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TROPHIES | Wrest Point Tasmania State League Premiership 2010
The Wrest Point Tasmania State League will
issue a range of traditional trophies for the best
teams, coaches, players and umpires in 2010.
These include:
FLAG - The traditional reward for the premier
team is the provision of a Flag or Pennant. The
presentation is made either on Grand Final day or
at the commencement of the new season when
the Flag is unfurled at the winning Club’s first
home game of the season.
CUP - There have been many Premiership Cups
presented to winning teams in competitions
across Tasmania. The VFL / AFL only commenced
presenting the now famous AFL Premiership
Cup in 1960, but in Tasmania a perpetual cup,
called the Bulldog Cup, was presented for the
Tasmanian State Premiership team from the very
early days of the competition. The whereabouts
of the Bulldog Cup is not known, but the
distinctive trophies presented to all teams who
participated in the first Tasmanian State League
are firmly entrenched in the respective winner’s
trophy cabinets. The Clarence FC won 5 state
premiership cups during their golden era from
1993 to 2000 and added to that in 2009 with the
inaugural Wrest Point Tasmania State League.
MEDALS - The issuing of medals to the players
participating in the Grand Final commenced in
the VFL / AFL in 1979, when the first Norm Smith
Medal for best on ground was issued to Carlton’s
Wayne Harmes. Up until 1982 medals were also
issued to the players of the runner-up team, but in
1981 Collingwood ruckman Peter Moore tossed
his medal into the crowd in disgust at receiving
his third successive runner up medal (Collingwood
lost in 1979, 1980 and 1981). The VFL / AFL
discontinued the practice of presenting runner
up medals at that time. This year a Premiership
Medal will be presented to the players and the
participating umpires will be recognized. The
best player on the ground will be awarded the
prestigious Darrel Baldock Medal.
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