Best & Fairest OFFICIAL Update Thread

saint66au · Post: # 658924Post **saint66au** » Sun 05 Oct 2008 4:59pm

COngratulations to Raph, however Im sure this award gave the Club some concern, as none of our younger players show consistant promise throughout the season.

Jones, Attard, Raph, Armo. Mini and Allen were all dropped for form at some point and most finished the season with the Scorps

Raphs good form in losing sides in the finals probably edged him over the line

goodie · Post: # 658946Post **goodie** » Sun 05 Oct 2008 6:07pm

Cirra wrote:I was there and had a great night also. The players I spoke to we fabulous to the fans, eg Milne, Gwilt, Harvey, Max and S. Fisher.

I was lucky enough to win the bid for Sam Fisher's jumper and he was great enough to personalise it a bit for me after he won his medal. I can't wait to frame it with the picture of us.

We done Sammy!

Nice, if you don't mind my asking how much was your winning bid?

Cirra · Post: # 658951Post **Cirra** » Sun 05 Oct 2008 6:24pm

I paid $1050 for it. Lucky in the end I thought.

goodie · Post: # 658954Post **goodie** » Sun 05 Oct 2008 6:39pm

Cirra wrote:I paid $1050 for it. Lucky in the end I thought.

Not bad.

Oh, I forgot to mention in my report: Robert Harvey's final match jumper was sold for $21,000

saints11 · Post: # 658955Post **saints11** » Sun 05 Oct 2008 6:45pm

goodie wrote:
Cirra wrote:I paid $1050 for it. Lucky in the end I thought.
Not bad.

Oh, I forgot to mention in my report: Robert Harvey's final match jumper was sold for $21,000

What a legend it doesn't shock me

goodie · Post: # 658982Post **goodie** » Sun 05 Oct 2008 7:44pm

saintly · Post: # 659158Post **saintly** » Mon 06 Oct 2008 8:37am

Saints Premiers 2008 wrote:did we over-rate rooey's second half of the year??? or was his first half of the season that average???

the brownlow showed it and now the b and f when at the end of the home and away season we were going nuts and orgasming about how good his second half of the year was

first half was average as roo had knee problems.

saintly · Post: # 659160Post **saintly** » Mon 06 Oct 2008 8:52am

saintbrat wrote:PS; I bet Jimmy didn't get as much for cutting his locks off as Chance did-

did gwilt cut his hair?

saintbrat · Post: # 659402Post **saintbrat** » Mon 06 Oct 2008 4:37pm

yes- not shaved But close-

cowboy18 · Post: # 659408Post **cowboy18** » Mon 06 Oct 2008 4:47pm

Can anyone outline the voting procedures?

From memory every player on the day gets votes from X number of people (match committee?)? Am I in the ball park there?

stmac35 · Post: # 659410Post **stmac35** » Mon 06 Oct 2008 4:50pm

Each player ranked out of ten by five people. Pretty close.

Great pics by the way.

saintbrat · Post: # 659414Post **saintbrat** » Mon 06 Oct 2008 4:55pm

stmac35 wrote:Each player ranked out of ten by five people. Pretty close.

Great pics by the way.

correct- so no play no vote- most possible 50

at the end of rd 22 there were only 6 points between Roo, Lenny and Sam
Nick didn't poll in top ten ( all that was shown and read out-) for first final- Sam got 40,
Sam then polled in both of the last two finals as did Lenny and Nick But Sam was within the top 3 each game.

cowboy18 · Post: # 659430Post **cowboy18** » Mon 06 Oct 2008 5:10pm

saintbrat wrote:
stmac35 wrote:Each player ranked out of ten by five people. Pretty close.

Great pics by the way.
correct- so no play no vote- most possible 50

at the end of rd 22 there were only 6 points between Roo, Lenny and Sam
Nick didn't poll in top ten ( all that was shown and read out-) for first final- Sam got 40,
Sam then polled in both of the last two finals as did Lenny and Nick But Sam was within the top 3 each game.

Thanks for that.

That's a good way to reward a combination of consistency and excellence. Are all clubs similar in doing that or are some of them more elite (e.g. 10 to 1 for the best 10 players etc.)

saintbrat · Post: # 659445Post **saintbrat** » Mon 06 Oct 2008 5:39pm

cowboy18 wrote: Thanks for that.

That's a good way to reward a combination of consistency and excellence. Are all clubs similar in doing that or are some of them more elite (e.g. 10 to 1 for the best 10 players etc.)

any team where the votes are up into the 100's for the winner would have to be on the same sort of system
I get the impression it's sort of up to the coaching staff / football department as to how they wish to rank/ rate the players

The Saints also seem to be one of the clubs with fewer rather than more awards players can get-
this year there was only the Barker medal, the Most promising and the new- Most Professional

last year there were only two from memory- again a youngster and the Barker-

some clubs have so many that just about every player could get one- heard that a young blue managed two awards- one of which got him a TAG watch

hotdish · Post: # 659701Post **hotdish** » Tue 07 Oct 2008 11:20am

goodie wrote:
Finally, one Saints big man who I will not name (but before conclusions are jumped to it was not MG) was having a very good night. Commenting that he thought he might get cut off soon, he had a bottle of Crown stashed in his inside jacket pocket and kept taking peoples' cameras off them.

