MAXIMUM GRUNDAGE
Premiership Captain
Steven May? Nah you're just taking the piss now Mofra.
May is gonna make opposition forward lines poo their pants next year.
May is gonna make opposition forward lines poo their pants next year.
DanWAPlayer #9 - Andrew Gaff
Pictured: Andrew Gaff appears 'over the moon' for his teammates to have won the Grand Final
Wait, wut? Gaff who was probably in the Brownlow conversation up until round 19 2018? Yes, that Andrew Gaff.
You see the Bottom 50 has always been weighted toward finals performances. Some guys just dominate (or at least, contribute strongly during) the H&A season but then either play well below their best in September (Nick Riewoldt), well below their best (Gary Rohan) or get a medal named after them (the great Leon Davis). Gaff one-upped all of them but getting himself into the best form of his career, earning the respect of all and sundry until a moment of ill-disciplined madness ruled him out for the rest of the year:
Pictured: A flush hit to the mouth of a teenager
Now, it's not the 50s anymore - coward punches are not on, least of all on a football field. It was the biggest story in the AFL world this year at the time - as big as other timeless classics such as the Essendon drugs saga, Wayne Carey on Kelli Stevens, and that time Andrew Walker wore a hat to training .
Fortunately for West Coast they copped Collingwood twice in September who tend to choke in big finals harder than the Western Sydney Giants tend to choke in big finals. This meant West Coast losing their best midfielder for the month didn't hurt them as much as it would have done in every other single year in AFL/VFL history except for 1924 in which no Grand Final was played (Essendon still claim the flag from that year because they are dirty dirty cheats). Bottom line is Gaff's contribution in September was confined to cheering his teammates on from the sidelines which, as you can see from the first photo, he filled with muted gusto.
Of course that didn't mean the athleticism attached to the Gaff name stopped: some West Coast fans engaged in acts of mental gymnastics so impressive they'd need to pee in a vial just to watch Olympic highlights on you-tube. One particular meltdown was damn near award-worthy.
Pictured: The West Coast Eagles cheer squad captain
The Brayshaws to their credit have largely played down the issue despite there being at least some portion of recessive attention-whore gene in the family DNA.
Pictured: Does KissStephanie still post on BF?
Anyway long story short, Andrew Gaff assaulted a teenager which makes him a perfect candidate for the Bottom 50 for 2018 and sadly the US Supreme Court as well.
Gaff, good luck in the pre-season and your delayed start to 2019. I believe you when you say it was out of character, welcome to your first (and likely, last) entry in the Bottom 50.