2009 Presentation Night
Benny Poole receives the 2009 Senior B & F Award from Coach Bugs Barry…pardon the strobing ..it gets worse !!
The 2009 Presentation night held on the September 27th at the Dr Collopy Pavilion, saw a large crowd of members and supporters gathered to witness the awarding of trophies to our Senior and Reserve sides in the 50th anniversary of our club. The highlite of the evening were the vote counts of the Senior and Reserve Best and Fairest Awards, which though not going down to the wire, did not disappoint those in attendance as Andrew Taylor won his 3rd Reserve Award in 4 years ( runner up in the other) and Benny Poole won his first Senior Award in his comeback year after 2 years in the wilderness after suffering 2 fractured ankles in a holiday mishap.
SENIOR AWARDS
Benny Poole with his Best and Fairest Award…………….Brad Ulms with his Runner up Trophy
Benny Poole started his football career with our Juniors and played in the 2003 Under 18 side that lost to Mt Eliza by 3 pts. He played his first senior game in 2004 becoming a permanent selection and being selected in our loosing semi final team. Picked up by Frankston Dolphins in 2005 he made his senior debut in 2006 before his accident that year prevented him playing in 2007/08.
Having his first preseason and kick at the start of this year it has been a long,hard and weary road for Benny to get back in to the game he loves but he finally made it this year ..with a bang !!
Second at the polls and a very worthy second, after a great first half of the season were he carried the big man banner on his own was ex Frankston Dolphin Brad Ulms who relished the big role he took on as our” main man to go to”, after the loss of Manson,Mouse and others.
The Vote count results for the top 10 were;
Poole..109
Ulms..77
Roberts..72
Stewart..68
Lester..67
Barry..66
Kiely..62
Waddell..56
Anderson..42
Hackett..39
Hoare..36
Tellis..34
Nankervis..32
Douglas..31
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Lachlan Wallace receives his Award for best 1st Year Player……and Steve Roberts gets his for Most Improved
Leigh Stewart was a very worthy winner of the Most Determined Player …..while Ben Hackett took out the Goal Kicking with 5o for the season
Paul Wintle won the Coaches Award…hmm!! .. whilst Ducky Waddell had to take out the Best Player in Finals Trophy after great displays against Mt Eliza, Seaford and Eady/Asp
Benny Tellis gets his award for getting to his 150th Game this season, Rnd 10, while Ducky Waddell got his for his 100 game landmark in Rnd 17 while Daniel Anderson, 100 games,Rnd 16, Adrian McIntrye,100 games, Rnd 8 and Daniel Strickland 100 Reserve Games Rnd 17, also got awards.
RESERVES
Andrew Taylor with the Mick Leo and Martin Collopy Trophies …a good evenings work !!
Andrew Taylor won his 3rd Reserve Best and Fairest in the space of 4 years as well as being runner up in the other year and in so doing becomes only the second player to have achieved this feat with just Midge Rossetto with 4 wins ahead of him. Andrew played his first senior game in 2005 playing in that years grand final, and doubling up to play in the loosing 2007 Reserve Grand final.
A tenacious rover with great skills he has to be one of the very best players to have graced our reserve grade…Runner up to the fabulous Tails was David Bodley in his first senior year up from the Under 18s which saw him as CHB in the loosing 2007 Grand Final and CHF in the 2008 Premiership side.
The Vote Result was:
Taylor..117
Bodley..96
Nankervis..76
Hutchinson..61
Grove..57
Chaplin..47
Wintle..47
Strickland..39
Coghlan..36
Roberton..31
Andrew Taylor with his Best & Fairest Award …………………with David Bodley and his Runner up Trophy.
Dylan Bosward with his Most Determined Award ….and Jessie Coghlan, Most Improved
Daniel McNamara with his Best in Finals Trophy ……………………….and Mark Nankervis, Most Consistant
Paul Wintle in the spotlite again this time taking out the Reserve Best First Year player Trophy……….whilst Michael Chaplin took out the Goalkicking Award for the 2nd year in a row with 55 goals
Chris Carey was the very worthy recipient of the clubs most prestigious award of Life Member for 2009.
David Leary our club Secretary was awarded the Best Clubman Award for 2009 for services above the call of duty while Michael Clancy got a special presentation for service to the club in 2009 along with John Roberton, Pat Strickland and David Lee
Ending the nights celebrations, was a farewell to club stalwarts who were retiring in Dale Carey, Ben Davies and Danny LaFontaine….you will all be missed !!
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