Hmmmm...

LVR or Rix?

anyone?

EDIT - just read this from the casey B&F report...

"Birss and Rix are both out of contract and waiting for this week's AFL trading period to see what 2009 holds."

Must be Rix...

saintly · Post: # 659758Post **saintly** » Tue 07 Oct 2008 1:16pm

saintbrat wrote:
cowboy18 wrote: Thanks for that.

That's a good way to reward a combination of consistency and excellence. Are all clubs similar in doing that or are some of them more elite (e.g. 10 to 1 for the best 10 players etc.)
any team where the votes are up into the 100's for the winner would have to be on the same sort of system
I get the impression it's sort of up to the coaching staff / football department as to how they wish to rank/ rate the players

The Saints also seem to be one of the clubs with fewer rather than more awards players can get-
this year there was only the Barker medal, the Most promising and the new- Most Professional

last year there were only two from memory- again a youngster and the Barker-

some clubs have so many that just about every player could get one- heard that a young blue managed two awards- one of which got him a TAG watch

in the GT era, i think they only had the main B&F award.

goodie · Post: # 659760Post **goodie** » Tue 07 Oct 2008 1:19pm

hotdish wrote:
goodie wrote:
Finally, one Saints big man who I will not name (but before conclusions are jumped to it was not MG) was having a very good night. Commenting that he thought he might get cut off soon, he had a bottle of Crown stashed in his inside jacket pocket and kept taking peoples' cameras off them.
Hmmmm...

LVR or Rix?

anyone?

EDIT - just read this from the casey B&F report...

"Birss and Rix are both out of contract and waiting for this week's AFL trading period to see what 2009 holds."

Must be Rix...

By cut off, I meant as in barred from drinking for the rest of the night, not cut from the list

Bernard Shakey · Tue 07 Oct 2008 1:26pm

saint66au wrote:COngratulations to Raph, however Im sure this award gave the Club some concern, as none of our younger players show consistant promise throughout the season.

Jones, Attard, Raph, Armo. Mini and Allen were all dropped for form at some point and most finished the season with the Scorps

Raphs good form in losing sides in the finals probably edged him over the line

Attard?

Selhurst Saint · Tue 07 Oct 2008 1:26pm

Can someone remind me of the name of the so called comedian. He was a complete embaressment and Kosi would have had every right to nut him.

saint66au · Post: # 659802Post **saint66au** » Tue 07 Oct 2008 2:20pm

Bernard Shakey wrote:
saint66au wrote:COngratulations to Raph, however Im sure this award gave the Club some concern, as none of our younger players show consistant promise throughout the season.

Jones, Attard, Raph, Armo. Mini and Allen were all dropped for form at some point and most finished the season with the Scorps

Raphs good form in losing sides in the finals probably edged him over the line
Attard?

Doh!! meant Geary...apologies lol

saintbrat · Post: # 659848Post **saintbrat** » Tue 07 Oct 2008 3:25pm

Selhurst Saint wrote:Can someone remind me of the name of the so called comedian. He was a complete embaressment and Kosi would have had every right to nut him.

Glad JK23 and I were at the loo- or he may have been decked.

although my young companion wasn't as agrieved as some.

jk23 · Post: # 659976Post **jk23** » Tue 07 Oct 2008 8:02pm

Selhurst Saint wrote:Can someone remind me of the name of the so called comedian. He was a complete embaressment and Kosi would have had every right to nut him.

What did he say about Kosi ??

Dis Believer · Tue 07 Oct 2008 8:23pm

His name was Bryce something or someone Bryce, can't remember. Didn't really listen to him so don't know what he said, the opening was slow and it went down hill rapidly.

Great night though, we ended up at a couple of bars in Crown (no idea which ones) following Luke Ball and his lady friend up the stairs (quite a view, lucky bugger).

Great night, but paid a price on Sunday..........

goodie · Post: # 660096Post **goodie** » Tue 07 Oct 2008 11:29pm

Selhurst Saint wrote:Can someone remind me of the name of the so called comedian. He was a complete embaressment and Kosi would have had every right to nut him.

I would've thought Gehrig would be within his rights, with that poor joke about Robert Harvey shouldn't decide to make a comeback two months from now.

Speaking of which, I didn't see the big G, was he there?

jk23 · Post: # 660130Post **jk23** » Wed 08 Oct 2008 8:09am

goodie wrote:
Selhurst Saint wrote:Can someone remind me of the name of the so called comedian. He was a complete embaressment and Kosi would have had every right to nut him.
I would've thought Gehrig would be within his rights, with that poor joke about Robert Harvey shouldn't decide to make a comeback two months from now.

Speaking of which, I didn't see the big G, was he there?

When I made my booking for the B&F I asked if G was going to attend and the club said no as he was overseas...