So we'll be doing the same thing as last season with three separate, major awards: the Coaches Award, Most Valuable Player, and Coach of the Year. First, nominate your players who receiver your Coaches Award and MVP nominations - one per club (note that coach of the year nominations do not have to be submitted as every coach will be on the voting form). Then I'll send out a voting form where people will submit their 5-4-3-2-1 votes for each of the three awards (and you can't vote for your own players).
Coaches Award is basically the player that you think deserves a special mention - whether it's overcoming adversity, exceeding expectations vastly, proving the coach wrong, or anything else in that trend.
MVP is basically the "best" player in your team - whoever wins your best and fairest is a good indicator, should you do one.
So try and post your two nominated players in the coming days/weeks. Nominees can be changed up until voting has started.
Team: Coaches Award and MVP
Anaheim: Zach Merrett and Patrick Dangerfield
Boston: Jeremy Howe and Scott Pendlebury
Carolina: Marcus Bontempelli and Dustin Martin
Chicago:
Colorado: Tom Scully and Lachie Hunter
Houston: Alex Rance and Rory Sloane
Las Vegas: Tom Mitchell and Kurt Tippett
New Brooklyn: Tim Membrey and Steele Sidebottom
Ottawa: Jesse Hogan and Adam Treloar
Quito: Callum Mills and Kade Simpson
Santiago: Dayne Zorko and Max Gawn
San Francisco: Stephen Coniglio and Heath Shaw
Conigs and Heater get my nominations!
Tim Membrey and Steele Sidebottom
Boston
MVP: Pendles (special mention to Neale)
Coaches Award: Jeremy Howe (special mention to Matty Wright)
Will be finishing off my best and fairest tomorrow or Thursday so will get these up then!
Colorado
Coaches award; Tom Scully
MVP: Lachie Hunter
Tom Mitchell and Kurt Tippett
MVP: Kade Simpson
Coaches Award: Callum Mills
Santiago Cockerels
MVP: Maxy gAWN! (Ruck)
Coaches Award: Dayne Zorko (M/F)
Coaches Award: Jesse Hogan (19 votes from 5 games in the BnF plus the literally only good player in my forward line).
MVP: Adam Treloar (BnF winner, flower the spoiler alert).
Coach's award: Alex Rance
MVP: Rory Sloane
Panthers.
Coaches Award: Marcus Bontempelli.
MVP: Dustin Martin.
Anaheim
MVP: Patrick Dangerfield
Coaches Award: Zach Merrett
Cheers to all the active coaches (RIP pope) for getting their nominations and reserves sides in. I'll send out the voting form in a few days time.
Coaches Award
Winner: Zach Merrett (Anaheim Mighty Ducks) (33 votes)
Runners Up
2nd. Marcus Bontempelli (Carolina Panthers) (26 votes)
3rd. Stephen Coniglio (San Francisco Grizzlies) and Dayne Zorko (Santiago Cockerels) (20 votes)
5th. Alex Rance (Houston Bombers) (13 votes)
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Most Valuable Player - the Americas Medallist
Winner: Patrick Dangerfield (Anaheim Mighty Ducks) (41 votes)
Runners Up
2nd. Max Gawn (Santiago Cockerels) (34 votes)
3rd. Dustin Martin (Carolina Panthers) (27 votes)
4th. Heath Shaw (San Francisco Grizzlies) and Scott Pendlebury (Boston Terriers) (11 votes)
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Coach of the Year
Winner: nas (Carolina Panthers) (37 votes)
Runners Up
2nd. elephants (34 votes)
3rd. Jukes and kilbluff1985 (21 votes)
5th. T Dog (10 votes)
I'll do proper write-ups later. Every player and coach nominated received votes except for Steele Sidebottom (MVP), Tom Scully (CA), and Jesse Hogan (CA).
gg Zerrett and Danger would of been a tough year without them
Watch this space for Callum Mills MVP 2017 as the top averaging defender in the comp 8)
Any hope of some success this season is gawn for the Cockerels :'(
That cheeky mug is just adding insult to injury :P