Ward Misses Out!

[Scorlibo]

Aaron Joseph has received the round 12 nomination, after his "standout" display against St Kilda in which he amassed 19 touches! I don't mind Joseph and I think he is deserving of a nomination, but not after Ward racks up more disposals than any of the previously nominated players have this season!

[Missing-Dog]

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Who does Callan have to sleep with to get nominated?

[Mantis]

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Joseph has been pretty consistent and probably deserved a nomination at some point, I just don't think it should have come this week. Ward has had 3 or 4 very good games in a row and thoroughly deserved a nomination this week.

[knowitall]

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So so stiff young Ward.
Never mind though, Ward will be a great player for the club this year, so i'm sure he will get another chance to be nominated by seasons end.

[Bornadog]

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Who the hell picks the nominations??? Ward with 33 disposals, surely should be the nominee for this week. This stinks

[knowitall]

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Who the hell picks the nominations??? Ward with 33 disposals, surely should be the nominee for this week. This stinks

Not a true enough indication of whether or not he was dominant enough to receive the nomination.
33 possessions is fantastic, but Aaron Joseph kept Milne to 8 possessions, and had 19 himself.

[Scorlibo]

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How can he pick up more disposals than any other eligible young player has this year, after a great month of footy, and still not get the nomination?

[Scorlibo]

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Not a true enough indication of whether or not he was dominant enough to receive the nomination.
33 possessions is fantastic, but Aaron Joseph kept Milne to 8 possessions, and had 19 himself.

It's not hard to keep Milne quiet given the right attention. He only averages 12 anyway. Joseph would have been deserving of a nomination in a week where there were no standout performers.

[knowitall]

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Aaron Joseph has been playing pretty well all year. Definitely deserves a nomination, and the selectors base alot of their decision on form and consistency, not just in the week of the nomination. Very true that Ward has had a good month of football, but Joseph has had a good year of football. Congratulations young Aaron Joseph

[Topdog]

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Aaron Joseph has been playing pretty well all year. Definitely deserves a nomination, and the selectors base alot of their decision on form and consistency, not just in the week of the nomination. Very true that Ward has had a good month of football, but Joseph has had a good year of football. Congratulations young Aaron Joseph

The decisions really are farcical at times and this week is one of them. You have people like Barxham getting the nods after 1 semi decent match when others should have been given them. The Rising Star is supposed to be for the best young player of the week and Joseph did nothing to indicate that he was the best young player this week. Either they have forgotten that Cal is eligible or they have just plain stuffed up.

Congrats to Joseph though, he has had a good start to his career.

[Sedat]

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The decisions really are farcical at times and this week is one of them. You have people like Barxham getting the nods after 1 semi decent match when others should have been given them. The Rising Star is supposed to be for the best young player of the week and Joseph did nothing to indicate that he was the best young player this week. Either they have forgotten that Cal is eligible or they have just plain stuffed up.

Congrats to Joseph though, he has had a good start to his career.

Joseph's job on Milne was every bit as complete as Hargrave's job on Milne last season, so I'd suggest that is a pretty compelling argument to give Joseph the nod this week. Doesn't mean that Ward isn't extremeny unlucky. And I could not agree more in relation to Barham's nomination - the voters screwed that week's nomination up royally by not rewarding either one of Ziebell or Joseph for their consistency in the first 4 rounds. But I don't think they screwed this week's nomination up, just made a tight call over two very worthy nominees.

[LostDoggy]

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Not important. What's important is his steady development, not awards. I don't mind that not only Ward, but many of our players this season have flown under the radar of the votes/awards and such like.

[bulldogtragic]

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I don't see the issue. I lost ALL interest in this stupid award after KB couldn't find any room for Griffen is his top 3 when every single other voter did. Now i don't care, it's a subject award which does not indicate a bloody thing. For all Deledio's winning the thing, how does he compare to Griff, let alone Roughy and Buddy. Cyril Rioli didn't win it last year, yet some of his individual performances helped win a premiership. Stupid, stupid, meaningless award.


Rant over.

[The Pie Man]

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Anyone see Rohan Smith on AFL Teams a few weeks ago talking about taggers, and in particular Joseph. Pickers & Parkin were baiting saying 'off air you called him a cheat' and Bubba was getting pretty fired up over the issue, saying he goes to football to watch the great players, not taggers.

Ward stiff to miss this week

[Mantis]

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I don't see the issue. I lost ALL interest in this stupid award after KB couldn't find any room for Griffen is his top 3 when every single other voter did. Now i don't care, it's a subject award which does not indicate a bloody thing. For all Deledio's winning the thing, how does he compare to Griff, let alone Roughy and Buddy. Cyril Rioli didn't win it last year, yet some of his individual performances helped win a premiership. Stupid, stupid, meaningless award.

Rant over.

Pretty sure he didn't give him a single vote in the end of year rankings where it is voted on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis so Griff didn't even make his top 5, I think everyone else gave him atleast 3 or 4 votes.