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Demonland Player of the Year - Round 17

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6- Viney: tried from first to last bounce

5- Jones: tried from first to last bounce

4- Cross: tried from first to last bounce

3- Watts: tried to hit targets for about 50% of the game

2- Brayshaw: I love him.

1- Garland: battled manfully when the match up was a complete baffling f-up

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    Settle down Hood. Howe wasn't that good!

    Whoops he was OK but not twice I agree. Meant to get Jones in there.

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    6 Viney

    5. Dunn

    4 Gawn

    3 Cross

    2 Howe

    1 Jones

    Honorable mentions- Grimes tried hard, & Watts

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    6 - Viney. Rapidly becoming an elite mid.

    5 - Gawn. Rapidly becoming a real ruck.

    4 - Nev. If nothing else for that monumentally late hit and then claiming that the ball had been touched. Genius.

    3 - Vince. Was involved and was one of the few who did something productive when they had the chance to hit a forward.

    2 - Garland. Had his work cut out against Saint Nick. Was beaten but not shamed.

    1 - Brayshaw. I was amazed that he was listed as having only two tackles until I remembered that most would have been listed as effective (non) disposals or frees against due to the most influential player on the ground.

    Speaking of which...

    Most influential Player: Umpire Wallace, closely followed by Mollison.

    Couldn't give votes to Hogan Because he missed an absolute sitter and in a low-scoring game that kills us. Likewise Garlett. Dawes both missed a sitter and shanked passes to open forwards twice in the first quarter, so he's out. Tyson cost Harmes a chance at his first AFL goal by passing behind him. Cross and Dunn ruled themselves out with loose marking which cost us goals. Jones played on when he shouldn't have repeatedly, cost us multiple goals. Watts kept trying to pinpoint passes into the corridor and missing. Once I got through all the players I couldn't vote for it was getting really hard to find someone I could.

    Perfect summary - The 2 that Jordan would have hit at the free throw line with his eyes closed would have been huge

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    6. Viney

    5. Watts

    4. Grimes

    3. Jetta

    2. Gawn

    1. Jones

    Clearly we all see things differently. Five people have given Dunn votes yet I thought it was one of his worst games since he became full back.But what would I know.

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    just noticed the sausage gave best to;

    Melbourne: Viney, Grimes, Jones, Gawn, Savage

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    Having been out to the VFL Collingwood game beforehand, I think people underrate how windy it was and the MCG does swurl around massively.

    That doesn't excuse handballs behind players and lack of run, but it should be taken into account when assessing our kicking.

    Votes:

    6 Viney (as I've said before, I never feel we aren't trying or intimidated when he's in the side and he did pretty good job on Steven)

    5 Howe (on a day when skills were poor, he was clean for much of it. Past two weeks have been huge).

    I really struggled from here.

    4 Gawn (not as dominant as recent weeks, but he clearly won his ruck battle).

    3 Jones (tried all game to lift them)

    2 Cross (disciplined as ever)

    1 Grimes (linked well for much of the game)

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    The field at the top remains bunched up.

    Can Bernie knock Nathan off his perch. Will Tom McDonald get that second breath of wind he needs to carry himself back to the top?

    114. Bernie Vince

    110. Nathan Jones

    103. Tom McDonald
    91. Jesse Hogan

    74. Jack Viney
    66. Max Gawn

    63. Daniel Cross

    53. Angus Brayshaw
    52. Jeffrey Garlett
    44. Colin Garland
    42. Aaron vandenBerg
    30. Christian Salem
    28. Cam Pedersen
    21. Jack Grimes
    19. Jimmy Toumpas
    17. Jack Watts
    15. Neville Jetta

    13. Jeremy Howe
    12. Lynden Dunn

    6. Dom Tyson
    4. Mark Jamar Heritier Lubumba Viv Michie Ben Newton

    3. Chris Dawes
    2. Jake Spencer
    1. Alex Neal-Bullen

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