PRESS RELEASE LIFE PRIMOLIFESTYLE • IDEAS • PROPERTY Perth’s newest footy pundit, Myles (10) launches glittering journalistic career in PRIMOLIfe magazine PRIMOsport WIN! MYLES: What would be the highlight for you of the 2014 season? DOM: Undoubtedly it would be playing my first game, but I Just visit primolife.com.au A moment with Myles . really just want the team to do well. and tell us in 25 words or 2014 WEST COAST EAGLES BACK ROW (L-R): Adam Selwood (Development Coach - Midfi eld), Sharrod Wellingham, Blayne Wilson, Simon Tunbridge, Jeremy McGovern, Thomas Barrass, Fraser McInnes, Brant Colledge, Ash Smith, Sam Butler, Adrian Hickmott (Backs Coach), Brady Rawlings (Midfi eld Coach) THIRD ROW (L-R): Jaymie Graham (Development Coach - Forwards), Josh Hill, Brad Sheppard, Jack Darling, Will Schofi eld, Eric Mackenzie, Scott Lycett , Nic Naitanui, Callum Sinclair, Mitch Brown, DYLAN: We’re the new breed starting the season - there’s a Dylan Main, Jacob Brennan, Xavier Ellis, Luke Shuey, Justi n Longmuir (Forwards Coach) SECOND ROW (L-R): Gavin Bell (Head of Development), Jamie Cripps, Shannon Hurn, Matt Priddis, Scott Selwood, Beau Waters, Adam Simpson (Senior Coach), Darren Glass, Dean Cox, less who your favourite Matt Rosa, Josh Kennedy, Mark LeCras, Don Pyke (Stoppage & Structures Coach) FRONT ROW (L-R): Rowen Powell, Murray Newman, Jamie Bennell, Malcolm Karpany, Dominic Sheed, Andrew Gaff , Adam Carter, Elliot Yeo, Mark Hutchings, Pat McGinnity, Chris Masten, Will Maginness westcoasteagles.com.au new game plan. It’s nerve-wracking starting in a new team but /wceoffi cial @westcoasteagles @WestCoastEagles Eagles player is and why. PRIMOLife’s resident footy nut, Myles, 10, meets exciting too. Get your entries in by Here's your chance to March 30 2014. West Coast Eagles’ rookies, Dom Sheed and MYLES: What do you do to relax? WIN a SIGNED 2014 West Dylan Main as they look forward to their first DOM: I like playing golf and swim whenever I can. Coast Eagles team poster! Good luck! DYLAN: I play golf too or hit the beach and bodyboard. PL season with the club Images CRIB CREATIVE FAST FACTS PRIMOsport getting used to but for these guys it’s a dream come true so do your best to make NAME Dylan Main the most of your opportunity. AFL is such a POSITION: Midfield competitive environment that you have to HEIGHT: 189cm be hungry to survive. Myles: Who was your childhood hero? WEIGHT 77kg A moment with Myles . Myles, 10. Tyson: I loved the Hawks as a kid, and DYLAN MAIN D.O.B 2/9/95 Garry Ayres was my hero. 18, pick 49 IntroducingRecruited PRIMOLife’s from South Fremantle, newest WA writer, Myles: What are you doing now? recruited from Tyson: When I retired in 2009, I focused South Fremantle He’s our resident AFL expert and in this issue, Myles on a lot of other areas of my life. I had a finds outMA whatIN IS A twoversatile WAmidfielder footy whoheroes has the abilityfrom to playthe at eitherpast end of strong passion for surfing, travelling and the ground if needed. Exceptional by foot, he has shown he is capable of business. I put a lot of time into travelling feel aboutkicking their goals career, when running what hard forwardthey’re into up space. to these days and surfing by buying a year long round- the-world ticket a few weeks after retiring. and who“Dylan they is ratefrom S inouth the Fremantle. 2014 He season plays wing to or half-back.come He That was a fun year. I moved to Melbourne played colts for a lot of the year and then moved in to the (WAFL) at the end of 2010 and started a business reserves for some of it. He’s a good runner, he’s got good skills and with my sister, Jennifer, and brother-in-law he can play a few different roles. He couldMyles: quite Who well was movethe most in influentialto the person in Dave called Spacebetween Creative. We HE’S THE BOY with a brain like a footy encyclopaedia, with more have been busy building that for the last Myles:midfield In your at firstsome season stage.” playing for the your career? The coaches I worked with over Adelaide~ Rohan Crows O’Brien, in recruiter1999, you for playedthe West four Coast games, Eagles. Tyson: three years and are passionately working on TYSON STENGLEIN debuting against the West Coast Eagles in round my career have all had a special influence photography, design, digital, environment and everything in between. Check us out - DOM SHEED Adelaide Crows (1999 to 2004), 106 six. What changed in the next season when you on me, from Garry Eyers who gave me