Goal kicking award (Coleman equivalent - most goals) - Darcy Vescio
Goal of the year award - Erin Phillips (Adelaide)
Mark of the year award - Darcy Vescio
All australian squad.
Bri Davey makes CHB
Darcy Vescio makes it in the FP.
R1 vs Collingwood
3. L. Arnell
2. D. Vescio
1. B. Davey
R2 vs GWS
3. D. Vescio
2. J. Dal Pos (GWS)
1. S. Audley
R3 vs Adelaide
3. C. Randall (Ade)
2. L. Arnell
1. E. Phillips (Ade)
Phillips had 2 BOGs before this, but kicked the goal of the year to win them the game....and only gets 1 vote.
It appears backmen also get overlooked in this medal. B. Davey had 3 BOGs for us so far. 1 vote from the umps.
R4 vs Melbourne
3. K Paxman (Mel)
2. E. Odea (Mel)
1. I. Ayre
Rising Star Award.
- Must be under 21 at the start of the year.
- 2 nominees per round (14 total)
- Judges vote 5,4,3,2,1 from the nominees.
- Most votes wins....obviously.
We had 2 nominees.
R5 - T. Lucas-Rodd
R5 - I. Ayre
Winner - E. Marinoff (Ade)
2. Frederich-Traub (Bris)
3. Mithen (Melb)
4. Bevan (Ade)
5. Grierson (Melb)
R5 vs Western Bulldogs
3. E. Blackburn (WB)
2. D. Vescio
1. B. Davey
R6 vs Fremantle
3. K. Donnellan (Fre)
2. A. Janz (Fre)
1. L. Arnell
R7 vs Brisbane
3. B. Davey
2. E. Bates (Bris)
1. K. Gillespie-Jones
Winner: Erin Phillips (Ade)
Table:
14 - E. Phillips (Ade)
10 - K. Paxman (Melb)
10 - E. Blackburn (WB)
9 - L. Filocomo (Freo)
Our girls...
7 - D. Vescio
6 - L. Arnell
5 - B. Davey
1 - S. Audley
1 - I. Ayre
1 - K. Gillespie-Jones
Daisy Pearce destroyed us in that game, thought she had 3 votes in the bag.
Should make mention that in her acceptance speech, Erin Phillips casually thanked her wife, among others. Then pointed out her wife on the table with the rest of the adelaide girls.
LEAPS ahead of the blokes in that regard.
Nah
Lots of the blokes thank their wives :D
Erin spoke at some length about her family when interviewed by Charlie Pickering. In the following days there was some discussion about how Erin's openness and the apparent ready public acceptance of her situation may make it easier for blokes to come out.
Why the umpiring hate, or at least a lack of love, for Bri Davey?
Often the media awards closely follow the official awards even if there are slight differences, but in this case Davey isn't even close!
Does she sledge the umpires?
The only time Bri was properly stuck in defense was at each center bounce, after that she was pretty much everywhere on the ground!
Head to Head I thought Bri smashed Phillips and the other Adelaide guns.
There is a lot of politically incorrect assertions I could make about potential reasons behind this voting pattern, but I'll just say discrimination is discrimination whether it's labeled positive or negative.
Her major problem is, that she played too consistently well, and needed to have one bad game in order to get the full attention she deserved.
As Woody Allen said - there are many different kinds of love. There's the love between a man and a woman, the love a mother has for her children, etc., and let's not forget my favourite kind of love - the love between two women ;D
Mods - delete at will.
Bri spent 90% of her time back of centre. She was named at CHB in the all-australian team.
She is a defender.
....which means that every mark she takes in defence is put down to a poor kick by the opposition players, rather than elite reading of the play by her.
Not sure when the club B+F is, but i'd expect her to take that out.