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Does your club offer "The Mug" as a best player award at presentations on a Saturday night?

What do you use as "The Mug"?

Any ideas / thoughts about "The Mug" would be great!

Was/am a massive fan of the Mug, however as many clubs have become part of the "Good Sports" franchise it is a disappearing thing in local footy

Usually a pweuter mug so as to last droppage etc. All other players at the club must pay for winners drinks for the night 1 per person

At Marion we have a pewter mug for the B grade & A grade.
Does not necessarily have to be the best on ground but basically whoever recieves the award at the coaches discretion and sometimes it goes to the coach - which is fair enough.
They can then tap anyone on the shoulder from the team and have it re-filled for free for the night - 1 per player.

Good Sports means there is no skulling of the beer in front of everyone but more for a cheap night having some well earnt frothies.

Great idea I reckon as long as you make sure it does not get spiked or super beers done and spoil someones night as well.

I was thinking along the lines of a pewter mug aswell..

Browny25 wrote:I was thinking along the lines of a pewter mug aswell..

We did 1 at a previous club where BOG got the mug and his name was engraved on it. At the end of the year the person with their named engraved the most was awarded the mug to keep.

MR JUICY wrote:At Marion we have a pewter mug for the B grade & A grade.
Does not necessarily have to be the best on ground but basically whoever recieves the award at the coaches discretion and sometimes it goes to the coach - which is fair enough.
They can then tap anyone on the shoulder from the team and have it re-filled for free for the night - 1 per player.

Good Sports means there is no skulling of the beer in front of everyone but more for a cheap night having some well earnt frothies.

Great idea I reckon as long as you make sure it does not get spiked or super beers done and spoil someones night as well.

yep, exactly the same at the Valley.

We have a pewter mug which is filled with beer at the presentation and the person who receives it, has to skull it, or else he doesn't get it. Once he has skulled it, he gets free piss all night until the club closes.

Bum Crack wrote:We have a pewter mug which is filled with beer at the presentation and the person who receives it, has to skull it, or else he doesn't get it. Once he has skulled it, he gets free piss all night until the club closes.

Responsible drinking!!!

Farbs wrote:

MR JUICY wrote:At Marion we have a pewter mug for the B grade & A grade.
Does not necessarily have to be the best on ground but basically whoever recieves the award at the coaches discretion and sometimes it goes to the coach - which is fair enough.
They can then tap anyone on the shoulder from the team and have it re-filled for free for the night - 1 per player.

Good Sports means there is no skulling of the beer in front of everyone but more for a cheap night having some well earnt frothies.

Great idea I reckon as long as you make sure it does not get spiked or super beers done and spoil someones night as well.

yep, exactly the same at the Valley.

we used to have exactly the same rules, but if you tapped a person on the shoulder a second time, you had to buy him a drink!

we also didnt just do BOG's. i can remember a bloke got it once for hitting the post from the goal square, but later in the game snagged one from an impossible angle! and a whole heap of other random reasons!

Browny25 wrote:

Bum Crack wrote:We have a pewter mug which is filled with beer at the presentation and the person who receives it, has to skull it, or else he doesn't get it. Once he has skulled it, he gets free piss all night until the club closes.

Responsible drinking!!!

We aren't a croquet club mate.

north haven have the mug, one of the best ideas going around, dont know how much responsible drinking was going on specially when the likes of matt hood got it, the aim is to hit up the tight a55's first and the blokes that dont hang around the club then save all the blokes who are the last to leave of a saturday nght till last, but love the idea of it

Yeah i remember the mug well at North Haven. Couldnt get it for my first 3 senior years coz i was underage...then in my last year there I got it and couldnt remember the night. I regretted tapping a certain AB on the back for a drink coz it turned out he thought a drink consisting of every spirit behind the bar was a good way to spend about $30...

piccachu wrote:north haven have the mug, one of the best ideas going around, dont know how much responsible drinking was going on specially when the likes of matt hood got it, the aim is to hit up the tight a55's first and the blokes that dont hang around the club then save all the blokes who are the last to leave of a saturday nght till last, but love the idea of it

There not 2 words i hear around the club often

We also do it for cricket aswell. All 6 grades, A's to F's have a mug to each to give to the best player or to a player that did somtehing special that game.

We had the mug and then our captain got smashed and lost it in some bushes and it hasn't been seen since.
Since then the mug has rarely come out at our footy club, but I'm hoping to revive it this year.

The Dark Knight wrote:

piccachu wrote:north haven have the mug, one of the best ideas going around, dont know how much responsible drinking was going on specially when the likes of matt hood got it, the aim is to hit up the tight a55's first and the blokes that dont hang around the club then save all the blokes who are the last to leave of a saturday nght till last, but love the idea of it

There not 2 words i hear around the club often

We also do it for cricket aswell. All 6 grades, A's to F's have a mug to each to give to the best player or to a player that did somtehing special that game.

One of the best awards you can have is "The Mug" at North Haven it is awarded to Best in the C and B Grades and 3rd Best in the A Grade. Also if you have played a milestone game of 100, 200 games etc the mug is yours. This has been a tradition at the club since as long as I can remeber, barring a year or two it was banned.

We usually start with 3 new or newish pewter mugs and who ever wins it is responsible for it for the next week and by the end of the year it always comes back worse for wear with plenty dents, handle missing etc.. Another good tradition is the person who wins the mug engraves their name on it.

It always good when a new bloke to the club wins it as all the guys that have been on the receiving end of "The Mug" go out of their way to get them as smashed as possible, always ends up with a funny story.

We've got the same sort of thing, not necessarily the best player, but someone who does something hilarious, very stupid or if someone plays a milestone.

Pag wrote:We've got the same sort of thing, not necessarily the best player, but someone who does something hilarious, very stupid or if someone plays a milestone.

we do that then Browny would win it every week