Ranking the Rising Star Contenders for the 2024 season

[chef]

2 in a row. Nice.

[bornadog]

2 in a row. Nice.

haven't had that for awhile and Sanders primed for one

[bulldogtragic]

Have we ever had back to back nominations?

[my plums]

Sanders to stuff the stat sheet on Friday night and make it three on the trot.

[angelopetraglia]

Year 2001

Round 15 D Giansiracusa
Round 16 R Murphy

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Rising Star Nominations

2024 Gallagher, Darcy
2023
2022 Marra
2021 Weightman
2020
2019 Bazlenka
2018 Richards, Naughton
2017
2016 Daniel, Dunkley
2015 Honeychurch, Boyd
2014 Bont, Hrovat, Stringer
2013 Macrae, Talia
2012 Wallis
2011 Dollhouse, Jones
2010 Grant
2009 Ward
2008 Hill
2007 Higgins, Williams
2006
2005 Minson, Griffen
2004 Cross, Cooney
2003
2002 Hargrave, McMahaon
2001 Penny, Gia, Murphy
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996 Darcy
1995 Johnson, Hargraves
1994 Southern
1993 West, Grgic, Nicholson

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Some takeouts

-41 Bulldog players have been nominated for a Rising Star
-We have had nine years without a nomination in 32 seasons
-It looks like Plough was not fond of playing young talent!!!!!!
-The most nominations we have ever had in a season is three (1993, 2001, 2002, 2014)

[angelopetraglia]

How many Rising Stars were busts? Obivously open to interpretation.

I have Grgic (borderline), Nicholson, Penny, Talia, Hrovat, Honeychurch. That is six of 41. So decent odds if you get a nomination you have some type of career.

[bulldogtragic]

How many FS Rising Star nominees?

Small club me thinks.

[angelopetraglia]

Swamp

Sam Darcy is the first Rising Star nominee whose father was also a Rising Star nominee

1996 R03 - Luke
2024 R04 - Sam

[bornadog]

From Jon Ralph

AFL has just confirmed under revised rules since McKernan in 1994 the Rising Star judges now only vote for eligible players. So players like Darcy and by this afternoon Reid "who have been found guilty of a reportable offence shall be ineligible and shall not receive votes".

[bulldogtragic]

From Jon Ralph

AFL has just confirmed under revised rules since McKernan in 1994 the Rising Star judges now only vote for eligible players. So players like Darcy and by this afternoon Reid "who have been found guilty of a reportable offence shall be ineligible and shall not receive votes".

Gags come on down…

[Flamethrower]

100% corrupt award anyway - decided by petty hatred (KB giving Ryan Griffen zero votes to help Brett Deledio win), bias towards certain teams and against others, and most of all by betting plunges.

Never forget when David King made massive bets on outsider Lewis Taylor to beat the overwhelming favourite, Marcus Bontempelli. King then used his position in the media to talk up Taylor on TV, on the radio and in the newspaper, and continuously influence the opinion of fellow media commentators who were voting on the RS award.

In the end King was able to get enough voters to flip on Bontempelli and give Taylor top votes to change the result of the award. Taylor pipped Bont by 1 vote, King was a very rich man, and the RS award was forever tainted.

[Happy Days]

That’s so lame. Getting suspended when you’re a rookie player is cool.

[Bumper Bulldogs]

From Jon Ralph

AFL has just confirmed under revised rules since McKernan in 1994 the Rising Star judges now only vote for eligible players. So players like Darcy and by this afternoon Reid "who have been found guilty of a reportable offence shall be ineligible and shall not receive votes".

Good news and the silver lining is that Darcy will avoid and hype and media around winning the award this year. Rigged anyway as they would by default give this award to the Eagles to pull them up. God knows that a tall kid playing in the forward half would be in front of a midfielder running around get easy kicks.