Yahoo Answers is shutting down on 4 May 2021 (Eastern Time) and the Yahoo Answers website is now in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

☺ Fish ☺
Lv 6
☺ Fish ☺ asked in SportsFootball (Australian)Australian Rules · 8 years ago

Y!A AFL MVP ~ Round 8. Who is your MVP?

Thanks Y!A Aussie Rules section, I'm looking for more nominations for the sections most prestigious award. The votes go from 5 (best player of the round) to 1 (5th best player of the round). The votes are tallied up, averaged out and assorted into a leaderboard - the current leaderboard is shown here.

The leaderboard of Rounds 1-7 added up looks something like this.

1. Gary Ablett (12 votes)

2. Joel Selwood (9 votes)

3. Patrick Dangerfield (8 votes)

4. Justin Westhoff (6 votes)

4. Hamish Hartlett (6 votes)

4. Dean Cox (6 votes)

7. Dyson Heppell (5 votes)

8. Steve Johnson (5 votes)

9. Jamie Elliott (4 votes)

9. Luke Hodge (4 votes)

9. David Zaharakis (4 votes)

9. Travis Cloke (4 votes)

13. Jobe Watson (3 votes)

13. Sam Mitchell (3 votes)

13. Charlie Dixon (3 votes)

13. Tom Lynch (Adel) (3 votes)

13. Jack Riewoldt (3 votes)

13. Dale Thomas (3 votes)

13. Ollie Wines (3 votes)

20. Scott Pendlebury (2 votes)

20. Majak Daw (2 votes)

20. Jeremy Cameron (2 votes)

20. Cyril Rioli (2 votes)

24. Jake Carlisle (1 vote)

24. Harry Taylor (1 vote)

24. Brett Deledio (1 vote)

Congratulations to Gary Ablett, Joel Selwood and Patrick Dangerfield who make up our top 3 most valuable players 7 rounds into the season..

Now, please enter your votes for round 8! (The last round) :)

My votes -

5 - Nic Naitanui. Played a ripper game and the goal at the end was just the icing on the cake. Most valuable player of the weekend.

4 - Brandon Ellis. 39 disposals is astounding for a second-year player off a HBF.

3 - Gary Ablett. The little master was at it again, cleaning up the 'Dogs at Metricon.

2 - Dayne Zorko. A huge influence to cause Brisbane to inflict the upset of the year, BOG.

1 - Dan Hannebery. Just about hauled the Swans over the line V the Dockers.

Harry O'Brien was very very stiff to miss out, as was Marc Murphy, Rory Thompson, Nick Vlastuin and Rory Sloane to name a few.

Thanks :)

Update:

Interesting guys re: NicNat, I did only watch the second half of the match so was judging based on that. I'll definitely keep that in mind when tallying the votes (i.e. if he is equal for the one vote position with someone else I will lean towards the someone else) Thanks.

5 Answers

Relevance
  • Xcootz
    8 years ago
    Favourite answer

    From the games I saw:

    5) Ellis: Absolutely amazing game!

    4) Vlastuin: For rookies he is right up there with the big O'meara! Give him a few more rounds and he may even surpass him....

    3) Duffield: Solid game coming off half back and did he even play a bit of midfield? Can't remember :P

    2) Sloane: Pretty sure he touched the ball on every second Crows' possession

    1) Ablett: Deserves a vote just for being Ablett.

    I agree as well actually, Nic Nat didn't have the best game but THAT MARK!!! One of the best I've seen in a while.. actually in a long time. And to seal the game as well, that's clutch right there. No doubt he's a superstar and will be getting plenty of votes as the season goes on, just not this week.

    Actually give him a 1/2 vote :D

  • Quandary
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Only saw a couple of games

    5 - Nick Vlastuin. Absolute rock solid gun player.

    4 - Dayne Zorko - was brilliant

    3 - Ellis - better go have a shower and wash the leather off before he gts poisoned

    2 - Dane Swan - broke his tag way too often against the Cats

    1 - The dipstick umpire and Gieschen who thought that was actually a free kick to Selwood. They really need to change the rule to make it clearer that if the hands are making contact with the body then incidental, non-forceful contact with the head by the upper arm is NOT a free kick. Not that it was anyway... but clearly the ump doesn't get it and nor does Gieschen .. #endof rant#

    I thought Natanui was particularly mediocre actually until one great mark at the end

  • Dream-Team Fanatic
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    5 - Daniel Hannebery - 4 goals and on a Crowley tag pretty much sums it all up

    4 - Brandon Ellis - I know he played Melbourne but I genuinely think this guy had an amazing game

    3 - Jarryd Roughead - 5 goals and all round good performance

    2 - Scott Pendlebury - huge in the collingwood win

    1 - Rory Sloane - gets 1 vote from me because as a St Kilda supporter I watched him tare us apart

    Source(s): EDIT - Agree with Quandary - watching the whole game I don't actually believe Naitanui's game was as influential as people make it out to be - The last mark and goal was really what made up for quite a regular game by his standards- His outs to advantage and efficiency were up (hence his huge SC rating) however he wasn't as much a stand out as the players above
  • Kamootchi
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    5 votes - Dayne Zorko

    4 votes - Harry O'brien

    3 votes - Brandon Ellis

    2 votes - R Sloane

    1 vote - J. O'meara

    Ellis, o'brien, zorko, nat, O'mera

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    3 votes to Jay Schultz. His 7 goal haul was once the difference between Port successful & losing that game. Although he did not kick the profitable goal. It used to be a fine man or woman effort. 2 votes to Patric Dangerfield. His work in close with Nathan Van Berlo used to be anything to observe in the recreation towards Carlton. 1 vote to giant Dean Cox. I in my view feel that his 5 intention haul went a hell of an extended solution to breaking the Saints again on the weekend. Dam just right effort from the giant man. Cheers.

Still have questions? Get answers by asking now.