Gravel wrote:1980 - Tredrea won the 2004 coaches player of the year award - most would respect their collective opinion ? He was also named CHF in the All Australian team and vice captain. J Brown had/has the biggest impact on individual games, but Tredrea was the more consistent as evidenced by the above awards.
Gravel I'll concede that is a fair rap in terms of being one of the best players in the comp for 2004.
However given the diversity of awards in 2004 and as you say the individual brilliance of Brown in certain games not to mention Judd winning the Brownlow, I'll still stand by my calim that Tredrea has never been the best player in the AFL, great one yes in 2004 but never the best.
FWIW his peers (the 640 AFL listed players) thought Nick Reiweldt was the outstanding player of 2004 AFLPA player of the year
Let that be a lesson to you Port, no one beats the Bays five times in a row in a GF and gets away with it!!!