Best Rookie Voting

[Kane McGoodwin]

OK, we need to decide what to do wih the best rookie voting. With our depth this year, it is unlikely that we will have 3 rookies to vote for each week & we may end up giving votes to those not worthy with a bad perfromance. ie. last years criteria - ie. any player under 23 who has played less than a season worth of games, only the following qualify:

Bock, Nathan
Hentschel, Trent
Jericho, Luke
Mattner, Martin
Reilly, Brent
Rutten, Ben
Schuback, Jacob
Smith, Matthew

Options as I see it are:
1. Just award 1 rookie a vote each week as per sapaul's suggestion.
2. Change the eligibility to say up to 50 games say, which would allow a few more players like Stiffy to be eligible (otherwise it is likely to become the Reilly award the way things are looking).

[napsyd]

I voted for change it to just one vote.

Although this may make it the Reilly award, I think it is now unreasonable to call players like John(ock rookies.

[marvin]

I don't want to see the criteria changed. Stiffy was a rookie last year, but he's got a full season and a finals campaign under his belt now.

There's a few around with less than 50 games - Crowell, Doughty, Marsh, Perrie, Schell, Shirley, Ladhams, Gallagher - but is it really fair to the likes of Reilly and Mattner to rate their performances as rookies to a number of players who have been through a tough finals campaign and are borderline seasoned players?

[Spogs]

I think we could do the rookies in a similar way that Channel 9 do their best player thing. Is someone lists the eligible players we could give them a rating out of 5 or 10.

E.G. I gave Mattner 2 just because noone else was eligible (and by the way Jars it wasn't because I'm a Sturt supporter, it was because I must have been ****ed). If it was out of 10, I would have given Reilly 5 and Mattner 1. So each rookie gets rated independant of how the other rookies play.

[Spogs]

Forget that idea. Just thought it through and we'd have to have the same number of voters each week.

Carry on.

[Jars458]

Should be just one player getting the vote.

Too many times last year players got votes and they did nothing.

[macca23]

Looks like 1 vote for the week is the go. My 1 is obviously for Reilly then.

[Kane McGoodwin]

Unless there is a dramatic turn around in this poll, 1 vote will be the go in 2003.