FootyGuy13
That Guy in the Back Corner
- Feb 21, 2018
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It's the 2024 edition of the Melbourne Board's MVP main thread; the Nick "426" Smith Memorial Trophy. If we thought that 2022 was disappointing, 2023 managed to out do it in SPADES (both here AND on-field). Then we thought that 2023 was disappointing, and we had to watch as a slow news summer turned into daily updates to see what Clayton Oliver was having for breakfast. That was before the whole Joel Smith drug drama started to kick-off. Legit had to wait for the pre-season to show up for footy journalists to remember other teams existed.
Will this affect Oliver's end-of-season 426 position after so many years of finishing Top 3? Maybe, and at the moment I'd say that Petracca already has one hand on the 426 trophy. Though, based on last year's results, I reckon Rivers has a good chance of creating an upset this year. Last year's upset winner Viney is experience some of the best footy form he's ever seen and I hope it continues. Both him and May are our brick walls and I wonder how many batterings they have left before the holes appear. It'll also be interesting to see if Gawn continues his downward spiral now that he's the solo ruck again, not to mention trying to predict where these players replacements are gonna come from.
Now, after last year's mixed bag of a 426 season, I've decided to re-work the rules after a trend emerged. I was finding that it was quite the annoying trend, and hopefully this change will stop it from happening. So here's is the rules and framework for voting for each round.
"Please give out 12 votes to all of the best players in this game in your opinion in any fashion you like. Maximum 12. Minimum 12. You can award a negative set (won't be counted) in addition to a positive set if you want to vent. You have 3 days to vote."
Honour Roll (Bluey Truscott placings)
2023 - Jack Viney (2nd)
2022 - Clayton Oliver (1st)
2021 - Christian Petracca (2nd)
2020 - Christian Petracca (1st)
2019 - Max Gawn (=1st)
2018 - Max Gawn (1st)
2017 - Clayton Oliver (1st)
2016 - Max Gawn (3rd)
2015 - Tom McDonald (3rd)
2014 - Nathan Jones (1st)
2013 - Nathan Jones (1st)
2012 - Nathan Jones (1st)
2011 - Jack Trengove (5th)
2010 - Brad Green (1st)
2009 - Aaron Davey (1st)
2008 - Brad Green (3rd)*
2007 - Nathan Jones (2nd)
2006 - Brock McLean (3rd)
2005 - Brent Moloney (3rd)
2004 - Adem Yze (3rd)
2003 - Abandoned after Round 3
2002 - Adem Yze (6th)
2001 - Started in Round 10
Will this affect Oliver's end-of-season 426 position after so many years of finishing Top 3? Maybe, and at the moment I'd say that Petracca already has one hand on the 426 trophy. Though, based on last year's results, I reckon Rivers has a good chance of creating an upset this year. Last year's upset winner Viney is experience some of the best footy form he's ever seen and I hope it continues. Both him and May are our brick walls and I wonder how many batterings they have left before the holes appear. It'll also be interesting to see if Gawn continues his downward spiral now that he's the solo ruck again, not to mention trying to predict where these players replacements are gonna come from.
Now, after last year's mixed bag of a 426 season, I've decided to re-work the rules after a trend emerged. I was finding that it was quite the annoying trend, and hopefully this change will stop it from happening. So here's is the rules and framework for voting for each round.
"Please give out 12 votes to all of the best players in this game in your opinion in any fashion you like. Maximum 12. Minimum 12. You can award a negative set (won't be counted) in addition to a positive set if you want to vent. You have 3 days to vote."
Honour Roll (Bluey Truscott placings)
2023 - Jack Viney (2nd)
2022 - Clayton Oliver (1st)
2021 - Christian Petracca (2nd)
2020 - Christian Petracca (1st)
2019 - Max Gawn (=1st)
2018 - Max Gawn (1st)
2017 - Clayton Oliver (1st)
2016 - Max Gawn (3rd)
2015 - Tom McDonald (3rd)
2014 - Nathan Jones (1st)
2013 - Nathan Jones (1st)
2012 - Nathan Jones (1st)
2011 - Jack Trengove (5th)
2010 - Brad Green (1st)
2009 - Aaron Davey (1st)
2008 - Brad Green (3rd)*
2007 - Nathan Jones (2nd)
2006 - Brock McLean (3rd)
2005 - Brent Moloney (3rd)
2004 - Adem Yze (3rd)
2003 - Abandoned after Round 3
2002 - Adem Yze (6th)
2001 - Started in Round 10
