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  • goswannies
    Senior Player
    • Sep 2007
    • 3052

    Gary Ayres Award/Medal

    The Gary Ayres medal will honour the best player across the finals series. Competing coaches will vote in the same 5-4-3-2-1 format as the home and away season to determine the winner, which will be announced on the Monday following the Grand Final.

    Does that mean a player in a team that finishes the home & away season 5-8 or a team that finishes 1-4 but loses in the first week of the finals but goes on to play in the grand final, is more likely to win the Ayres medal? As they will play more finals games and therefore have better opportunities to poll votes?
  • Markwebbos
    Veterans List
    • Jul 2016
    • 7186

    #2
    I thought the same thing, it favours players who play all 4 weeks

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    • 0918330512
      Senior Player
      • Sep 2011
      • 1654

      #3
      SYDNEY SWANS v GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY
      10 Jeremy Cameron (GWS)
      7 Stephen Coniglio (GWS)
      7 Lachie Whitfield (GWS)
      2 Dan Hannebery (Syd)
      2 Devon Smith (GWS)
      1 Heath Grundy (Syd)
      1 Josh Kennedy (Syd)

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      • goswannies
        Senior Player
        • Sep 2007
        • 3052

        #4
        Originally posted by Markwebbos
        I thought the same thing, it favours players who play all 4 weeks
        Looking at the results so far, it seems a solid win gets a bunch of high end votes, & deprives the losing team of votes - having said that any team who has three games to get to a grand final will have a couple of wins minimum.

        It's if a 5th-8th team makes the granny - they had to have 3 wins to get there, so a good chance of votes

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        • Maltopia
          Senior Player
          • Apr 2016
          • 1556

          #5
          Originally posted by 09183305
          SYDNEY SWANS v GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY
          10 Jeremy Cameron (GWS)
          7 Stephen Coniglio (GWS)
          7 Lachie Whitfield (GWS)
          2 Dan Hannebery (Syd)
          2 Devon Smith (GWS)
          1 Heath Grundy (Syd)
          1 Josh Kennedy (Syd)
          Should be:

          Johnson 10
          Mumford 8
          Umpires the rest for no calls on brutal acts, and the Heeney mark

          Their dastardly acts took away any chance of a win.

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          • goswannies
            Senior Player
            • Sep 2007
            • 3052

            #6
            Heeney hits the lead with one match to go!

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            • Faunac8
              Senior Player
              • Mar 2014
              • 1548

              #7
              15 Isaac Heeney (SYD)
              12 Liam Picken (WB)
              12 Joel Selwood (GEEL)
              11 Josh Kennedy (SYD)
              10 Eddie Betts (ADEL)
              10 Jeremy Cameron (GWS)
              10 Luke Dahlhaus (WB)
              10 Caleb Daniel (WB)
              10 Clay Smith (WB)
              9 Dane Rampe (SYD)

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              • GongSwan
                Senior Player
                • Jan 2009
                • 1362

                #8
                If JPK wins this award we are premiers
                You can't argue with a sick mind - Joe Walsh

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                • Mountain Man
                  Regular in the Side
                  • Feb 2008
                  • 910

                  #9
                  Could one of you RWO knowledge experts inform us ignoramuses why the medal is named for Gary Ayres, please

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                  • barry
                    Veterans List
                    • Jan 2003
                    • 8499

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Mountain Man
                    Could one of you RWO knowledge experts inform us ignoramuses why the medal is named for Gary Ayres, please
                    I know. Should be called the clarke keating award.
                    He only played finals !

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                    • mcs
                      Travelling Swannie!!
                      • Jul 2007
                      • 8177

                      #11
                      Originally posted by GongSwan
                      If JPK wins this award we are premiers
                      Completely agree.
                      "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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                      • goswannies
                        Senior Player
                        • Sep 2007
                        • 3052

                        #12
                        Originally posted by barry
                        I know. Should be called the clarke keating award.
                        He only played finals !
                        Keating played 139 games of AFL football. He may have only played well in finals, but he played plenty of non-finals games.

                        Bill James (Richmond) his only career senior game was the 1920 Grand Final. Now there's a finals specialist!

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                        • Swansongster
                          Senior Player
                          • Sep 2008
                          • 1264

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Mountain Man
                          Could one of you RWO knowledge experts inform us ignoramuses why the medal is named for Gary Ayres, please
                          Gary Ayres is perhaps best remembered for his failures as a coach by younger fans (although he has subsequently had good success at Port Melbourne in the VFL). Most notably unceremoniously losing his jobs at Geelong and Adelaide.

                          Only remembering that is a bit unfair really because he was a great player who had tremendous success in finals series. I don't recall all of the details so I point you to Wikipedia.

                          "Beginning his football career with Hawthorn in 1978, he had an illustrious career spanning from 1978?1993, playing 269 games and booting 70 goals.

                          He was part of a total of 5 premiership teams ? 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, and 1991. He won the Norm Smith Medal twice, adjudged best on ground in 1986 and 1988 and is one of only three players in the history of the AFL to do so.

                          Ayres captained Victoria against Tasmania in the 1989 State of Origin contest.

                          He captained the Hawks in his final two years from 1992?1993."

                          More: Gary Ayres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

                          Disclaimer: I bump into him on (Ahem!) the odd occasion at my local bottle shop (which he owns). He's a good bloke who still loves his footy and he has great respect for what the current administration and playing roster have achieved at the Swans.

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                          • goswannies
                            Senior Player
                            • Sep 2007
                            • 3052

                            #14
                            Congrats to JPK! Inaugural Gary Ayres medalist!! Very well deserved ????
                            Last edited by goswannies; 3 October 2016, 08:18 PM.

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                            • dejavoodoo44
                              Veterans List
                              • Apr 2015
                              • 8727

                              #15
                              Originally posted by goswannies
                              Congrats to JPK! Inaugural Gary Ayres medalist!! Very well deserved ??
                              Yes, very well deserved. He seems to be very good all year and even better in finals. And it's probably no coincidence, that we've played in finals in every year since his arrival in 2010.

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