The AFL’s All-Australian team won’t be announced until 7.30pm tonight, but Todd Goldstein already has the backing of the coaches.

The AFL Coaches Association released its All-Australian team on Tuesday, with Goldstein named in the ruck.

He was a clear standout in the position, edging out the Eagles’ Nic Naitanui for top billing.

The league’s two best ruckmen will face off on Saturday night, as North takes on the Eagles at Domain Stadium.

Goldstein was named using the following criteria:
“The final team was selected based on a two-step process after the 23 Home & Away rounds. The first step classified the season’s best players into one of the positions in the team structure. Then, each player was ranked in diminishing order of the number of AFLCA Champion Player Award votes earned in the 2015 Season.

To illustrate, Goldstein, Naitanui, (Aaron) Sandilands and (Shane) Mumford were all classified as Ruckmen. Goldstein (73 votes) and Naitanui (53) were the highest vote earners amongst all the Ruckmen. Therefore, Goldstein is starting Ruckman and Naitanui is on Interchange.”

AFL COACHES ASSOCIATION ALL-AUSTRALIAN TEAM

B: Easton Wood (Bulldogs), Alex Rance (Richmond), Zach Tuohy (Carlton)
HB: Robert Murphy (Bulldogs), Cale Hooker (Essendon), Jarryd McVeigh (Sydney)
C: Dan Hannebery (Sydney), Josh Kennedy (Sydney), Andrew Gaff (West Coast)
HF: Brett Deledio (Richmond), Jake Stringer (Bulldogs), Patrick Dangerfield (Adelaide)
F: Chad Wingard (Port Adelaide), Josh Kennedy (West Coast), Jack Gunston (Hawthorn)
FOLL: Todd Goldstein (North Melbourne), Matt Priddis (West Coast), Nat Fyfe (Fremantle)
INT: David Mundy (Fremantle), Bernie Vince (Melbourne), Scott Pendlebury (Collingwood), Nic Naitanui (West Coast)