Best player this year

[Sylvia Saint]

Who has been Melbourne's best player in 2005?

I say Robbo.

 

[davey_magik]

Robbo. Has been our most consistent and has never dropped his head.
Beamer has been my favourite player since he came to the club, but he hasn't been the best this year. However IMO he will finish top 3 in our B&F/

 

[Supermercado]

I'm for Robbo as well. He's easily been the most consistent.

 

[Klyntonius]

A few years ago consistent and Robbo were repelants, they wouldn't go together. The last couple of years though, he has worked exceptionally hard and I would agree he has been our most consistent. Beamer will get better as he settles in further to the club and has had a good season too but has probably gone missing a bit much lately.

 

[The Shev]

Johnstone has dropped off lately, Moloney has another good game and as does Robbo. These 3 certainly have been our best, but there are still 4 more matches to decide.

 

[CowboyFromHell]

Robertson by a country mile, and then some.

 

[The Shev]

The most worrying thing is, if Robertson does get up and wins the club best and fairest, is that he will be the only bloke on our list that has won 2 Keith 'Bluey' Truscott medals. Why is this worrying? Well in all fairness, he is essentially a half forward flanker, the third tall forward, an exciting player who has struggled with consistancy up until recent years. He isn't a midfielder or ruckman who is always in the action, nor a full forward who usually win the matches and get on the highlight reel. He isn't the most talented bloke, not the biggest or the quickest or the fittest or the toughest. But if he does get up, then he will join Viney, Lyon and Stynes as the only recent MFC players to win 2 or more B&F's. He will surpass the likes of Neitz, White and Yze who have only won it once, and Bruce, Green and Johnstone who are yet to win the award. These 6 names above are the "leaders" and the best players in the team, yet none of them have been able to win 2 B&F's. If our top 6 can't do it, but a short-arsed half forward flanker can, then what does that say about our leadership group?

This is by no means a dig at Robbo, he is a great player who bleeds red and blue and gives his all every week. He deserves all the awards that come his way, but as I said, he shouldn't be the only player in our "talented" group that has won 2 B&F's.

 

[CowboyFromHell]

The most worrying thing is, if Robertson does get up and wins the club best and fairest, is that he will be the only bloke on our list that has won 2 Keith 'Bluey' Truscott medals. Why is this worrying? Well in all fairness, he is essentially a half forward flanker, the third tall forward, an exciting player who has struggled with consistancy up until recent years. He isn't a midfielder or ruckman who is always in the action, nor a full forward who usually win the matches and get on the highlight reel. He isn't the most talented bloke, not the biggest or the quickest or the fittest or the toughest. But if he does get up, then he will join Viney, Lyon and Stynes as the only recent MFC players to win 2 or more B&F's. He will surpass the likes of Neitz, White and Yze who have only won it once, and Bruce, Green and Johnstone who are yet to win the award. These 6 names above are the "leaders" and the best players in the team, yet none of them have been able to win 2 B&F's. If our top 6 can't do it, but a short-arsed half forward flanker can, then what does that say about our leadership group?

This is by no means a dig at Robbo, he is a great player who bleeds red and blue and gives his all every week. He deserves all the awards that come his way, but as I said, he shouldn't be the only player in our "talented" group that has won 2 B&F's.

Absolutely spot on!

 

[AllStar7]

The most worrying thing is, if Robertson does get up and wins the club best and fairest, is that he will be the only bloke on our list that has won 2 Keith 'Bluey' Truscott medals. Why is this worrying? Well in all fairness, he is essentially a half forward flanker, the third tall forward, an exciting player who has struggled with consistancy up until recent years. He isn't a midfielder or ruckman who is always in the action, nor a full forward who usually win the matches and get on the highlight reel. He isn't the most talented bloke, not the biggest or the quickest or the fittest or the toughest. But if he does get up, then he will join Viney, Lyon and Stynes as the only recent MFC players to win 2 or more B&F's. He will surpass the likes of Neitz, White and Yze who have only won it once, and Bruce, Green and Johnstone who are yet to win the award. These 6 names above are the "leaders" and the best players in the team, yet none of them have been able to win 2 B&F's. If our top 6 can't do it, but a short-arsed half forward flanker can, then what does that say about our leadership group?

