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Coaches Votes

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Just having a look at the coaches votes for the QB game, as follows:

Melbourne v Collingwood

9 Dane Swan (Coll)

9 Brent Moloney (Coll)

5 Mark Jamar (Mel)

5 Scott Pendlebury (Coll)

1 Brad Dick (Coll)

1 Dayne Beams (Coll)

Obviously one coach gave Beamer 5, the other coach gave him 4 and same for Swan. One coach has given 3 to Russian, the other coach 2 and same for Pendlebury.

Now, the one vote - both coaches have gone for Dick and Beams. I am obviously biased but IMO how Davey is not listed is beyond me. Malthouse tagged Flash who tore them apart, no vote there Mick?

I would argue even with Dick's 4 goals, 2 were over the top Joe the Goose' and Davey was better than him. In my opinion Flash was just as effective as Pendlebury but what do I know? As for Beams? Seriously......

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I agree with the 9s and 5s - especially the 9s. Geez Dane Swan is a good player. The second half really was Melbourne vs Swan in my eyes.

Totally bewildered by the ones - I reckon we had three players (Garland, Davey and Morton) who were better than both those two. Oh well.

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Garland of course!!! Thanks Nasher....seems I fell for the same trap as even coaches do by not giving a vote to defenders (even though flash is off half back is an attacker!). The overall leaderboard below reads like a Herald Sun player of the year award, bit surprising considering the majority of coaches were defenders or defensive minded and know better than us the task assigned.

Reckon it's time an award was struck for the defenders.

Leader board

62 Luke Hodge (Haw)

48 Dane Swan (Coll)

47 Matthew Pavlich (Fre)

46 Aaron Sandilands (Fre)

44 Paul Chapman (Geel)

41 David Mundy (Fre)

38 Gary Ablett (Geel)

38 Brendon Goddard (StK)

37 Lenny Hayes (StK)

37 Chris Judd (Carl)

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I thought Garland was fantastic. Starting to see some real 'freakish' sort of qualities in him. I though early on some of Flash's disposal was a little iffy, so I'm OK with him missing out.

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Just having a look at the coaches votes for the QB game, as follows:

Melbourne v Collingwood

9 Dane Swan (Coll)

9 Brent Moloney (Coll)

5 Mark Jamar (Mel)

5 Scott Pendlebury (Coll)

1 Brad Dick (Coll)

1 Dayne Beams (Coll)

I cant bring myself to even make a bad joke out of it, which muppet from the media put Beamer as a collingwood player?

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bit surprising considering the majority of coaches were defenders or defensive minded and know better than us the task assigned.

Interesting observation. I hadn't noticed that before.

Craig: N/A

Voss: Midfield

Ratten: Midfield

Malthouse: Defender

Knights: Midfield

Harvey: Defender

Clarkson: Midfield

Thompson: Defender

Bailey: Midfield

Scott: Defender

Williams: Midfield?

Hardwick: Defender

Lyon: Defender?

Roos: Defender

Worsfold: Defender

Eade: Midfield

7 midfielders, 8 defenders, no forwards or ruckman, and one coach who did not play at AFL level.

Sorry to hijack the thread.

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All good Nasher...bring it too life!!

Out of the 7 mids I reckon only 3, Voss, Ratten & Knights would have been more attack minded players. Even guys like Clarko I would class as more dour if not defensive midfielders.

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All good Nasher...bring it too life!!

Out of the 7 mids I reckon only 3, Voss, Ratten & Knights would have been more attack minded players. Even guys like Clarko I would class as more dour if not defensive midfielders.

Even those 3 were hard bodied more contested ball winners than outside players.

Guess it all changes next year when Longmire starts coaching.

As for the votes, I wonder if Bailey gave the 1 vote to Beams or Dick. I would have to presume Dick and can see why he got a vote, can't see what Beams did more than Davey or others.

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All good Nasher...bring it too life!!

Out of the 7 mids I reckon only 3, Voss, Ratten & Knights would have been more attack minded players. Even guys like Clarko I would class as more dour if not defensive midfielders.

Indeed. If you count McKenna and Sheedy the number of defenders goes to 10.

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Just having a look at the coaches votes for the QB game, as follows:

Melbourne v Collingwood

9 Dane Swan (Coll)

9 Brent Moloney (Coll)

5 Mark Jamar (Mel)

5 Scott Pendlebury (Coll)

1 Brad Dick (Coll)

1 Dayne Beams (Coll)

Obviously one coach gave Beamer 5, the other coach gave him 4 and same for Swan. One coach has given 3 to Russian, the other coach 2 and same for Pendlebury.

Now, the one vote - both coaches have gone for Dick and Beams. I am obviously biased but IMO how Davey is not listed is beyond me. Malthouse tagged Flash who tore them apart, no vote there Mick?

I would argue even with Dick's 4 goals, 2 were over the top Joe the Goose' and Davey was better than him. In my opinion Flash was just as effective as Pendlebury but what do I know? As for Beams? Seriously......

Entirely agree. Davey's impact upon the game was huge, in my view even greater than Moloney's

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Just having a look at the coaches votes for the QB game, as follows:

Melbourne v Collingwood

9 Brent Moloney (Mel)

9 Dane Swan (Coll)

5 Mark Jamar (Mel)

5 Aaron Davey (Mel)

1 Cale Morton (Mel)

1 Scott Pendlebury (Coll)

Edited to make more sense

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Interesting observation. I hadn't noticed that before.

Craig: N/A

Voss: Midfield

Ratten: Midfield

Malthouse: Defender

Knights: Midfield

Harvey: Defender

Clarkson: Midfield

Thompson: Defender

Bailey: Midfield

Scott: Defender

Williams: Midfield?

Hardwick: Defender

Lyon: Defender?

Roos: Defender

Worsfold: Defender

Eade: Midfield

7 midfielders, 8 defenders, no forwards or ruckman, and one coach who did not play at AFL level.

Sorry to hijack the thread.

Some of the defenders even started their careers as forwards or midfielders but found their "home" in defence.

Harvey, Lyon & Roos started as forwards.

Malthouse & Scott & possibly Thompson (not so sure about him) started as mids. And I thought Bailey also started as a mid but played most games in defence.

Eade (and Sheedy, for what it's worth) went the other way - started in back pocket & ended up in midfield.

But again, no forwards - even those who started out as forwards did better as defenders. IMO this makes your point even stronger, Nasher.

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Just having a look at the coaches votes for the QB game, as follows:

Melbourne v Collingwood

9 Dane Swan (Coll)

9 Brent Moloney (Coll)

5 Mark Jamar (Mel)

5 Scott Pendlebury (Coll)

1 Brad Dick (Coll)

1 Dayne Beams (Coll)

Obviously one coach gave Beamer 5, the other coach gave him 4 and same for Swan. One coach has given 3 to Russian, the other coach 2 and same for Pendlebury.

Now, the one vote - both coaches have gone for Dick and Beams. I am obviously biased but IMO how Davey is not listed is beyond me. Malthouse tagged Flash who tore them apart, no vote there Mick?

I would argue even with Dick's 4 goals, 2 were over the top Joe the Goose' and Davey was better than him. In my opinion Flash was just as effective as Pendlebury but what do I know? As for Beams? Seriously......

Where can you access the COaches votes??

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So who was the coach who never played at afl/vfl level? It was either Neil Craig or Ross Lyon i'm assuming...

It was Craig....Ross Lyon played with Fitzroy.

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