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Christian Petracca - Rising Star

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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 by ManDee

 
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!.

 
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!

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 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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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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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.

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