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Peter Daicos storms out of Copeland Trophy night

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Heard that it was when the waiter got to their table to serve dessert, and Nick got his second
 
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Many B&F awards focus on rewarding players who sacrifice their own personal stats/awards/recognition for the sake of the team. Or players who excel in the defensives elements of the game. Darcy Cameron was forever running defensively to save the Pies ....amongst ALL rucks he was #1 for intercept marks and #1 for intercept possessions.

As another example of this I'm bewildered Perryman can finish above the likes of Josh Daicos and Sidebottom....but he must be doing a lot on-field that the stats sheet doesn't pick-up. Sacrificial running, covering for Nick's man defensively, filling holes to stop outlets and so on....

So if Peter Daicos storms out because his son comes second, he has no appreciation of what other players sacrifice to help make Nick so good. They cover for his man. They tackle on his behalf. They dish him out handballs. They make him the #1 'hit to' player at clearance. They block his tagger to give him free space and so on.....

Nick Daicos is a great player, but his reputation is largely from media hyperbole. He's no better overall than Anderson, Rowell, Green, Butters, Callaghan, Serong and so on. They all have different skills, but this weird fascination with placing Nick above everyone else because the medddyyyyyya fawns over the Daicos name at ridiculous levels creates unrealistic expectations on what he 'deserves'.

The players MVP is a great example. He wins it, because it's voted on by a cohort who never watch a game. Rowel beats Nick in the Brownlow by 7 votes, beats him in the coaches votes, is rated higher and wins his teams B&F...despite heaps of competition from Anderson, Miller etc.... and Rowell doesn't finish top-5 in the players MVP. Because the meddddyyyyaaaa hype up Daicos to levels beyond reality.
 

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Not a great look and certainly not what you want from a club legend let alone a parent. Tom Morris who was present on the night reporting Daicos stormed out shortly after it was revealed Nick was runners up.
Did he storm out when Josh beat Nick a few years back?
 

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