SA Footy

Marc Murphy won the AFL Coaches Association champion player of the year award with 94 votes

Chris Judd finished on 90.

Matthew Boyd & Sam Mitchell joint third with 87.

Dane Swan, Gary Ablett on 80 votes.

Scott Pendlebury 79.

John Worsfold named coach of the year.

Tom Hafey, became the third recipient of the "coaching legend" award

Fremantle's Nathan Fyfe as the best young player in his first two years

Aassistant coach of the year, North Melbourne's Darren Crocker

Lifetime achievement award, Collingwood's Geoff Walsh and Port Adelaide's Russell Ebert

Support staff leadership award, Melbourne's Arthur Wilkinson.

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Well done Murphy greatly deserved after an awesome year!!!

yep great year should win our B&F aswell....

I'm interested in how the Assistant Coach and Support Staff Leadership awards are nominated and selected. I wouldn't have thought other club's coaches would have much visibility of the work others are doing in support roles? except maybe an Assistant Coach who heads up a defense or midfield etc?

With all these different awards for the best players and what not, which award really indicates the leagues best player??

for me the Brownlow is far to over hyped and think this award is far more on the mark, not so much of a gap between 1 and 5.

No way Swan was ten votes better than Ablett and Judd in the Brownlow count.

Totally agree. All 3 awards have their own merit and should not be changed

howzat wrote:yep great year should win our B&F aswell....

That's not in Judd's contract is it? Well done to Murphy, best player at Carlton.