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Malcolm Blight attacks the MVP Awards

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http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-08-31/the-most-overrated-award-in-the-world-blight

Apparently players voting on each other is stupid because "half of them don't watch the games".

This is my favourite bit:

"Blokes in the media ... would know who played better than most players in the whole comp and I think the media awards are actually higher, they know more about the players who play well."

Yeah ok.

BT can't tell the difference between Jetta, JKH and Garlett, but media people know better than players. Sure Blighty, sure.

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    This is the same guy who didn’t have Clarry in his AA team as he thought he did not do enough!

    Blighty should just retire.

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    I agree with Blighty somewhat 

    MVP means your ommission has a massive impact on your side.

    That puts all three below players well ahead of Mitchell

    Cripps, Gawn & Grundy

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    Blight was a good player and coach but not a mediamans a#$eh^%e. He did predict a few weeks before the finals that North would win the flag so I will leave it at that.

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    Blight's right and was backed up by Cooney.

    Many players don't watch games and get their feedback from media scribes as to who the dominant players are in a particular year.

    It seems popular for younger posters to denigrate older past players just because of their age.  I automatically consider such posters dolts of the highest order.

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    Easy to pot ol Blighty...but I reckon he's got a valid point.

    The MVP would just about be the donkey vote of the Sport. 

    Right up there with media awards also ;)

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    Absolute flogs can be right sometimes - I agree with him

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    I recall Blight on special commentary suggesting Hogan be dropped late in the year as he wasn't scoring lots of goals against top 4 teams... fair to say his opinion shouldn't carry too much weight these days. 

    Wasn't he confusing Viney with Moloney at some point last year? He was a good player and coach, but the past few years his sense on reality has definitely slipped away...

    I think the coaches votes carry the most weight personally.

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    I don’t like him, but agree with him.. it’s the who gives a stuff, let’s have a dinner and try and mop up ratings event.. Dal Santo reading off a teleprompter was the real winner for me! 

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    I would back the players over the feckin umpires to pick the best player especially who is most valuable. 

    Most umps haven’t even played the game at a decent level

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    Blighty is prone to a few clangers, but I can't find fault in this. I doubt the players have much time to watch many games, let alone all of them... every round. So their opinion might be limited, based on incomplete data.

    Doesn't mean the award is entirely worthless, but I get what he's saying.

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    Devils advocate position: The players would recieve a lot of feedback from coaches and support staff about opponents who play well, what they do, who are dangerous etc.

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    Blight might know thing or two about the game. 

    Probably achieved every individual and team award. 

    Last playing coach, too

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    The distorting of Players opinions in the MVP Awards category would be high, and depend on who you like and who you hang around with. I remember in (comps) i used to go by numbers, stop marks and elbows (just a start).  

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    3 minutes ago, radar said:

    Blight might know thing or two about the game. 

    Probably achieved every individual and team award. 

    Last playing coach, too

    Might not have won the MVP Olayers award though Radar. Maybe it’s sour grapes ?

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    So there's the players award ... flawed

    The media awards ... flawed

    The umps award ... flawed

    Plenty of other things to waste time and energy on, such as ... why aren't more DEMONS in the AA team?

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    15 minutes ago, deanox said:

    Devils advocate position: The players would recieve a lot of feedback from coaches and support staff about opponents who play well, what they do, who are dangerous etc.

    Double devils advocate...

    Most coaches don't play a tag on Mitchell so you would think he mustn't be that dangerous/valuable.

    ...but the players still think he is.

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    I wanted to use the line ‘Blighty should bite it’ but I kind of agree with him.

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    I think he has a point... a lot of players are open about not having the time to watch a lot of opposition matches.  Every year the AFLPA survey makes me raise an eyebrow or two with many of their results.

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    Blight will do or say anything to remain relevant. Sadly his rants are more delusional old man and less insightful ex player/coach these days.

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    Evidencing the fact that few players watch opposition games is Bayley Fritsch not even making the list of best first year players!  It’s difficult to admit but Blighty is right.

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