Swooper1987

Lamb knows how to handle himself in front of a camera. 18 years as a copper, a former Detective Sergeant, state crime squad. Nothing Twomey or any of the other media throw at him will phase him in the slightest. He'll have been on the receiving end of much bigger grillings from the judiciary than anything these guys could throw at him.

Nah, Laurie Fowler won 3 (75, 79-80) and a couple of other multiples - Wells and Alves. Flower was second in 79, 80, 82 and 83. Missed games in all but 1980, which was one of only 2 full seasons he played, the other being 1978. It's just a flawed system. Geelong had a system whereby the four lowest polling rounds were excluded for all players. That seems a pretty fair way to do it. Allows for games missed through injury to not unduly influence the result.

The Flower effect. Despite being universally regarded as our best player for most of his career, Robbie only won it once. Most seasons he'd miss a game or two. I agree.

Good point. Gawn averaged 19.3 votes per game, Viney 17.7. It does seem low, that our two best players over the season couldn't hit an average of 20 (50% of the available votes). Gawn's season especially was statistically the third best of his career. Seems quite harsh, doesn't it?

Agree. He sounded like a bloke who needs a break, a recharge and a reset.

Viney 407, Gawn 405, Nibbler 402. Both Viney and ANB played every game.

You have to play every game to win it unfortunately for Max. Clearly our best player all year but congratulations to Viney. Not his best season but our coaches obviously rated it. Never doubt his effort or commitment.

Will be a tight finish. Gawn missed two and half games in the back end. Viney wasn't great other than Gold Coast but didn't miss a match. Under the system MFC uses it's almost impossible to win this award if you don't play every game. Probably explains why Flower only managed the one over his career.

Heard the same, from a very well known and highly regarded former player who left the club following the 2021 flag. Gawn and Petracca are very much in alignment over the way the Oliver "issues" have been allowed to fester over a period of time.

It won't be Pert going. If Barrett is correct, and the review has uncovered player concerns about Oliver and his preferential treatment, on top of more behavioural concerns, Goodwin's position becomes almost untenable. The CEO, no doubt with board authority, is acting against the reported wishes of the Footy Department and the Head Coach. I don't see how that situation gets resolved. Or alternatively, most of what we are hearing is rubbish and it all goes away in a couple of weeks!

The greatest Melbourne player I have seen. My boyhood hero and the reason I became a Melbourne supporter as a young boy in the late 70's. As a team, we were a laughing stock, but we always had the great Rob Flower.

Top 10 in the AFLCA Votes for MFC 1. Gawn - 56 2. Petracca - 36 3. Pickett - 31 4. Viney - 30 5. Rivers - 24 6. May - 23 7. Lever - 17 8. McVee - 16 9. Neal-Bullen - 15 10. Langdon - 14

They would be the top 6, I'd imagine. TMac would be up there as well. Gawn should bolt it in but the vagaries of our system (up to 40 votes per game) means missing a couple of game scan be costly. Gawn received the most coaches votes for us by a comfortable margin for what that's worth.

Nah, he wasn't. His stats looked ok but once again, played like a little man in a big man's body. He had no impact. Rowbottom was actually their best player, and by some margin. Grundy just piled up a bunch of fairly irrelevant handballs and took the grand total of one contested mark for the game. The Lions would be stoked with Fort's game.

Impossible to judge the impact of McQualter this season. No Brayshaw, Oliver a shadow, Petracca half a season, much of which was spent forward, Viney struggled for large parts.