AFL.com | Fresh from a 13-goal bag in the country, Jarrod Brander tells Daniel Garb about life outside the AFL and his thoughts on a return one day.
There are many who envisaged Jarrod Brander would be a dominant forward at 24 years of age. They just expected it to be at the MCG, rather than George Gordon Oval in Mildura.
But the first-round draft pick from 2017 is at peace with how his football journey has panned out. And away from the pressures and pitfalls of the AFL, he is falling in love with the game again.
Kicking goals helps, of course. In Brander's case, there have been plenty of them: 33 in six games this season to be exact, including a haul of 13 for the Wentworth Kangaroos in the Sunraysia Football League.
It's a fair way from the bright lights of the big time, though, for a player who was tipped to have a huge ceiling in the game.
