Keepitreal wrote:t0mmy wrote:interesting reception for the div 7R winner!
When are the other clubs in Div 7 going to join forces and stop this reserves medal farce and have their respective club umpires pick a talented player from their own side and allocate the same player the votes in every game played so at season end we will have a 10 way tie for the medal.

for a start, he polled most of his votes at away games with the home club umpire being mostly in charge of votes. suggesting that the uni umpire has total say over votes is nonsense of the highest degree; both sides provide umpires - i'm sure that there has been no joe bardanaro (?) pulled here and the voting slips would back me up.
secondly, he's a very good footballer.
thirdly, get over it - he's chosen to play 7 reserves - with mates - why is this such a bad thing? he played higher before uni and doesn't need to prove anything to himself, tried out with the a grade and badly broke his ankle to the stage where he was going to retire from all forms of the game but was talked into playing by an old school friend. surely its better for someone to play than not at all.
fourthly, there's a heap of players throughout the league who choose or are unable to train as much as they'd like and thus play lower than their ability suggests. he's not an orphan.