This is by no means a dig at Robbo, he is a great player who bleeds red and blue and gives his all every week. He deserves all the awards that come his way, but as I said, he shouldn't be the only player in our "talented" group that has won 2 B&F's.

What that says to me, is that it takes a lot more than talent to get far in football.
Robbo isn't the most talented player on our list, but he has a massive heart and he loves the club. He had a bad season last year, going from CHF back to a small forward position. To his credit, he fought his way back and improved his goal kicking.
If half the players on our list showed the sort of determination and passion that he does, not just for the club, but for the game itself, we wouldn't be in the position we are in at the moment.

He deserves another B&F, because to be so consistent in his position when the team isn't travelling so well, is a great effort.
Sometimes I wonder what it feels like for him, working so hard when most around him are lazy and don't care. If it was me, I'd punch some of them!

 

[The Shev]

What that says to me, is that it takes a lot more than talent to get far in football.
Robbo isn't the most talented player on our list, but he has a massive heart and he loves the club. He had a bad season last year, going from CHF back to a small forward position. To his credit, he fought his way back and improved his goal kicking.
If half the players on our list showed the sort of determination and passion that he does, not just for the club, but for the game itself, we wouldn't be in the position we are in at the moment.

He deserves another B&F, because to be so consistent in his position when the team isn't travelling so well, is a great effort.
Sometimes I wonder what it feels like for him, working so hard when most around him are lazy and don't care. If it was me, I'd punch some of them!

Yep it says a lot about our more talented players that ability can't get you everywhere, you need to have the determination and passion too. Robertson is finally getting the respect he deserves. He has always been seen as a bit of a show pony, but unless you watch him every week then you don't realise how hard he works and his spirit and love of the MFC. Off the field he does a great job in promoting the club too.

 

[Demon ADI]

Robbo is a very underrated player and has the maturity to captain this side in years to come, Moloney is back in gorm after he was a bit dow midway through the year and this was due to the amount of game time he spent, Johhno was flying when we were flying, he has had m good games when the dees have lost but he now has contracted a contagious disease that has swept through most of the players in the side, "no self-belief"

 

[Bartram_Class]

The most worrying thing is, if Robertson does get up and wins the club best and fairest, is that he will be the only bloke on our list that has won 2 Keith 'Bluey' Truscott medals. Why is this worrying? Well in all fairness, he is essentially a half forward flanker, the third tall forward, an exciting player who has struggled with consistancy up until recent years. He isn't a midfielder or ruckman who is always in the action, nor a full forward who usually win the matches and get on the highlight reel. He isn't the most talented bloke, not the biggest or the quickest or the fittest or the toughest. But if he does get up, then he will join Viney, Lyon and Stynes as the only recent MFC players to win 2 or more B&F's. He will surpass the likes of Neitz, White and Yze who have only won it once, and Bruce, Green and Johnstone who are yet to win the award. These 6 names above are the "leaders" and the best players in the team, yet none of them have been able to win 2 B&F's. If our top 6 can't do it, but a short-arsed half forward flanker can, then what does that say about our leadership group?

This is by no means a dig at Robbo, he is a great player who bleeds red and blue and gives his all every week. He deserves all the awards that come his way, but as I said, he shouldn't be the only player in our "talented" group that has won 2 B&F's.

True he'd be the only one with 2 but Yze has deserved about 3 and IMO Biz deserved it the year Robbo won his first. I'm not taking anything away from the year hes having, he's been superb, too bad the other 21 dont play the same way.

 

[melbournemartin]

robbos skill is underrated. i now rate his goalkicking ability above Greens and thats sayin something. he is very quick on the lead and a superb mark. ofcourse he has a big leap 2.

bruce green TJ aint done enough to win one in their careers except maybe this year for TJ