{"id":77995,"date":"2021-05-30T04:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=77995"},"modified":"2021-05-30T06:58:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T06:58:49","slug":"bombers-ace-tipped-for-gong-despite-bizarre-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=77995","title":{"rendered":"Bombers ace tipped for gong despite bizarre snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essendon&#x27;s Nik Cox will win the Rising Star Award despite a baffling nomination snub through the first 10 rounds of the season, Bombers legend Matthew Lloyd says.<\/p>\n<p>Cox, the 200cm No.8 draft pick, was again impressive as <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/live-scores\/west-coast-eagles-v-essendon-afl-home-and-away\/113761108\" title=\"Essendon beat West Coast\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Essendon beat West Coast<\/a> on Saturday night; a win that pushed <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/essendon-bombers\" title=\"the Bombers\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Bombers<\/a> into the top eight.<\/p>\n<p>He may finally get a Rising Star nod after the outing and Lloyd reckons he may well win the rookie gong.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"a212ef33-a69e-4367-85cf-53b685d6b020\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a212ef33-a69e-4367-85cf-53b685d6b020\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think it&#x27;s amazing that at Round 11 &#8230; I think he&#x27;s the best player of the season in terms of all these names, [yet] has still not been nominated,&quot; Lloyd said on <em>The Sunday Footy Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think he wins it. I think [Errol] Gulden and [Braeden] Campbell and [Chad] Warner, the first three, they&#x27;ve dropped off. [Lachie] Sholl he&#x27;s got covered.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I know Luke Jackson may be a star but he&#x27;s had a better season than him. Harrison Jones [also].<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s amazing &#8230; he has to get it and I still think he&#x27;d be my favourite to win it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyonNine\/status\/1398819488649318401?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyonNine\/status\/1398819488649318401?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>RISING STAR NOMINEES SO FAR<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>R1: Errol Gulden (Sydney)<\/p>\n<p>R2: Braeden Campbell (Sydney)<\/p>\n<p>R3: Chad Warner (Sydney)<\/p>\n<p>R4: Lachie Sholl (Adelaide)<\/p>\n<p>R5: Mitch Georgiades (Port Adelaide)<\/p>\n<p>R6: Jacob Koschitzke (Hawthorn)<\/p>\n<p>R7: Luke Jackson (Melbourne)<\/p>\n<p>R8: James Jordon (Melbourne)<\/p>\n<p>R9: Tom Green (GWS)<\/p>\n<p>R10: Cody Weightman (Western Bulldogs)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Essendon&#x27;s Nik Cox will win the Rising Star Award despite a baffling nomination snub through the first 10 rounds of the season, Bombers legend Matthew <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=77995\" title=\"Bombers ace tipped for gong despite bizarre snub\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77997,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77995\/revisions\/77997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}