Congratulations Joel Bowden-PRE player of the year.
Congratulations on willing this prestigious award Joel. ;D
This win bodes well for Joel on Jack Dyer medal night. The winner is usually copied from our player of the year competition. OK Maybe we've just been astute judges in the past.
A magnificent second half of the season saw Joel pile on votes to overtake Nathan Brown who had led the voting right until the final round.
Richo also scored lot of votes in the second half of the season to finish in third place.
Joel's win is nothing short of a miracle seeing there are people on PRE who wouldn't give him a vote if he was the only Tiger on the ground and he won by 100 goals.
Modesty forbids me mentioning the wonderful job his president has done preparing him every week.
It hasn't always been easy. For example Joel has been known to head to the wrong ground. Understandable really cos we'd all prefer to be at the G too and that's where all our games should be played.
I'd like to make a special thank you to Redders for dobbing me in/daring me/putting up the challenge for me to take on Joel's presidency.
It's been a pleasure.
Results of round 22
Hartigan=70
Bowden-61
Richardson-37
Campbell-8
Brown-4
Jackson-3
Gaspar-1
Raines-1
Progressive total after round 22
Bowden......685
Brown........662
Richardson..621
Johnson.....335
Krakouer....261
Hartigan.....178
Hyde.........134
Campbell....127
Ottens.......122
Tivendale...113
Fleming.......96
Rodan........81
Schulz.......77
Pettifer......58
Newman.....49
Hall...........49
Roach........32
Zantuck......27
Jackson......20
Coughlan....12
Fiora..........12
Chaffey......7
Weller.........6
Hilton.........4
A.Kellaway..4
Stafford.....4
Blumfield.....4
Rogers...... 2
Moore........2
Tuck..........1
Marsh........1
Gaspar……..1
Raines……..1