Todd picked up a vote from the coaches. Maybe Hardwick gave him one for recruiting.

Richmond v Melbourne
9 Jeremy Howe (Melb)
9 Nathan Jones (Melb)
5 Dustin Martin (Rich)
5 Dom Tyson (Melb)
1 Todd Viney (Melb)
1 Jack Watts (Melb)

from here http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-05-20/aflca-votes-do-you-agree-with-coaches

Perhaps it should read '1 - Todd Viney's sperm'.

Perhaps it should read '1 - Todd Viney's sperm'.

Todd Viney's super sperm*

Perhaps it should read '1 - Todd Viney's sperm'.

Well he is "fluid" in his motion, and we are talking about a "ball" game.

Recent history would suggest just being in the vicinity of Jack Viney whilst wearing opposition colours causes serious injury.

Incorrectly naming him in a match report...

the consequences are almost unfathomable.

More interesting than a typo is that one coach thought Howe was BOG and the other thought he was second best. That wasn't reflected in the voting for the Demonland POTY votes.

If anyone can be bothered, it would be an interesting exercise to compare the coaches votes with the Brownlow votes and the Demonland votes at the end of the year. It would demonstrate the real difference in perspective between the fans, the umpires and the coaches.

BTW Nat Jones is doing pretty well overall in the votes

LEADERBOARD

55 Gary Ablett (Gold Coast)
44 Josh Kennedy (Sydney Swans)
39 Scott Pendlebury (Collingwood)
38 Joel Selwood (Geelong)
35 Nathan Fyfe (Fremantle)
35 Robbie Gray (Port Adelaide)
32 Patrick Dangerfield (Adelaide)
32 Nathan Jones (Melbourne)
31 Nick Riewoldt (St Kilda)
30 Brent Harvey (North Melbourne)

would love to know if Roos gave the 1 vote to Viney or Watts

AFL has changed it to Jack now......

lol Go Todd

On a related note, the Father - Son rule has to be the best rules in any sport in the world and a massive credit to the AFL for conceiving it

Its great to have that connection to the team from earlier generations, Todd Viney was a lot of peoples favorite player back in his day and he was a real heart and soul player for us a long time and a great skipper

and now we have the please of watching his son play for us

lol Go Todd

On a related note, the Father - Son rule has to be the best rules in any sport in the world and a massive credit to the AFL for conceiving it

Its great to have that connection to the team from earlier generations, Todd Viney was a lot of peoples favorite player back in his day and he was a real heart and soul player for us a long time and a great skipper

and now we have the please of watching his son play for us

Nice use of the word "conceiving"

lol Go Todd

On a related note, the Father - Son rule has to be the best rules in any sport in the world and a massive credit to the AFL for conceiving it

Its great to have that connection to the team from earlier generations, Todd Viney was a lot of peoples favorite player back in his day and he was a real heart and soul player for us a long time and a great skipper

and now we have the please of watching his son play for us

Actually... If what I have read is true Melbourne actually lobbied the then VFL to create the Father/Son rule.

Carlton were the first to actually benefit from it.

Later, one Ronald Dale Barrassi Jr was recruited via this rule.

Anyone able to confirm?

Edited May 20, 201411 yr by Robot Devil

More interesting than a typo is that one coach thought Howe was BOG and the other thought he was second best. That wasn't reflected in the voting for the Demonland POTY votes.

If anyone can be bothered, it would be an interesting exercise to compare the coaches votes with the Brownlow votes and the Demonland votes at the end of the year. It would demonstrate the real difference in perspective between the fans, the umpires and the coaches.

And the B&F.

Of course, the different voting systems blur the outcome. Doesn't the MFC B&F give players a mark from the Senior Coach and some or all assistant coaches (or Match Committee?) from 1 to 7 for each game played? So a player who had the worst day imaginable, but was out there, will get votes under that model.

Perhaps it should read '1 - Todd Viney's sperm'.

You have to feel sorry for the other sperm that competed with Jack on the road to their mum's egg. They never had a chance.