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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Award 2026
Last post by crashlander -I've left the voting thread open for longer, because of the short week. But, losing turns voters off, and another fail hurts. Especially as we managed to grab defeat from the jaws of victory yet again.
Trends:
[1] There were 10 voters this round, which is the same as last round. Nichevo. 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 7.7, which represents a C-, is the best we've managed for the year and we still lost.
Our rating of the Richmond game, our only win, was 7.69.
[3] 18 players managed a mention again this week. Clearly, almost everyone of doing something, enough to get noticed, just not enough to get us over the line.
[4] The average vote this week was 25, which is also our equal best of the year. Scores are around 30 when we win, so read into that what you will.
[5] 5 players managed 100 votes or more. That is excellent, I don't think we've managed better.
[6] Sam Walsh was BOG for the 4th time this season with 196 votes. He was followed by Carroll, Florent, Newman and Williams.
[7] No player managed votes from everyone this week, This is another thing without Precedence and shows why we aren't winning.
[8] It was hard to determine a trend among the vote getters this week, as so many of our players did something.
[9] Matt Carroll was probably our most effective youngsters on the night.
Votes:
Walsh, Sam 196
Florent, Oliver 146
Carroll, Matthew 135
Newman, Nicholas 127
William, Zac 127
Hayward, Will 85
McGovern, Mitchell 73
Pittonet, Marc 54
Ainsworth, Ben 54
Cripps, Patrick 35
McKay, Harrison 35
Weitering, Jacob 23
Cowan, Lachlan 23
Young, Lewis 12
Haynes, Nicholas 8
Evans, Francis 8
Smith, Jagga 8
Kemp, Brodie 8
Progressive Voting:
Walsh, Sam 1173
Pittonet, Marc 696
Patrick Cripps 481
Mitch McGovern 458
Hollands, Elijah 426
Smith, Jagga 409
Weitering, Jacob 362
Matthew Carroll 327
William, Zac 249
Florent, Oliver 240
Hollands. Ollie 232
Newman, Nic 218
Ainsworth, Ben 202
Lord, Cooper 144
Haynes, Nick 122
Will Hayward 93
Kemp, Brodie 87
Young, Lewis 81
Hewett, George 75
Harry McKay 64
Dean, Harry 51
Cowan, Lachie 47
Byrne, Talor 34
Boyd, Jordan 27
Evans, Francis 23
Cerra, Adam 16
Looking at the voting and a number of things really stand out:
[1] Sam Walsh has easily been our best player so far this year, yet he hasn't really been as good as he can be. And he is our most effective mid by far.
[2] The rest of our midfield has really struggled to make an impact. Pittonet is 2nd, yet he has struggled to dominate opponents. Cripps is usually over a 100 votes by the this time, yet he is not half that. Cerra barely rates a mention. George is little better.
[3] Jagga Smith is 6th, and he has struggled to make the same impact that he did to start the year.
[4] Other than Marc Pittonet, few players have improved their scores. Elijah Hollands was good, but his career is now under a cloud. Matt Carroll is making a much bigger contribution, as had Mitch McGovern. And that's about it.
[5] Some of our senior players are not even on the list. Saad, Acres and Cottrell don't have a vote. George and Adam Cerra barely have any. H, our key forward, hasn't even managed 100 votes yet.
[6] Our replacements for de Koning, Silvagni and Curnow have struggled to make much of an impact. Ainsworth has been the pick of them, with 202 votes.