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TASSIE MEDAL | Recognising Tasmania’s best and fairest player
What an exciting finish to our countdown to
establish the winner of the Wrest Point State
League Tassie Medalist for 2010. Will it be a
case of ‘Murphy’s Law’ or will we see a more
conventional outcome with a clear cut winner
being crowned?
The list of players still in the running has now
been cut from 20 to 10. The list of 10 players
was released by AFL Tasmania earlier this week
and represents the crème de la crème of the
state’s footballers.
Four southern players and six northern players,
including last year’s winner, Devonport’s Kurt
Heazlewood, are still a chance to win the award
or more precisely top the count. In all, six of
the league’s 10 clubs have representatives.
To add to the intrigue, North Launceston
midfielder, Zane Murphy, remains in contention
to top the award but is ineligible to win as he
was suspended during the season and thus
does not meet the requirements of the ‘Best
and Fairest’. If Murphy can top the count he
will join a small number of players who have
done so, including North Melbourne’s Corey
McKernan in 1996, Western Bulldogs’ Chris
Grant in 1997 for the Brownlow Medal and
Claremont’s Derek Kickett who topped the poll
for the WAFL’s Sandover Medal by 16 votes, but
could not win due to suspension in the 1980s.
The winner will be announced during today’s
Wrest Point State League Grand Final and best
wishes to all players on a top season.
2010 Tassie Medal - Top 10
• Burnie - Luke Shackleton.
• Clarence - Brett Geappen, Trent Standen,
Cameron Thurley.
• Devonport - Kurt Heazlewood.
• Lauderdale - Marcus Fitze.
• Launceston - Kurt McCabe, Sam
O’Keefe, Scott Stephens.
• North Launceston - Zane Murphy.
Launceston’s Brian Finch has won
the Hudson Medal, topping the goal kicking
across the home and away series with 81 goals.
Finch is the second Hudson medallist after
Clarence forward Brad Dutton won the award
in 2009 with 63 goals. The award is named
after Tasmanian and Hawthorn goalkicking
champion, Peter Hudson.
Devonport’s Ben Reynolds has won the Lefroy
Medal as the best player for Tasmania in the
interstate competition. Ben follows a long line
of Medallists as the award has been made for
more than 60 years. The award is named after
a Hobart based football Club which went into
recess during the second world war.
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