Message from discussion Why only 22 premiership medals?

From: "Sandy McAvaney" <Hugh_Ja...@mailexcite.com>
Subject: Re: Why only 22 premiership medals?
Date: 1999/09/22
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Minimum number of games is a must !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think 11
games would consider you a fair contributor to the season.


<pball...@radlogic.com.au> wrote in message
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> The crying has already started. Jason McCartney and Aaron Hamill have
> been suspended, and one of them will miss out on a Premiership medal.
>
> North Melbourne even trotted out a player who'd missed a previous
> Grand Final through suspension (Richmond's Graeme Landy from 1980)
> who complained "My name is not part of the club history, it is not
> up on any of the plaques anywhere"
>
> Not to mention cases like Derek Kickett and Tony Modra...
> (or in the reverse, 1997 3-gamer Aaron Keating)
>
> So I ask: why not give a premiership medal to every player who
> has taken the field for the premiership side that year?
> And present it publicly, on Grand Final day?
> It would go a long way to compensating for the disappointment
> of not playing that day.
>
> Those players are part of the premiership effort, and
> deserve to be acknowledged and rewarded.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Ballard
> Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
> pball...@radlogic.com.au OR pball...@ozemail.com.au
> http://www.ozemail.com.au/~pballard/
> [personal opinions only]
>
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