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almost 13 years ago

Forgive and delete if there is already a thread on these lines....

This is a really difficult one to pick this year

There's prob a huge list for who shouldn't get it, but who should get it??

I can't think of anyone who has been consistently good, or even consistently reliable.

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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almost 13 years ago

Jimmy downey


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almost 13 years ago

Bertos I suppose springs to mind? 

But probably brockie for scoring so many goals and pushing golden boot all season with a bottom placed club. 


Allegedly

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almost 13 years ago

when does the fan vote open?

There's only one player than you can realistically pick, should be a landslide.

The artist formerly known as Homer Simpson

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almost 13 years ago

Brockie by default.

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almost 13 years ago

Easy choice. May even be another whitewash of all the awards, similar to what happened last season. 


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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almost 13 years ago

Although Ifill with 7 assists in a bad year isn't too shabby.

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almost 13 years ago

Brockie by a mile.

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almost 13 years ago

Interesting to see all the Brockie love, considering how much knitting people did over him this season. Did he even win a Man of the Match poll?

Brockie had a great season in terms of goals, but my player of the season would be Leo. He has been very consistent all season despite playing in an unfamiliar role.

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almost 13 years ago

i really despised brockie for most of the seazson. Just had no work rate until greeny took over.
Whether that be because he was part of a front 2, or if Greeny just made him run more.

Yeah pretty hard to pick someone. Guess that sort of sums up our season though. 


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almost 13 years ago

brockie's only saving grace was the 16 goals, shure that looks brilliant when the team only scored 31, but having scored 16 he only gained 2 or three assists, and 2 of those were in one game. To me that speaks more of the type of player he is - a great goal scorer, but nothing else. Leo on the other hand has shown he's mre than capable of playing at RB and then when Greenie put him back at RM he has looked rejuvinated.

Queenslander 3x a year.

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almost 13 years ago

Really difficult choice this one. Agree it probably has to be Brockie or Leo. Maybe Manny as an outsider? He hasn't been in his best form, but has still probably been one of our more consistent performers other than a few shockers? But yeah, I'd probably go with Brockie in the end, particularly given his improvement in workrate towards the end of the season.

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almost 13 years ago

hlmphil wrote:

Really difficult choice this one. Agree it probably has to be Brockie or Leo. Maybe Manny as an outsider? He hasn't been in his best form, but has still probably been one of our more consistent performers other than a few shockers? But yeah, I'd probably go with Brockie in the end, particularly given his improvement in workrate towards the end of the season.


Manny for me  ruled himself out this year with his stupid elbow against Brisbane. His three match ban game at a terrible time for us and saw us slide right out of contention imo. His overall form has not been great this year on top of that in comparison to past years.
It is a really difficult choice but for me, simply has to be Brockie. Yes he has shortcomings and through various parts of the season his low workrate was frustrating, but think of the train wreck season would have been without his Goals. That is the one thing that sticks out for me this year, so him it is.
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almost 13 years ago

Interesting to see all the Brockie love, considering how much knitting people did over him this season. Did he even win a Man of the Match poll?

So much this. He could not do a thing right for 90% of the season and now people are talking about him as player of the season?
I have no issue with Bertos or Brockie winning this

Grumpy old bastard alert

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almost 13 years ago

Interesting to see all the Brockie love, considering how much knitting people did over him this season. Did he even win a Man of the Match poll?

Brockie had a great season in terms of goals, but my player of the season would be Leo. He has been very consistent all season despite playing in an unfamiliar role.

 

i'll try go back and check the MOM awards tonight.

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almost 13 years ago

Jeff Vader wrote:

Interesting to see all the Brockie love, considering how much knitting people did over him this season. Did he even win a Man of the Match poll?

So much this. He could not do a thing right for 90% of the season and now people are talking about him as player of the season?
I have no issue with Bertos or Brockie winning this
I wasn't one of the people criticising him, but I think I voted for him in only one or two polls. Other players had good games here and there, but weren't consistent across the whole season. Brockie was consistently influential on the pitch (it's hard to not be influential when you score more goals than the rest of the team combined), even if he was not the best player on the field on any specific game, which is why he's my choice of POTY.

Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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almost 13 years ago

Bertos definantly for me. Consistantly hard working, didnt do that much wrong and changed the team moving into midfield

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almost 13 years ago

patrick478 wrote:

Jeff Vader wrote:

Interesting to see all the Brockie love, considering how much knitting people did over him this season. Did he even win a Man of the Match poll?

So much this. He could not do a thing right for 90% of the season and now people are talking about him as player of the season?
I have no issue with Bertos or Brockie winning this
I wasn't one of the people criticising him, but I think I voted for him in only one or two polls. Other players had good games here and there, but weren't consistent across the whole season. Brockie was consistently influential on the pitch (it's hard to not be influential when you score more goals than the rest of the team combined), even if he was not the best player on the field on any specific game, which is why he's my choice of POTY.
This was not aimed at you Patrick but more a general comment.

There is no doubt there are times he drifted right out of the game. Its also telling how much more buzz he had about him after Ricki left. If one were to speculate...

Grumpy old bastard alert

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almost 13 years ago

Jeff Vader wrote:

patrick478 wrote:

Jeff Vader wrote:

Interesting to see all the Brockie love, considering how much knitting people did over him this season. Did he even win a Man of the Match poll?

So much this. He could not do a thing right for 90% of the season and now people are talking about him as player of the season?
I have no issue with Bertos or Brockie winning this
I wasn't one of the people criticising him, but I think I voted for him in only one or two polls. Other players had good games here and there, but weren't consistent across the whole season. Brockie was consistently influential on the pitch (it's hard to not be influential when you score more goals than the rest of the team combined), even if he was not the best player on the field on any specific game, which is why he's my choice of POTY.
This was not aimed at you Patrick but more a general comment.
Yeah I know, just wanted to provide some insight as to why some of us think he was the player of the season. 

Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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almost 13 years ago

Tom biss


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almost 13 years ago

tripvincent wrote:

Tom biss


Napier Phoenix will like this.

Three for me, and two for them.

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almost 13 years ago
Leo

Auckland will rise once more

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almost 13 years ago


i dont know if i can answer this it's so hard

 

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almost 13 years ago

 I would have thought that the player of the year would have been somebody that week in week out was above average.

Brockie does not fall into that category.

If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid

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almost 13 years ago

Leggy wrote:

 I would have thought that the player of the year would have been somebody that week in week out was above average.

Brockie does not fall into that category.


Who does then?

Three for me, and two for them.

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almost 13 years ago · edited almost 13 years ago · History

I'm in the Bertos camp as well. Brockie scored a lot of goals but went missing far too often. Leo was played out of position most of the season but was one of our best week-in-week-out. 


Edit: and no one else came close...

People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people.

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almost 13 years ago

Buffon II wrote:

Leggy wrote:

 I would have thought that the player of the year would have been somebody that week in week out was above average.

Brockie does not fall into that category.


Who does then?


Have to think about that as most were not that flash.

If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid

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almost 13 years ago

I've just gone through and tallied up the votes from the MOM polls on here. The result is ... interesting. See if you can guess who won.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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almost 13 years ago

Bertos? Lochhead?

Three for me, and two for them.

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almost 13 years ago

Paston win the votes

Grumpy old bastard alert

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almost 13 years ago

Bertos was not our best player this season.


Brockie was.

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almost 13 years ago

How much of the Bertos vote is going his way for the surprise factor? He'd probably be my pick for player of the year off the top of my head, but how many of us are just saying that because we expected his move to RB to be a total trainwreck?

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almost 13 years ago · edited almost 13 years ago · History

Lol Paston. No.



Brocky for me, not even a hard decision to make. Nobody was outstanding, but he was the most polished turd of the bunch. He wins by default pretty much

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almost 13 years ago

Spoiler alert: the Fever didn't choose Brockie nor Bertos as the winner from the MoM awards. Brockie actually came 11th in the votes.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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almost 13 years ago

Fenton? He was getting a lot of love early in the season... Or failing that, Ifill or Stein.

P.S. Trying to guess here, not giving my opinion.

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almost 13 years ago

not bertos or brockie, Stein scored a fair few votes, manny? god they all played so poorly/inconsitantly it's hard to remember any good performances.

Queenslander 3x a year.

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almost 13 years ago · edited almost 13 years ago · History

Stein or Tyler Boyd ?, especially with his good start to the season with a lot more people voting in the early stages.

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