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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: mightytiges on September 08, 2004, 07:43:22 PM
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Courtesy of WP at the B&F :thumbsup
Brent Hartigan has just been named Best First Year Player :)
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Jack Dyer Medallist: Joel Bowden
2nd Johnson
3rd Brown
4th Richo
5th Hyde
Best Clubman - Chris Hyde
Thanks to WP :thumbsup
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Congrats to Joel. Well deserved and a great effort lifting his game after the kick up the backside he got when sent back to Coburg earlier in the year.
The top 4 were predictable. Hyde coming 5th surprised me. I'd reckon he's now safe to be at Tigerland next year. Well done Chris :).
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Bowden is Tigers B&F
10:00:32 PM Wed 8 September, 2004
Paul Gough
Sportal
The remarkable resurrection of the AFL career of Joel Bowden has culminated in the Richmond star taking out his first Tigers' best and fairest on Wednesday night.
Bowden won the 2004 Jack Dyer Medal with 324 votes from Kane Johnson on 279 votes - with the former Adelaide star finishing runner-up for the second successive year - while boom recruit Nathan Brown was third on 273 votes and spearhead Matthew Richardson fourth with 215 votes.
And in a sign of better things to come for this year's wooden spooners, the next three finishers were all youngsters with Chris Hyde fifth on 166 votes, Andrew Krakouer sixth with 145 votes and Brent Hartigan capping an outstanding debut season by finishing seventh with 111 votes.
Hartigan also won the Tigers' best first year player award.
But the night was a triumph for Bowden, who has often endured a love/hate relationship with the supporters of a club where his father Michael played in the 1969 premiership side.
After a limited pre-season due to injury Bowden began the season by playing his 150th game in the round one opener against Collingwood but struggled.
And when he was dropped after the disastrous round five loss to Adelaide at Telstra Dome - ending a streak of 136 consecutive matches dating back to round five, 1998 - it appeared the 26-year-old's career was at the crossroads.
But Bowden not only served his penance with Coburg in the VFL but he came back a totally different player.
Forced to play at centre-half-back, despite his lack of height and weight for the position - Bowden had a staggering 42 possessions and 11 marks against top-placed Port Adelaide at AAMI Stadium just three weeks later.
He also showed he could match it against even the AFL's biggest centre-half-forwards such as Brisbane's Jonathan Brown while also continuing to win plenty of the ball and set up Richmond attacks out of defence.
In his last 14 games of the season Bowden only twice failed to collect at least 20 possessions and his dominance of the second half of the season was reflected in the counting for the Jack Dyer Medal.
After a blistering start to the season Nathan Brown had a huge lead over Bowden early on in the count but Brown only polled three votes after round 14 as he battled injury and dwindling form.
In contrast Bowden barely polled a vote in the first seven rounds but from round eight onwards he only failed to poll votes in two games and the revival of his football career was complete when he was given a standing ovation upon being announced the winner of the 2004 Jack Dyer Medal.
http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=170243
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Pretty much sums up our year having a midfielder come 5th in the B&F by getting 12 possessions per game.
Well done to all the award winners.
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This has been an outstanding effort on Joel's behalf. He really did have a fantastic season and hopefully is just the platform that he can build on. Hopefully under Terry Wallace he will grow into the true leader and champion of the club that he has for so long promised to be.
Well done Joel. :thumbsup
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After hearing Joel's accecptance speech last night - his leadership qualities shone through.
Another bloke in the mix for captain next season perhaps :bow :thumbsup
PS: A couple of pics to follow later
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:cheers Well Done Joel Bowden on a great year :thumbsup
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Well Done Joel Bowden on a great year :cheers :thumbsup
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Top ten place getters, from the Age:
Joel Bowden 324
Kane Johnson 279
Nathan Brown 273
Matthew Richardson 215
Chris Hyde 166
Andrew Krakouer 145
Brent Hartigan 111
Brad Ottens 95
Ray Hall 78
Chris Newman 76
Well done to Joel Bowden :thumbsup and also to Chris Hyde :thumbsup and special mention to Brent Hartigan for a seventh placing in his first year. :thumbsup
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1 Joel Bowden, 324 votes
2 Kane Johnson, 279 votes
3 Nathan Brown, 273 votes
4 Matthew Richardson, 215 votes
5 Chris Hyde, 166 votes
6 Andrew Krakouer, 145
7 Brent Hartigan, 111
8 Brad Ottens, 95
9 Ray Hall, 78
10 Chris Newman, 76
11 Wayne Campbell, 75
12 Greg Tivendale, 72
13 Tim Fleming, 58
14 Ty Zantuck, 56
15 Aaron Fiora, 48
eq.16 David Rodan, 42
eq. 16 Daniel Jackson, 42
18 Greg Stafford, 41
19 Kayne Pettifer, 39
20 Andrew Kellaway, 36
21 Jay Schulz, 28
22 Darren Gaspar, 26
23 Luke Weller, 25
24 Mark Chaffey, 21
eq. 25 Tom Roach, 12
eq. 25 Kelvin Moore, 12
27 Mark Coughlan, 10
http://richmondfc.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=170399
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Interesting to note that none of the delisted players scored a vote.
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I'd like to know which game(s) Gaspar tore apart to get 26 votes.
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Hawks first time I think,at Telstra.
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10 is the minimum votes on the list. Wonder if there were some lower numbers which are just not mentioned.
Rory Hilton?
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:lol is that the game he he was rebouding everything and piling up the stats? 3 disposals.
S'pose it was one of his better efforts for the year....
Most likely got votes in the game against Geelong. Not that he deserved them. But it must have stood out as the game where he looked up to AFL standard (as opposed to the others).
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I'd like to know which game(s) Gaspar tore apart to get 26 votes.
Probably the same week i gave him votes on here.
Good judges at the club ;)
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Hartigan doesnt look right in a suit.