CK wrote:brent-83 wrote:The Chump is here... wrote:Was down at the TAB at lunch time looking at what was on offer and is it just me or Mathew Pavlich @ $8.00 second in line to buddy @ $1.45?? to be the highest forward was too good to be true.
Buddy will get votes but Pav plays in the midfield and was prominant when Freo won a lot of games early.
That group should read Franklin $1.01 the rest write your own ticket.
Agreed. Pavlich will be lucky to poll eight votes. Buddy may poll that in the first half of the season.
Swan does look pretty reasonable odds at the $13 this year. His start was sound and the finish to the year very good. It's only a few weeks before the Arizona trip that he was quieter, but strongly suspect the umpires may do a "correction" of his votes this year. He ticks many of the boxes this year for a Medallist.
Fortunately, the men in white agreed. A deserving winner.
I had said, before he went to Gold Coast, that 2011 would reveal whether Ablett was a good player in a great side, or a great player in his own right. Have really admired the way he has gone about things this year, and a fantastic season rewarded by the umpires - that many votes in a bottom team, winning three matches, is remarkable.