2017 Charlie Sutton Medal

[GVGjr]

The top 10 for last nights medal count were as follows

1) Marcus Bontempelli (185)
2) Jason Johannisen (184)
3) Jack Macrae (155)
4) Easton Wood (138)
5) Caleb Daniel (134)
6) Lachie Hunter (125)
7) Matt Suckling (119)
8) Zaine Cordy (119)
9) Shane Biggs (95)
10) Liam Picken (85)

Congrats to Bontempelli for his one point win on the night.

[Twodogs]

Suckling's done well. A lot better than I thought.

[GVGjr]

Suckling's done well. A lot better than I thought.

Easton Woods performance surprised me. He never quite got his season going

Not having Dahlhaus in the top 10 is probably a good indicator of why we struggled this year.
Liberatore and Wallis missed decent parts of the season.

Toby McLean's season should have had him close top the top 10

[Twodogs]

Easton Woods performance surprised me. He never quite got his season going

Not having Dahlhaus in the top 10 is probably a good indicator of why we struggled this year.
Liberatore and Wallis missed decent parts of the season.

Toby McLean's season should have had him close top the top 10

I'm suprised Macrae was 29 votes behind JJ. I thought Jack had a much better year.

And yeah, Maclean had a better year than a couple of blokes listed there.

[Remi Moses]

Surprised Toby didn't finish higher, and surprised Macrae didn't win.
Well done to the Bont, he's going to win about 10

[chef]

Congrats Bont. Im surprised McLean didnt finish top 5 TBH.

[Go_Dogs]

Helps being a defender clearly.

Biggs missed a lot of footy and had a very inconsistent year but still figures in the top 10. Would be interested to know what criteria the coaches use to vote.

[ReLoad]

What was the scoop talks wise?
Any words of wisdom from Bevo or PG?

Also any Stringer talk? Shame he didnt go

[Topdog]

Daniel was just no where near the damaging guy we saw last year, JJ was awful for about 10 games and McLean and Dale had quite a few great games. Other than Bont winning a very surprising result

[Go_Dogs]

Daniel was just no where near the damaging guy we saw last year, JJ was awful for about 10 games and McLean and Dale had quite a few great games. Other than Bont winning a very surprising result

The majority of players before the count were saying Jacko was their favourite to win. Surely they get a feel for who has been doing their job week in week out at the post game reviews, surprising that so many got it wrong.

Happy for Bont, despite it being a slightly down year for him, he's a worthy winner.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Odd voting. The cynic in me says it's a reflection of how disjointed we were as a club, even in the coaching box.

With all due respect it's ludicrous that JJ finished second, Wood fourth - both were poor outside of a handful of games.

McLean should have been top 5 and Dale pushing top 10.

Happy for Bont but it's a very bizarre set of results

[always right]

The biggest surprises;
- Macrae was half JJ's votes after round 16
- Bubba said JJ was miles in front of everyone after round 8
- McLean never featured on the leaderboard at any stage.
- Suckling is rated higher by coaches than supporters
- Coaches clearly rated a lot of Wood's work even though his intercept game was well down on previous years.
- Dahlhaus's disposal and reduced influence on games is reflected in his votes tally.

I was pleased Bont just pipped JJ. Wouldn't have felt right seeing JJ take home the medal.

[ratsmac]

Helps being a defender clearly.

Biggs missed a lot of footy and had a very inconsistent year but still figures in the top 10. Would be interested to know what criteria the coaches use to vote.

It definitely looks that way. Although the defender's held it together most of the season. The mids got cut up and made the ground impossible to defend at times and the forwards had their work cut out for them by the way the ball came in. They didn't convert when they had their chance either. So it's probably no surprise that a lot of defender have polled well.

I am shocked Jack Macrae didn't win and just as shocked to see JJ come second. Had JJ won it would of been wrong considering he was lucky to get a touch for the best part of the middle of the year. Well done to JJ for turning his year around though.

Congratulations Bont. Youngest ever dual Sutton medallist. I think we could be watching the GOAT right before our eyes.

[Bulldog Revolution]

What the results show to me is
1) we had a bad year - Bont is a deserving winner but did not have an amazing year
2) struggled for players who consistently impact games
3) those who do impact games, scored the highest (Bont, JJ and Wood)
4) those not on the list - Dahl, Libba, Wallis, Roughie, McLean, red, Stringer, Dickson etc highlight how odd the ball we wer
5) guys who we thought were good - McLean and macrae need to continue to improve to hurt opposition teams - it's no time to stand still

[Axe Man]

Perhaps they need to look at the voting system:

Following each AFL match, coach Luke Beveridge and four assistants each give a vote from zero to five for each player. Players can receive a minimum of zero or maximum of 25 votes for any game.

Given that it should reward consistency it's surprising that Macrae didn't finish closer to Bont and that JJ polled so well given he was anything but consistent.

Personally I would have been surprised if Mclean finished top 5. I think he finished the year well and perhaps that sticks in peoples minds.