Melbourne Demons premiership midfielder Angus Brayshaw has announced his engagement to the daughter of an AFL great.
Brayshaw took to Instagram to announce he and Danielle Frawley, daughter of St Kilda great Danny Frawley, who lost his life in 2019, were engaged.
The pair are long-time partners, having known each other since they were children, with the news coming with little shock.
Their relationship was put in the spotlight after the Demon’s drought-breaking AFL premiership in 2021, with Brayshaw giving her an emotional call-out from Perth.
Danielle’s mother also admitted their pair had an instant spark.
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“We have been family friends with Debra and Mark (Brayshaw, Angus’ parents) for many, many years, going back 20, 25 years, and we were at their house in Sandringham many years ago, and Angus and Danielle were there,” Danielle’s mother Anita told ABC Radio after the grand final triumph.
“Mark and I picked up straight away. I said, ‘There is a spark here, Mark,’ and we had a great laugh.
“We have a photo of them back in the day when they were seven, and we joke about it now that it was right back in those early days that we thought something would happen.
“He is a beautiful man.”
The pair went to school together and ended up reconnecting in their teens.
Danny Frawley played 240 games for the St Kilda Football Club and coached Richmond for four years between 2000 – 2004.
— This story originally appeared on perthnow.com.au and has been republished permission