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Not sure if the voting criteria is still the same, but David Neitz only ever won one Bluey, so not sure how they'll view Hogan vote wise.

For mine its a 3 horse race between Tommy Mac, Dunn and Bernie.

With Jones and Cross not far behind.

Viney missed 6 games so will be hard for him to get up there as it rewards consistency.

After that its a crapshoot as nobody has really been consistent for long stretches.

True, but a bigger anomaly was Robbie Flower only ever winning one.

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Not sure about anyone else, but I was reading the MFC website last night, and one of the rolling articles was promoting the B&F. It actually made me the most annoyed I've felt this year about my club. Here we are, just under a month away from the AFL finals, and we're frothing up over our B&F count.

And to make it worse, the count is booked in for Friday 11 September - week 1 of the finals. Now, I realise that you don't have to be Nostradamus to predict that the likelihood of us making finals this year wasn't great, but realistically, a lot of us around here were looking at the fixture after the Geelong win, believing we had a number of winnable games in the run home, and that we were a (mathematical) chance of a finals start. One would imagine that you would need to give Crown Palladium a bit of notice when booking an event on a Friday night...

I'd much prefer the club to send players to as many finals games as possible, soak in the crowd, the pressure of finals footy, and show them that this is where we want to be. Instead, we "celebrate" the end of our season with a big pi$$ up at Crown, on the same night that almost half the other clubs are preparing to play finals.

Apologies, I'm in a sh!t mood today, and it's much easier to vent my frustration on Demonland. As much as I love Jack Watts, I have banned myself from going on this his thread today due to the high risk of getting a lifetime ban!

Posted

Not sure about anyone else, but I was reading the MFC website last night, and one of the rolling articles was promoting the B&F. It actually made me the most annoyed I've felt this year about my club. Here we are, just under a month away from the AFL finals, and we're frothing up over our B&F count.

And to make it worse, the count is booked in for Friday 11 September - week 1 of the finals. Now, I realise that you don't have to be Nostradamus to predict that the likelihood of us making finals this year wasn't great, but realistically, a lot of us around here were looking at the fixture after the Geelong win, believing we had a number of winnable games in the run home, and that we were a (mathematical) chance of a finals start. One would imagine that you would need to give Crown Palladium a bit of notice when booking an event on a Friday night...

I'd much prefer the club to send players to as many finals games as possible, soak in the crowd, the pressure of finals footy, and show them that this is where we want to be. Instead, we "celebrate" the end of our season with a big [censored] up at Crown, on the same night that almost half the other clubs are preparing to play finals.

Apologies, I'm in a [censored] mood today, and it's much easier to vent my frustration on Demonland. As much as I love Jack Watts, I have banned myself from going on this his thread today due to the high risk of getting a lifetime ban!

FFS The Crown Paladium has them all reserved for the AFL clubs, you can move your dates dependent upon your season and they would start locking some teams in when it is clear they will not make finals

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Posted

No one

Lets try this

Lets raise the bar...

Some players have still had good seasons and deserve to be rewarded for it. Not having a B&F would be a great way to harm team morale.

You can raise the bar without being draconian about it.

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Tom Mac will be lucky to finish top 5... hes been pretty poor since Queens Birthday. But I guess he will sneak in just as hes played a lot more games than others..

1. Bernie Vince

2 .Nathan Jones

3. Jesse Hogan

4. Jack Viney

5. Tom McDonald

Posted

Tom Mac will be lucky to finish top 5... hes been pretty poor since Queens Birthday. But I guess he will sneak in just as hes played a lot more games than others..

1. Bernie Vince

2 .Nathan Jones

3. Jesse Hogan

4. Jack Viney

5. Tom McDonald

If it's the same as it has been in the past, the format of the voting favours players who play all or most games. I reckon Viney has missed too many to be a serious candidate.

1. Vince (missed 1 game)

2. Hogan (missed 2 games)

3. Jones (played all games)

4. McDonald (played all games)

5. Cross (played all games) or Dunn (played all games)

Posted (edited)

No one

Lets try this

Lets raise the bar...

What if we can't reach it? Do we go thirsty?

Boom tish!

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Edited by ManDee

Posted

Tom Mac will be lucky to finish top 5... hes been pretty poor since Queens Birthday. But I guess he will sneak in just as hes played a lot more games than others..

1. Bernie Vince

2 .Nathan Jones

3. Jesse Hogan

4. Jack Viney

5. Tom McDonald

I agree with this.

Viney would probably be top two if he didn't miss through injury.

Posted

I reckon McDonald got off to an absolute flyer and held a big lead at the half way mark. He's the man to catch and he's been ok recently after a bit of a lull. He's my pick with 3 games left.

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Posted

Anyone else agree now?

The night must be scrapped after yesterday's performance.

They still don't get it.

I can't believe you're serious about this.

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I can't believe you're serious about this.

I'm bloody serious.

How much does this night cost?

What's to celebrate?

Quick let's organise another team bonding session at Sorrento.

What happened to the players taking owning ownership?

We are a mess.

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Posted

Season is officially done and dusted - what a rollercoaster it was!

For the first time since 2011, I don't think Nathan Jones will win the Bluey, in fact I think it's very open.

My top 5 prediction:

1. Vince (faded a bit after the Collingwood game but offensively and defensively did his job most weeks).

2. Hogan (ultra-consistent, a match winner at times too)

3. N. Jones (didn't have the greatest of years, but will still feature heavily)

4. T. McDonald (started brilliantly before falling away, but always kept at it)

5. Viney (probably our best player since the Bye, but missed a lot of games earlier in the year).

Posted (edited)

Jack Viney would have won if he didnt miss all those games, he has been amazing.

My top 5

Winner - Bernie Vince

2nd - Nathan Jones

3rd - Jack Viney

4th - Tom McDonald

5th - Jesse Hogan

Edited by hogans_heroes

Posted (edited)

1) Vince

2) McDonald

3) Jones

4) Viney

5) Hogan

A bit different from the days when Terlich and M. Jones were in the top five!

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Posted

Sometimes we forget T-Mac was pretty much BOG every week for the first 10 or so weeks

1 Vince

2 T Mac

3 N Jones

4 J Viney

5 J Hogan

I feel that Viney deserves it as much as anyone, but probably missed too many games.


Posted

1. Bernie Vince

2. Tom Mcdonald

3. Nathan Jones

4. Jack Viney

5. Jesse Hogan

Posted

Here is Matt Burgans prediction, I cant remember how many games Jetta missed but 18th seems a bit low for him

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2015-09-09/vince-to-win-first-bf-for-melbourne

My guess would be pretty spot on with burgan's top 5.

From memory each player who plays is given a rating out of 10 by 3 coaches so the maximum you can get per round would be 30 whereas a sub would be expected to get atleast 3?

I think vince will take it out. tmac to poll exceptionally well for the first half, however; his chance to win depends on how highly the coaches rate his second half in terms of standing the opposition etc.

I think viney would have given it a real shake but missing ~6 games could mean it's too hard to catch up.

Is anyone else going?

Posted

It seems a silly system to me. Just by playing an extra couple of games, you are immediately a much better chance of winning. They should ditch your lowest scoring 3 to 5 games or something to give others that missed a couple a chance.

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