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Premiership medals to all players, not just the 22
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From: pball...@ozemail.com.au (Peter Ballard)
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Subject: Premiership medals to all players, not just the 22
Date: 24 Sep 2003 19:28:56 -0700
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G'day all,
I posted a similar thing in 1999 (re. Jason McCartney) and now seems a
good time to toss it in again with the Rocca thing (though I think
Brisbane will win).
IMHO, Premiership medals should go to every player at the club who
took the field during the year. This notion that only the 22 on GF day
are "Premiership players" is just ridiculous. All players contribute
to premiership success, not just those who are in the 22 on GF day.
On Monday night, Eddie called Ricciuto a "1998 premiership player".
That annoyed me. Roo was injured for the 1997 finals, but he was a big
part of Adelaide getting there. In fact he was one of Adelaide's 2
all-Australians in 1997. The other was Tony Modra, who did his knee in
the Prelim. Ricciuto at least got to play the 1998 GF. Modra (like
McCartney, and possibly Rocca) was a huge part of his team's
Premiership success but has no medal to show for it. It's a joke that
relative hacks like A.Keating, Rintoul and Sampson are "Premiership
Players" because they happened to be fit on GF day in 1997, yet Modra
is not.
The usual argument is that giving more medals devalues the Premiership
medal, or that those outside the 22 didn't contribute on the day. I
disagree. Hey, if we only give medals to those who only contribute on
the day, why not take a few more away? IIRC, David Pittman was on the
bench for all of Adelaide's 2nd half comeback in 1998. No (1998) medal
for him then? And ditto Rod Jamieson who was injured in the opening
minutes in 1997? (My Crows bias is coming through here, I'm sure
there's examples from other clubs).
I haven't noticed anyone complain that the Brownlow is devalued now
that it is awarded to those who "lose" the tie-break. And I'm sure no
"Premiership Players" will begrudge Premiership medals to teammates
who, for whatever reason, didn't happen to be in the team on GF day.
If Collingwood win on Saturday, it'd be great if Rocca could still
come up and get a medal. Cause he'd have contributed a lot more to the
Premiership than lots of the players on the day.
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Regards,
Peter Ballard
Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
pball...@ozemail.com.au
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~pballard/
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