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Best and Fairest Top 5

Rodney (Balls) Grinter
Rodney (Balls) Grinter
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1. Tracc

2. May

3. Oliver

4. Viney

5. Gawn/Langdon.

The three games Max missed will hurt and Langdon had a cracking back half of the season. No question they have been our best 6 this season and by quite some way.

 

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    1. Trac

    2. May

    3. Oliver

    4. Gawn

    5. Langdon 

    Langdon has a bit of an iffy period early in the year but once he got going I think he’ll poll well. Gawn’s missed matches will drop him down a bit. May and Petracca have had outstanding years but I think Trac’s form has been so consistent and at times match winning it’ll see him get his first Bluey. 

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    1. Christian Petracca 

    2. Steven May 

    3. Max Gawn 

    4. Clayton Oliver 

    5. Ed Langdon 

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    I really hope Trac gets it.

    The best season by a Demon in a long time. We wanted a genuine superstar and we've now got one.

    I think Lever will poll better than many think and would be a smokey for top 5 if one of the obvious choices doesn't poll as well.

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    Oliver

    Petracca

    May

    Gawn

    Salem

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    10 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

    Per the thread title, the club are running an online comp:

    https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/817801/predict-your-best-and-fairest-top-five

     

    For what it's worth, the top 5 as I think it will fall out is:

    1. Trac

    2. May

    3. Langdon

    4.  Clarry

    5.  Gawn

    Langdon might not rank as high as 3.

    Wouldn't be surprised if Lever is in there but don't know who would drop out of those 5.

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    Its kinda of worrying I think we could struggle  to find a top 8.

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    Trac 

    May

    Gawn

    Oliver 

    Langdon

    I’d be happy with Trac and May being joint winners, they have both had enormous seasons.  How May is not in the AA squad is an absolute disgrace.  The bloke should be in the starting 22

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    Having avidly watched and participated in the voting for Demonland player Of the Year Award all year, the voting reflects a very strong Top 6 and then quite a gap for the 7 - 10 best performers. If we are on the money Jack & Ed will be fighting for 5th spot. But then.!!!!!!

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    Trac

    Oliver

    May

    Langdon

    Gawn

     

    Salem and Viney close.

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    11 hours ago, Cheesy D. Pun said:

    I really hope Trac gets it.

    The best season by a Demon in a long time. We wanted a genuine superstar and we've now got one.

    I think Lever will poll better than many think and would be a smokey for top 5 if one of the obvious choices doesn't poll as well.

    Short memory Cheesy.  In 2018 Gawn won the AFLCA Player of the Year.  Tracc has had a great breakout year and deserves to be AA and along with May would be a deserving Bluey winner but he hasn't been better than Gawn two seasons ago.

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    1 hour ago, Swooper1987 said:

    Short memory Cheesy.  In 2018 Gawn won the AFLCA Player of the Year.  Tracc has had a great breakout year and deserves to be AA and along with May would be a deserving Bluey winner but he hasn't been better than Gawn two seasons ago.

    I haven't forgotten Swooper, I just rate Petracca's season slightly better.

    I haven't seen a Dees player do what Petracca has done this season, in my lifetime (born in the 80s).

    His ability to extract the ball, get rid of opponents and power away from the contest is currently unmatched across the league.

    Yes, there are many players that have been more prolific but none as dangerous and creative in terms of ability to get from inside to outside.

    I'm happy to admit, my view is tainted by the uniqueness of what Petracca brings, as compared to Gawn.

    However, it's also easy to under value those that perform when things aren't going as well because we're generally searching for solutions to our failings.

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    Are any Queensland D'landers going tonight to keep us posted on events and whispers ??

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    16 hours ago, Nelo said:

    Petracca, May, Oliver, Langdon, Gawn. In that order. 

    Agreed.

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    1. Petracca

    2. May

    3. Oliver

    4. Langdon

    5. Gawn

     

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    So BnF was done last night and is being turned around for tonight.. really dont see the point in that but anyway, and apparently Oliver not happy with where he finished, below Langdon, so possibly 5th.. interesting times.. 

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    10 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

    Langdon might not rank as high as 3.

    Wouldn't be surprised if Lever is in there but don't know who would drop out of those 5.

    Yeah, I feel like I'm taking a bit of a punt there across the board against the prevailing logic in a lot of ways.

    I just suspect that coaches and those within the club might rate the value of Langdon's contributions to the side differently to your average footy jurno.  Even looking back at who myself and other have given votes to with the Demonland player of the year votes, Langdon doesn't feature that strongly, yet when I look back across the season at his enormous efforts he so consistently puts in week in week out and what that has provided for the side in terms of ball movement and structure, 3rd best and fairest doesn't seem too far out if at all.

    I thought I was going out on a bit of a limb to have Gawn so far down the list, but I was interested to observe that many others here also see it a similar way - that a) he's probably missed too many games to feature at the very top end and b) that he probably hasn't been in his peak form all the games he's played either.

    So close to call between the likes of Patracca, May, Oliver and possibly even Viney in there somewhere that I'm really quite unsure how the cookie will crumble, but will be interested to see how it all pans out.

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