Time for half three! Ahead of the 2023 AFL season I needed to take a look at which gamers may crack into the top 10 of their membership’s Best and Fairest who weren’t in there final 12 months. Perhaps they have been injured in the course of the 2022 season or their kind didn’t fairly stack up.
I might be exploring this by analyzing the league in three teams of six groups. The final six groups are Port Adelaide, Richmond, St Kilda, Sydney, West Coast Eagles and Western Bulldogs.
Port Adelaide
2022 Best and Fairest: Connor Rozee, 132 votes
2. Travis Boak
3. Dan Houston
4. Ollie Wines
5. Sam Powell- Pepper
6. Todd Marshall
7. Zac Butters
8. Karl Amon
9. Ryan Burton
10. Jeremy Finlayson
Willem Drew performed each sport in a second successive season. He carried out the lockdown function on events alongside the opposite big-bodied midfielders at Port Adelaide equivalent to Travis Boak, Ollie Wines and Samuel Powell-Pepper.
Drew did it to nice impact additionally, profitable himself loads of the ball. He was first for tackles, third in complete clearances, and ninth for rating involvements. Probably one factor he may work on is hitting the scoreboard extra, with solely 4 objectives for the season. He’s positively a powerful contender to complete contained in the top 10.
Richmond
2022 Best and Fairest: Tom Lynch, 60 votes
2. Daniel Rioli
3. Dion Prestia
=4. Liam Baker
=4. Shai Bolton
=6. Trent Cotchin
=6. Jayden Short
=8. Toby Nankervis
=8. Marlion Pickett
10. Nathan Broad
The Richmond one is troublesome to consider, till you bear in mind the shadow of the No.4 hanging over the competitors. That in fact being Dustin Martin, who has had his fair proportion of setbacks together with struggling that painful harm to his kidneys in the course of the 2021 season. Last season he additionally endured the passing of his father and ongoing hamstring problems.
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He injured his hamstring towards West Coast in Round 16, taking place early within the third quarter. Up till he went off he was the most effective participant on the bottom with that spring in his step and that energy again in his kicking. Whether we can nonetheless see these performances a 12 months on is the query. I feel we can.
St Kilda
2022 Best and Fairest: Jack Sinclair, 174 votes
2. Callum Wilkie
3. Jack Steele
4. Tim Membrey
5. Seb Ross
6. Brad Crouch
=7. Jade Gresham
=7. Bradley Hill
=7. Max King
10. Josh Battle
Rowan Marshall has an enormous function to fill now with out the assistance and steering of Paddy Ryder. He’s able to take that subsequent step. He performed probably the most video games he’s ever performed in a season 21. He was good this season with out being nice, rating eighth in rating involvements, fifth for complete clearances and fifth for tackles for St Kilda. In the competitors he was ranked ninth in hit outs.
Marshall can be probably the greatest ruckmen within the sport. The Saints consider so too, signing him on until 2026. This 12 months can be the right time to indicate what he can do.
Sydney
2022 Best and Fairest: Callum Mills, 662 votes
2. Chad Warner
3. James Rowbottom
4. Luke Parker
5. Isaac Heeney
6. Tom McCartin
7. Errol Gulden
8. Jake Lloyd
9. Dane Rampe
10. Oliver Florent
The little livewire Tom Papley missed the primary seven video games of the 2022 season as a consequence of a hamstring harm. Once he was again, he didn’t miss a beat. He scored in 17 of his 19 video games and had a number of objectives in 12 of these video games. He was good at offering objectives to others as effectively.
He was ranked sixth at Sydney for rating involvements, he had 129 at a median of 6.8 – solely overwhelmed by Chad Warner who had 169 at 7.0. The electrical energy that Papley supplies to the Swans is obvious no matter stats, nonetheless. If he stays injury-free, he’s actually going to be up there.
West Coast
2022 Best and Fairest: Tom Barrass, 182 votes
2. Shannon Hurn
3. Tim Kelly
4. Jack Darling
5. Liam Duggan
6. Jack Redden
7. Luke Shuey
8. Jamie Cripps
9. Jamaine Jones
10. Liam Ryan
Elliot Yeo holds the very excessive status of profitable a Best and Fairest in a premiership 12 months in 2018. His tackling and tackle-breaking capacity are excellent. Who can neglect these tackles towards Dustin Martin at Optus Stadium in 2018? Those feats made him a novel participant, however we haven’t seen these traits for a couple of years now.
Yeo will solely be 29 years outdated this season so there’s nonetheless loads of his profession left. He had a really interrupted 12 months final season, solely managing 5 video games. If he can have a full pre-season and get himself tremendous match, it should solely profit the West Coast Eagles.
Western Bulldogs
2022 Best and Fairest: Josh Dunkley, 231 votes
2. Tom Liberatore
3. Aaron Naughton
4. Marcus Bontempelli
5. Jackson Macrae
6. Caleb Daniel
7. Ryan Gardiner
8. Adam Treloar
9. Bailey Dale
10. Ed Richards
Bailey Smith, the dynamic midfielder, had a great season. He did miss 4 video games in the course of the center of 12 months as a consequence of on-field and off-field indiscretions. Although, when he was on the park, he was deadly. He averaged 29 disposals.
Perhaps the one weak point in his sport was ranked seventh for rating involvements and he solely kicked six objectives for the 12 months. If he can get that variety of objectives as much as 10 or 15, he turns into a fair more durable participant to cease.
