Toast 5 Lions in All-Australian Squad

[Football Pope]

Shannon Hurn as VC and Fyfe as captain.

4 team Captains in the team...Pendlebury, Cripps Fyfe & Hurn

 

[Dylan12]

You'd have to think Mitch Robinson would be a fair chance of winning the Most Courageous Award at tomorrow nights AFLPA Awards tomorrow night.

I suspect Victorian darling Dylan Grimes will get the award, but my bias is obviously evident. Brad Shepherd of the Eagles would have to also be in contention for the award.

 

[MacMum]

Yep....It's the season's premiership coach

Edit: 1998 was the final season in which the coach of the All-Australian team was not necessarily the premiership coach.

David King is adament it should be our Fages..

 

[CarterS]

Mccluggage would have made it if they picked actual wingers instead of putting mids on the wing. That was a bit of a disappointing decision. Also agree with D King about Turn, how was he not captain?

 

[kenberger]

Very impressive what Harris Andrews has managed to achieve after last year’s injury. Many in the media and on this board wondered if he’d ever be the same player again. We needn’t have worried. Congratulations to all 3

 

[knaf]

Interesting viewing the players selected for the AFLPA MVP squad. think of players who have the respect of there peers and then look at the Geelong squad.

 

[Dylan12]

 

[jonnobackpocket]

Harro-1st of ten AA’s on the hop. Superstar in every sense of the word. I like Fyfe getting captain that dude is a champion player.

 

[Football Pope]

You'd have to think Mitch Robinson would be a fair chance of winning the Most Courageous Award at tomorrow nights AFLPA Awards tomorrow night.

I suspect Victorian darling Dylan Grimes will get the award, but my bias is obviously evident. Brad Shepherd of the Eagles would have to also be in contention for the award.

I thought it was the Joel Selwood award

 

[luthor]

Grundy was a lock (no issues there) but then tossing in Gawn to boot was an absolute joke.

Neither of them could be classed capable of "resting" forward to any great effect.

Pendles gets another gong, just like Goodwin and Selwood used to get them on reputation.

I'm disappointed McCluggage and Zorks missed out, although not suprised.

Still, three reps in the side is amazing considering from how far back we've come as a club this year

 

[Ironmonger]

Grundy was a lock (no issues there) but then tossing in Gawn to boot was an absolute joke.

Neither of them could be classed capable of "resting" forward to any great effect.

Pendles gets another gong, just like Goodwin and Selwood used to get them on reputation.

I'm disappointed McCluggage and Zorks missed out, although not suprised.

Still, three reps in the side is amazing considering from how far back we've come as a club this year

It diminishes the significance of it a little bit when both Gawn and Grundy are selected. The whole point of the AA team is to be among the best in your position, proportional to how many players in your position there are running around each week.

 

[Tairy Greene]

This AA team is basically like the Demons this year when they had Gawn & Preuss both playing, unbalanced, no outside run & way too many inside mids. What's new tho.

 

[luthor]

This AA team is basically like the Demons this year when they had Gawn & Preuss both playing, unbalanced, no outside run & way too many inside mids. What's new tho.

Hit the nail right on the head there Tairy.

This event is always going to be compromised while they basically just try to pick all the big name mids and squeeze them into positions where bona fide players miss out.

Typical AFL though.

Not much isn't compromised anymore.

 

[haystark]

Mitch Robinson: Why All-Australian panel made a mockery of players by not selecting genuine wingmen

Robinson: All-Australian selectors made a mockery of a lot of players

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[BuntonRules]

Mitch Robinson: Why All-Australian panel made a mockery of players by not selecting genuine wingmen

Robinson: All-Australian selectors made a mockery of a lot of players

www.foxsports.com.au

Onya, Mitch. Have your say, cos you are a lot closer to reality than than those muppets in Melbourne. Clug rules.

 

[haystark]

Is this thread doubling as awards season thread?

Witherden, McCluggage, Hipwood and Andrews all named in the 22 under 22 for 2019. Harris is captain

 

[luthor]

Onya, Mitch. Have your say, cos you are a lot closer to reality than than those muppets in Melbourne. Clug rules.

My respect and admiration for Mitch has just redoubled

 

[T Rick]

Mitch Robinson: Why All-Australian panel made a mockery of players by not selecting genuine wingmen

Robinson: All-Australian selectors made a mockery of a lot of players

www.foxsports.com.au

Great article by Mitch - well worth the read!

 

[haystark]

Lachie Neale finished third in the AFLPA MVP award behind Cripps (winner) and Tim Kelly.

 

[BangyBangy]

Sooooo, did Noah poll a single vote? No probs with Walsh winning at all. But seriously do the people that vote have to watch all the games or is it just done by media hype.

 

[dlanod]

That's the one voted by the players, right?

Most players don't watch most of the games outside of the ones they kind of have to.

 

[Dylan12]

That's the one voted by the players, right?

Most players don't watch most of the games outside of the ones they kind of have to.

Really, if ever there was a flawed award, the AFLPA awards are it.

IMO, it’s as close to a popularity contest as you’d see based on nothing more than the players perception and what they’ve “heard” not what they’ve actually seen consistently. By many players own admission, they don’t watch any other games other than cropped footage of upcoming opponents, yet every single player votes. Then there’s also many young players that would be influenced by senior players in their team on how they’re voting too.

I’m not denying Cripps isn’t an upcoming player or that Neale should’ve won the award, but Cripps was very poor in the first half of the season by his own admission and was soundly beaten by his opponents on many occasions so those that voted were very much biased by his form in the back half of the year when Carlton were winning and the media hype went into overdrive.

I can’t say I’m surprised Robinson didn’t take out the Most Corageous Award as flagged a couple of days ago.

 

[jackess]

I like it when biased lions fans complain about other people's biases

 

[haystark]

IMO Cripps is the MVP. Carlton walk taller when he’s in the team. He’s a notable omission when he’s out because they don’t have any other players in the team of his calibre (yet).

 

[knaf]

Gee the Robbo article is fantastic. Really well thought out and expressed. His analysis shows why it is hard for the average supporter to judge the value of players.