my spacebetween.com.au 18, pick 11 games, 26 goals; West Coast Eagles played every single game? first opportunity at Adelaide, to Neil Craig recruited from (2005 to 2009), 102 games, 25 goals Tyson: During my first pre-season, I and of course John Worsfold at the Eagles. facts at his fingertips than Wikipedia, and at the age of 10, he’s Subiaco As a youngster I was mentored by the then- realised that I had a bit of work in front of me to achieve the fitness levels required captain of the Crows Mark Bickley and HEATH BLACK to play AFL. The Crows were Premiers in later Mark Ricciuto who were both great Fremantle (1997 to 2001), 69 games, 31 NAME Dominic Sheed 1997/1998 so it was a great chance to be captains and leaders. goals; St Kilda (2002 to 2004), 54 games, MYLES: Which current players in the leadership group at the Eagles do MYLES: How are you preparing for the beginning of the season? Myles:PO WhoSITIO wasN Midfieldthe hardest player to play 19 goals; Fremantle (2005 to 2008), 69 involved in an elite training environment you admire as well as other teams’ players, and would you like to join the DOM: We’re taking it week by week at the moment, working and learn from the best in the business. against in your opinion? games, 30 goals HE IGHEveryT 183cmweek you’d be up against PRIMOLife magazine’s newest – and youngest - writer recruit. leadership group one day? towards the NAB Cup. It’s hard - pre-season training is so much During my first season, I tried to improve Tyson: don’t associate with players with a negative WEIGHT 82kg DOM: Kerr, Judd and Cousins were always the players I admired more than anything we’ve done before. my training and professionalism to the tough opponents but I will always or rebellious reputation. Above all, have Myles: You made your debut in 1997 – what Myles: Who was the hardest player to play as a child. Whether I join the group in the years to come, well, DYLAN: Yes, it’s a massive step up - but I’m still really enjoying levels required and, thanks to that, I played rememberD.O.B playing 10/4/95 on Michael Voss during fun - that’s why we all play footy of course, Brisbane’s hay day or matching up on James was it like playing for the Dockers in those days? against in your opinion during your career? I’m only young, I’m 18, so that’s a tough question. It’s definitely it all. 15 games in my second season. I lost some Recruited from Subiaco, WA but remember that it’s big business now Heath: It was exciting for me to come Heath: Ben Counsins was the hardest something I would like to do in the longterm. DOM: We’ve just started training in a rehab group with the main puppy fat (six kilos) and became more of a Hird at the MCG. Ben Cousins was always and there’s a lot riding on each player’s over to WA from Melbourne, I was only 17, opponent for me. His ability to run at a DYLAN: I admire Brendan Goddard (Essendon) for his versatility. group. So on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it’s balls out, then running player, which allowed me to add a really tough match-up before we ended participation in a game. So stick to the rules, so I was extremely young to be leaving my very high intensity for the whole duration His overhead marking has been compared to mine, and that’s a weights four days a week. some versatility to my game and thanks to up onSH theEED same IS A teamstrong, at thephysical Eagles. midfielder who is a great decision maker. He’s but have fun around them. What was it like to play with the of the game was something which I tried to massive compliment. DYLAN: We’re running lots of laps on the oval too. It’s pretty Myles:got a thumping long kick and is capable of finishing off in front of goal.family Born and in friends behind. Freo had only the Crows having a slow start to the season, - and probably didn’t manage - to match. Myles: Who was your childhood hero? overwhelming to train with your heroes. I got an opportunity in the senior side EaglesKalgoorlie, during that Sheed period? moved to Perth to pursue his football, progressing justthrough come into the AFL at that time, and I Myles: What was it like making the switch Heath: My hero was Tim Watson Myles, who lives in Sorrento, has loved and passionately followed Tyson:the ranks When at ISubiaco, joined the eventually Eagles, the playing at league level in the WAFL. played my first game for them in Round 4, MYLES: How did you start your footy career? and managed to stay in the team for the (Essendon), the father of Jobe.