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Petracca asked where (position) he'll be playing later in his career. Andy says: Say Carlton mate! Christian: Nah sorry, Melbourne for life

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1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

 

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Petracca asked where (position) he'll be playing later in his career. Andy says: Say Carlton mate! Christian: Nah sorry, Melbourne for life

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I just wish last year's R/S winner would say the same thing!

The rising star votes

THE VOTES
Mills          49 
Daniel       41
Weitering  26
Parish       19
Moore        9

Really, no MFC players?

 

from the AFL site today.

2016'S RISING STAR NOMINEES RANKED BY THEIR AVERAGE AFL PLAYER RATINGS*

Player	Club	Position	Matches	Ratings total	Ratings avg
Christian Petracca	MELB	Forward	17	196.0	11.5
Peter Wright	GC	Key forward	17	188.1	11.1
Orazio Fantasia	ESS	Forward	19	193.4	10.2
Clayton Oliver	MELB	Midfielder	13	130.1	10.0
Caleb Daniel	WB	Midfielder / forward	20	198.1	9.9
Jade Gresham	STK	Forward	18	168.9	9.4
Callum Mills	SYD	Defender	20	186.8	9.3
Darcy Parish	ESS	Midfielder	20	184.1	9.2
Connor Blakely	FRE	Midfielder	15	135.9	9.1
Jacob Weitering	CARL	Key defender	20	179.0	9.0
James Harmes	MELB	Defender	19	169.9	8.9
Blake Acres	STK	Midfielder / forward	16	142.5	8.9
Oscar McDonald	MELB	Key defender	15	131.8	8.8
James Sicily	HAW	Forward	21	181.9	8.7
Lachie Weller	FRE	Forward	22	183.1	8.3
Tom Papley	SYD	Forward	16	129.7	8.1
Daniel Rioli	RICH	Forward	18	136.1	7.6
Darcy Byrne-Jones	PORT	Defender	20	148.8	7.4
Darcy Moore	COLL	Key forward	17	118.0	6.9
Josh Dunkley	WB	Midfielder / forward	13	73.3	5.6

*Min 10 games

Edited September 6, 20169 yr by ManDee

mills at 49 votes equals the record high set last year by one j hogan

2 minutes ago, ManDee said:

The rising star votes

THE VOTES
Mills          49 
Daniel       41
Weitering  26
Parish       19
Moore        9

Really, no MFC players?

Not quite - Petracca got two votes and Oliver one. A more satisfying way to look at it is that Melbourne is the only club with two players getting votes.

Quite happy to keep the media expectations low on our young guns. We'll never know how much influence winning it last year had on Jesse, but I'd much prefer our guys being underrated by other clubs. We just need to continue going about our business and improving. The less pressure, the better at the moment.

1 minute ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Not quite - Petracca got two votes and Oliver one. A more satisfying way to look at it is that Melbourne is the only club with two players getting votes.

They only showed the top 5 in the Age.

Petracca 2, Mills 49 and Oliver 1 vote, seriously. I'll take my two players for 3 votes Vs Mills any day and he only received 46 more votes than them or is that 15 times as many votes!.

The full table is on the AFL website here

2 hours ago, ManDee said:

They only showed the top 5 in the Age.

Petracca 2, Mills 49 and Oliver 1 vote, seriously. I'll take my two players for 3 votes Vs Mills any day and he only received 46 more votes than them or is that 15 times as many votes!.

As I said last year, it's a nothing award. I can understand supporters caring when there's little to cheer about, but the skies look blue and our list is genuinely exciting. It doesn't matter if they didn't poll well in the Rising Star. I don't think any of them deserved to anyway.

21 minutes ago, A F said:

As I said last year, it's a nothing award. I can understand supporters caring when there's little to cheer about, but the skies look blue and our list is genuinely exciting. It doesn't matter if they didn't poll well in the Rising Star. I don't think any of them deserved to anyway.

If we want to look at it a different way, we had 4 nominations and one other (Hunt) who deserved one.  That's 5 young players who were recognised for their talents and abilities this year.  I'll take that every day of the week.

Doesn't really register a blip on my radar, I was happy for Jesse last year but ultimately it means very little in the grand scheme of things.

As Wiseblood said, we had 4 nominations and Hunt was super unlucky not to get one himself. This award is all about the future and it looks pretty bright for us!

I think Oliver and Petracca will make a bigger impact than Mills. They are impact players and will be keys to MFC success

Hunt winning our best young player award tonight shows how ridiculous the award is.

They should revamp it. All players under 21 with less then 10 games experience at the start of the year can remain eligable. Have 9 judges who take 1 game a week each and give votes similar to the brownlow of 3, 2, 1 for players who meet the criteria in that match. You can then maybe still have a weekly standout player who picks up a bonus vote for the final count that's announced each Tuesday similar to now.

Just a thought anyway.

Edit: Just realized this should probably be in the standard rising star thread.

Edited September 6, 20169 yr by AngryAtCasey
Relevant thread

7 hours ago, Pates said:

Doesn't really register a blip on my radar, I was happy for Jesse last year but ultimately it means very little in the grand scheme of things.

As Wiseblood said, we had 4 nominations and Hunt was super unlucky not to get one himself. This award is all about the future and it looks pretty bright for us!

As AF said earlier in this thread - who knows what the award did to Jesse's mind? He was either carrying a chronic injury all year, or a swollen head. 

I am just really happy that we have blooded a handful of youngsters who could all turn out to be very good long term players.  

10 hours ago, A F said:

As I said last year, it's a nothing award. I can understand supporters caring when there's little to cheer about, but the skies look blue and our list is genuinely exciting. It doesn't matter if they didn't poll well in the Rising Star. I don't think any of them deserved to anyway.

Disagree with your last statement, but otherwise on the money.

Personally, the award I hope the poll much better in is the Norm Smith in a MFC premiership team - everything else is pretty much rubbish.

15 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

 

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Love it.

I remember that slimy little turrd $ulley saying a similar thing, but my impression is Trac has got so much more character and integrity than him.

Comes across as a great young man. What he was able to produce for us in 2016 was incredible considering his age, inexperience and recovery from a serious injury.