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Nealy A clean sweep!
10 Christian Petracca (MELB)
7 Clayton Oliver (MELB)
7 Steven May (MELB)
2 Jordan Dawson (ADEL)
2 Jake Lever (MELB)
1 Ed Langdon (MELB)
1 Angus Brayshaw (MELB)
 
A fairly similar coach vote for top 3 honours.   Interesting that 3 of our defenders got votes.  They deserve it - a record number of intercept marks.
 
Split
5/5 Petracca
4/3 Oliver and May
2/0 Dawson and Lever
1/0 Langdon and Brayshaw
 
Leader Board
 
Oliver now has a big lead.  Will be interested to see how many Brownlow votes he has after round 16.
Petracca equal third
 
83 Clayton Oliver MELB
68 Lachie Neale BL
65 Touk Miller GCFC
65 Christian Petracca MELB
64 Andrew Brayshaw FRE
63 Jeremy Cameron GEEL
60 Patrick Cripps CARL
52 Connor Rozee PORT
48 Callum Mills SYD
45 Sam Walsh CARL
44 James Sicily HAW
43 Hugh McCluggage BL
43 Bailey Smith WB
42 Jack Crisp COLL
42 Jack Sinclair STK
41 Sam Docherty CARL
41 Darcy Parish ESS
40 Max Gawn MELB
37 Charlie Curnow CARL
37 Taylor Walker ADEL
 

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Incredible season by Oliver thus far, and extraordinary to have Trac within a few votes of 2nd place. 2 players in top 4 this deep into the season is great to see.

Pfffft what would AFL coaches know about who played well?  According to opposition fans on Facebook he only gets 30 backwards handpasses a game and doesn't hurt the opposition.  They'd know more than the coaches wouldn't they?

 

VOTES

PLAYER (CLUB)

10 Christian Petracca (MELB)

7 Clayton Oliver (MELB)

7 Steven May (MELB)

2 Jordan Dawson (ADEL)

2 Jake Lever (MELB) 

1 Ed Langdon (MELB)

1 Angus Brayshaw (MELB)

LEADERBOARD

VOTES PLAYER CLUB
83 Clayton Oliver MELB
68 Lachie Neale BL
65 Touk Miller GCFC
65 Christian Petracca MELB
64 Andrew Brayshaw FRE
63 Jeremy Cameron GEEL
60 Patrick Cripps CARL
52 Connor Rozee PORT
48 Callum Mills SYD
45 Sam Walsh CARL
44 James Sicily HAW
43 Hugh McCluggage BL
43 Bailey Smith WB
42 Jack Crisp COLL
42 Jack Sinclair STK
41 Sam Docherty CARL
41 Darcy Parish ESS
40 Max Gawn MELB
37 Charlie Curnow CARL
37 Taylor Walker ADEL
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52 minutes ago, BigFez said:

Pfffft what would AFL coaches know about who played well?  According to opposition fans on Facebook he only gets 30 backwards handpasses a game and doesn't hurt the opposition.  They'd know more than the coaches wouldn't they?

Hopefully, the umpires are switched on and give Oliver the Brownlow votes he deserves.

I still find it baffling that footy fans rate/like players not from their team eg Cripps, Danger, Dusty, Bontempelli, Neale etc etc but don't rate or like Oliver.

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5 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Hopefully, the umpires are switched on and give Oliver the Brownlow votes he deserves.

I still find it baffling that footy fans rate/like players not from their team eg Cripps, Danger, Dusty, Bontempelli, Neale etc etc but don't rate or like Oliver.

Agreed. I was out for lunch yesterday with a couple of Carlton supporting mates, who were baffled by the level of my delight when asked about Clarry's 7 year deal.

 

Oliver likely to win b2b coaches awards is rare air. I think Ablett Jnr was the last player to do so.

3 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

Oliver likely to win b2b coaches awards is rare air. I think Ablett Jnr was the last player to do so.

Forget back to back, Ablett Jnr is the ONLY player to win more than one coaches award over the course of an entire career.

Clarry will be in rare company if he continues this form.


5 minutes ago, Demon Jack said:

Forget back to back, Ablett Jnr is the ONLY player to win more than one coaches award over the course of an entire career.

Clarry will be in rare company if he continues this form.

Out of curiosity, went and had a look at the complete list. Ablett Jr won it three times in consecutive years (2007-2009). Interestingly, Simon Goodwin won it in 2006.

To state the obvious, it's a list of very good players: https://aflcoaches.com.au/awards/the-aflca-champion-player-of-the-year-award

Despite his flat patch petracca sits equal 3rd in the coaches award. When he is on he is unstoppable.

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7 minutes ago, Demon Jack said:

Forget back to back, Ablett Jnr is the ONLY player to win more than one coaches award over the course of an entire career.

Clarry will be in rare company if he continues this form.

And whats even scarier is that he will probably clean up is kicking a bit more, goalkicking a bit more. And when he gets even more confidence and experience, he will exit stoppage and move to the right places even more. There is no question on his contested dominance. He is probably only 2nd to Diesel - but that was a different era arguably at the end of his career he may just be the GOAT. 

Trac is a bit more balanced in contested / uncontested footy, which is fine. You have to have different types of players in the middle. But even his clearance play, explosiveness and sheer power will go down in history. 

Add Viney and Gawn into that mix and we have a centre square line-up that is truly remarkable. 

29 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Out of curiosity, went and had a look at the complete list. Ablett Jr won it three times in consecutive years (2007-2009). Interestingly, Simon Goodwin won it in 2006.

To state the obvious, it's a list of very good players: https://aflcoaches.com.au/awards/the-aflca-champion-player-of-the-year-award

with clarry already on 83 points he's likely to break the points record, too

Another sensational year from Clarry.  I think we have Clarry polling Brownlow votes in at least 9 (maybe 11) of our 15 games so far.  Likely only issue is if he gets the 3,2,1.  I think C……Petracca will be the one to take votes off Clarry.  Guys like Brayshaw, Neale, Miller and Cripps won’t have another star taking votes. 

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11 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Another sensational year from Clarry.  I think we have Clarry polling Brownlow votes in at least 9 (maybe 11) of our 15 games so far.  Likely only issue is if he gets the 3,2,1.  I think C……Petracca will be the one to take votes off Clarry.  Guys like Brayshaw, Neale, Miller and Cripps won’t have another star taking votes. 

I reckon Gawn has 4 x 3 vote games so far as well.  Port, Giants, Hawthorn and Swans.  

2 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Another sensational year from Clarry.  I think we have Clarry polling Brownlow votes in at least 9 (maybe 11) of our 15 games so far.  Likely only issue is if he gets the 3,2,1.  I think C……Petracca will be the one to take votes off Clarry.  Guys like Brayshaw, Neale, Miller and Cripps won’t have another star taking votes. 

There will be others taking votes...Walsh at Carlton for example poles well, not sure how Rowell is going this season at GC.

Neale will be the one though, a bit of an umpires pet.

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