Great and joyful news| the Norwood football club has agree bringing a key player for the National AFL Draft

Newton transitioned from a permanent midfielder to a half forward for the National Carnival and finished with six goals for the tournament and was one of South Australia’s best.

He received the Ron Coleman Award for South Australia’s Best Team Man during the Championships.

“I enjoyed just being a part of the team, and getting on the end of a few goals, I was pretty fortunate,” he said.

“I felt pretty comfortable out there and held my own. So, I was pretty grateful for that.

“The midfield and half forward role is kind of similar. So transitioning into that role, it was kind of like a second nature for me, just being around the contest all the time and trying to bring that forward half pressure and getting on the end of a few goals was kind of the key intentions of the half forward role.

“It wasn’t really too much of a change up, and I thought I adapted to that pretty well, so I’m pretty happy about it.”

Newton will head to Melbourne for the National Draft Combine in October, but won’t be able to compete in the tests due to a foot injury.

“It’s great to see all the work paying off (being invited to the Combine),” he said.

“I was pretty happy when State Coach Tony Bamford called me up and told me that I was invited because being injured at the moment, I wasn’t really sure what was going to happen.

“I am really fortunate to get the invite and am looking forward to going to Melbourne and catching up with the boys and seeing what it’s all about.

“With my injury, I probably won’t do any of the testing at this stage, but will be involved in the interviews, but, it’s going to be real good fun and pretty exciting.

“My foot’s going pretty well, no need to have surgery which is a positive. I start running in a month’s time and will be trying to recover fully before getting back into pre season training.”