Why only 22 premiership medals? - rec.sport.football.australian

Message from discussion Why only 22 premiership medals?

pballard

More options Sep 22 1999, 5:00 pm

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From: pball...@radlogic.com.au

Date: 1999/09/22

Subject: Why only 22 premiership medals?

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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/
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