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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Award 2026
Last post by crashlander -I left voting open for longer again: I didn't get to see the replay until Friday night. Sad, but true.
I can understand why people don't want to vote: we still failed. However, I did think this performance was a lot more promising than some of our recent ones have been.
Trends:
[1] There were 10 voters this round, which is the same as last 4 rounds. Nichevo.
This round last year there were 13 voters, but then, we won that time.
When we lose, it is difficult to get voters to care enough to vote, especially when we don't show that we've learnt anything from those losses.
Please do voteplease do vote, win, lose or draw: it is something we appreciate and it makes our statistics a lot more reliable. And our statistics hold up pretty well when it comes to John Nicholls Medal night!
[2] The rating was a 7.90, which represents a C, is the best we've had for the year to this point. We did challenge the reigning premiers on their home deck.
Our rating of the Richmond game, our only win, was 7.69 which says far too much.
[3] 12 players managed a mention this week. However, most of the votes were concentrated on the same handful.
[4] The average vote this week was 26, which is the best result of the year. Scores are around 30 when we win, so read into that what you will. Scores in the high 20's represent an honourable loss. Clearly, this loss was more honourable than some of our earlier ones.
[5] 4 players managed 100 votes or more. This is becoming the norm, which is something I like. But it does suggest that too many others didn't do much at all.
[6] Patrick Cripps was BOG for the 1st time this season with 344 votes. He was followed by Walsh, Hayward and McKay.
This was H's first top 5 finish for the year.
[7] Three player managed votes from everyone this week, Cripps, Hayward & McKay. Walsh missed from one voter, as did Ainsworth.
[8] We had 2 recruits show the way this round, in Ainsworth and Hayward.
[9] Ollie Hollands was our best youngster for the night, followed by Jagga Smith. But it was the experienced players who lifted. This was the first real Cripps-like game from Cripps and it was McKay's best so far by a huge amount.
Votes:
Cripps, Patrick 344
Walsh, Sam 217
McKay, Harrison 186
Hayward, Will 170
Ainsworth, Ben 91
Hollands, Oliver 75
Newman, Nicholas 40
Smith, Jagga 36
McGovern, Mitchell 12
Hewett, George 8
Florent, Oliver 4
Cerra, Adam 4
Progressive Voting:
Walsh, Sam 1716
Patrick Cripps 976
Pittonet, Marc 696
Mitch McGovern 544
Matthew Carroll 540
Newman, Nic 480
Kemp, Brodie 480
Smith, Jagga 465
Florent, Oliver 451
Ainsworth, Ben 440
Hollands, Elijah 426
Weitering, Jacob 366
William, Zac 321
Ollie Hollands 316
Will Hayward 294
Harry McKay 250
Haynes, Nick 247
Lord, Cooper 152
Hewett, George 83
Young, Lewis 81
Dean, Harry 51
Cowan, Lachie 47
Byrne, Talor 34
Liam Reidy 28
Boyd, Jordan 27
Evans, Francis 26
Cerra, Adam 23
Adam Saad 15
To give you some idea how down we are, George Hewett has 83 votes. He won the John Nicholls Medal last year. Adam Cerra has 23, the second lowest of anyone who has votes so far. And Adam Saad is the lowest vote getter. These guys have been significant in previous years.
Elijah Hollands, who hasn't played since the Collingwood game, is still ahead of Jacob Weitering.
