BRINGING in an AFL forward still in their prime is a godsend for a country club.

Having that be one of your own is just the icing on top.

After being delisted from the GWS Giants at the end of 2022, a 23-year-old Jarrod Brander was snapped up to return to his boyhood club.

He played 27 games over five years in the AFL system, having been being drafted in 2018 at pick 13 by West Coast. Despite o...