he played and how he attacked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-31590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiveaa-sports-show","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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