AFL Player # 1: Andrew "Pidge" McGrath (Vice-Captain)

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Restricted Free Agent 2024
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 13, Vindicater

 

[DERO]

LOLE

 

[Yoda_]

AFLPA - Best 1st Year player award to go with his NAB Rising Star award

Kid is gonna be a gun.. Oh wait, already is

 

[emblurr]

It's a shame Burton wasn't eligible so we could go through the melting moments again

 

[daffo]

It's a shame Burton wasn't eligible so we could go through the melting moments again

I'm still half expecting the melts as they won't understand the rules.

 

[DapperDon]

I feel sorry for Brunton,

When he doesn't turn into a Leigh Matthews, Luke Hodge, Wayne Carey, Darren Jarman hybrid they are gonna turn on him with much spite.

 

[Phat Toni]

It's a shame Burton wasn't eligible so we could go through the melting moments again

I have to admit I smiled when I saw the award but that faded as I realised my Hawks mates weren't going to be as upset.....

Great year young fella.......

 

[JuniorWatch]

A teacher at Brighton Grammar told me that the choir was going under due to lack of numbers last year so Andy joined it and saved the day.
Then all the rest of the footy boyz went 'Andy's joining the choir, he's good at footy, let's join the choir!'.
What a little QT sweetheart.

 

[Le Archie]

A teacher at Brighton Grammar told me that the choir was going under due to lack of numbers last year so Andy joined it and saved the day.
Then all the rest of the footy boyz went 'Andy's joining the choir, he's good at footy, let's join the choir!'.
What a little QT sweetheart.

That's a great story but the reality is the choir would have sounded terrible with 22 Brighton Grammar footy players singing baritone. I'm having Kernahan flashbacks.

 

[Blind Turn]

Burton will win, but the off chance he doesn't Hawkes board will explode more than when good mate Goldspink booted them from the prelim back in 01.

Please let it happen

You weren't wrong.

 

[Summer Nights]

A teacher at Brighton Grammar told me that the choir was going under due to lack of numbers last year so Andy joined it and saved the day.
Then all the rest of the footy boyz went 'Andy's joining the choir, he's good at footy, let's join the choir!'.
What a little QT sweetheart.

Bless his little singing cherub lips.

 

[Laverde2Smack]

A teacher at Brighton Grammar told me that the choir was going under due to lack of numbers last year so Andy joined it and saved the day.
Then all the rest of the footy boyz went 'Andy's joining the choir, he's good at footy, let's join the choir!'.
What a little QT sweetheart.

Andy confirmed this when he was on the footy show a while back. Would have been cooler if he did it to snag a chick like in American Pie..

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[Andronicus]

Best first year player at the mvp awards.

Award is unfairly weighted to favour first year players.

 

[JDavey]

Andy confirmed this when he was on the footy show a while back. Would have been cooler if he did it to snag a chick like in American Pie..

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Doing something to help others is far cooler then doing it to try and get a girl...

 

[Max Headroom]

Doing something to help others is far cooler then doing it to try and get a girl...

That's what the girls think too

 

[FlyingV]

Really excited about the prospect McGrath, Parish and Merrett heading into this preseason in good health. If they can keep building their bodies and tanks we will have a midfield that can run teams off their legs which isn't something we have had in 15 plus years...

 

[yaco55]

Interestingly enough there were more noms for 2nd and 3rd year players this year than for 18 year olds from the last intake.

Think it's a massive double standard, it should be for first year players only regardless of age.

Posted previously there should be two awards - One for first year players and a second award for players under the age of 21.

 

[Loonerty]

Posted previously there should be two awards - One for first year players and a second award for players under the age of 21.

There are.

Andy won them both.

 

[yaco55]

There are.

Andy won them both.

I am discussing the Rising Star Award, not any other awards.

 

[Andronicus]

I am discussing the Rising Star Award, not any other awards.

Serious Sam is serious.

 

[Yoda_]

Against the grain with this but feel he would be better served playing his second year mostly in defence. A very good offensive player with a deffensive mindset is worth more than any goal kicking midfielder.

A Brodie Smith is more valuable than a Rory Sloane to the Crows outfit, a player like Dustin Martin is an exception to the rule.

For what it's worth, he should spend some time running on the ball, but for the most part, he'll spend it in defence.

 

[vast]

Against the grain with this but feel he would be better served playing his second year mostly in defence. A very good offensive player with a deffensive mindset is worth more than any goal kicking midfielder.

A Brodie Smith is more valuable than a Rory Sloane to the Crows outfit, a player like Dustin Martin is an exception to the rule.

For what it's worth, he should spend some time running on the ball, but for the most part, he'll spend it in defence.

I see the point you are trying to make but we were crying out for mids that run both ways this year. He and parish are that type. He will certainly be a loss to the back 6 though

 

[JayJ20]

Out of contract and managed by Connors

 

[mickd]

Latest HSun article (subscribers only)

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...n/news-story/d7a8982002d145c1f053fde82448793f

Andrew McGrath waiting for a better contract offer from Essendon


ADRIAN Dodoro’s final challenge after a masterful trade period for Essendon is to find the money for a contract extension for Andrew McGrath.

McGrath, 19, won this year’s Rising Star in a superb season that he hopes will set him up for a move to the wing in 2018.

The classy half-back and Brisbane midfielder Hugh McCluggage are the only players from last year’s top 10 picks not to re-sign.


Talks over McGrath’s extension were put off by mutual agreement mid-year after the Dons’ modest initial offer.

The cost of a likely two-year extension is the only haggling point for McGrath’s management and Dons list manager.

The Dons have picks 48 and 67 in next month’s national draft. Jackson Merrett is likely to be delisted and Ben Howlett is hopeful of a one-year deal.

Last year’s overall No.1 pick McGrath told the Herald Sun in Grand Final week he wanted to end his career asbe a one-club player.

His manager Robbie D’Orazio, of Connors Sports, said then that talks to extend a deal past 2018 would soon heat up.

“He won the Rising Star, he was voted the best first-year player by the players, he played 20 of 22 home-and-away games and a final and he’s a special talent,’’ he said.

“So he’s a special talent and an impressive young man and I am sure we will be able to sit down early in the new year to look to extend his contract.”

Out of contract at Essendon are Josh Green, who kicked 17 goals in 17 games, and Shaun McKernan, who played three senior games.

 

[mickd]

What is worth per year? What do you think he will realistically get from us?

 

[Rack Watts]

Pay the man.