2006 Magarey Medal Vote Details

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Christ dude, nice work, but way too many figures for someone who hasn't been to bed yet.

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Christ dude, nice work, but way too many figures for someone who hasn't been to bed yet.

Neither have I.

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2006 MAGAREY MEDALLIST ANNOUNCED
BRETT BACKWELL JOINS SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL'S ELITE
Tonight, the South Australian National Football League named Brett Backwell, from the Glenelg Football Club, the 2006 Magarey Medallist. The annual black tie Magarey Medal Presentation Dinner was held at the Adelaide Convention Centre and was telecast live on Channel Nine.
Brett finished on 26 votes, 9 clear of Stephen Kenna of South Adelaide and Justin Cicolella of the Eagles.
Brett receives two return business class airfares to London flying Malaysia Airlines with $2,000 spending money.
Other winners presented on the evening included;
Ken Farmer Medal presented to the Sir James Leading Goal kicker – Mark Passador (Woodville-West Torrens)
Reserves Magarey Medal – Ryan Lewis (Norwood)
Tomkins Medal (Under 19's) – Samuel McDonald (West Adelaide)
McCallum Medal (Under 17's) – Jack Bampton (Norwood)
Please find below the top vote getters from tonight's Magarey Medal count –
Brett Backwell (GFC) 26 votes
Stephen Kenna (SAFC) 17 votes
Justin Cicolella (WWTFC) 17 votes
Chad O’Sullivan (CDFC) 16 votes
Tim Inkster (WWTFC) 15 votes
Scott Borlace (NFC) 13 votes
Dean Howard (NAFC) 12 votes
Craig Parry (SAFC) 12 votes
Scott Bamford (NAFC) 11 votes
The SANFL would like to thank the Major Sponsor of the 2006 SANFL Magarey Medal, Signs Inc.

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A slightly better pic than the one of me and Mouse:

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More info:

Brett Backwell becomes the 9th Glenelg player to win the Magarey Medal.
His 26 votes is the highest number of votes polled by the winner since Nathan Buckley in 1992 - 27. (Josh Francou also polled 26 in 1996)
His career tally of votes now stands at 61 - 12 of those were at West in 2002.
It is the 4th time that Backwell has been in the top 20.

Justin Cicolella has now become the first Eagles player to poll 100 votes - 109 in total.
He has 26 first preference, 12 second preference and 7 third preference votes over an eight year period.
For the 8th season in a row he has finished in the top 20 including:

-equal third in 1999
-third in 2002
-third in 2003
-fourth in 2004
-equal fifth in 2005
-equal second in 2006

It is the equal highest an Eagles player has polled in the Magarey Medal, Shayne Breuer finished equal 2nd in 1993, Gavin Colville 2nd in 2000 and equal 2nd in 2004.

Stephen Kenna has finished in the top 20 for the first time. It is the highest placing by a South player since Andrew Osborn won it in 1998.

Chad O'Sullivan in his first season of SANFL finished 4th. He polled 16 votes out of 19 minor round matches.

It is also the first time Tim Inkster has finsihed in the Top 20.

Here is a chart of this years top 20 placings and their total number of top 20 placings:



Team Votes:
(for each club)
85 votes by Eagles is the highest since 2004 - 87.
83 votes by North is the highest since 1989 - 103.
73 votes by South is the highest since 1991 - 95.
71 votes by Central is the lowest since 1999 - 57.
69 votes by Glenelg is the highest since 1999 - 71.
60 votes by Port is the lowest since 2004 - 49.
50 votes by Norwood is the highest since 2002 - 88.
30 votes by West is the highest since 2004 - 47.
19 votes by Sturt is the lowest since 1995 - 17.

19 votes by Sturt is the second equal lowest votes by one club in a season ever. (West polled 19 votes last year)

[ferret]

Great work spell - check. Craps all over the Advertisers effort, especially when they get stats. wrong (ie Cicolella's total votes).

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The original table I posted had one or two minor errors - it pays to double check.

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The original table I posted had one or two minor errors - it pays to double check.

At least you have corrected it, I am still waiting on someone from the advertiser to pop around with a new page to insert into my sports section

[MightyEagles]

Above it said that it was black tie, but how many players did you see wearing black tie, most were different colours.

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Above it said that it was black tie, but how many players did you see wearing black tie, most were different colours.

I think you will find black tie is a standard of dress as opposed to a particular colour tie ME!

[Adelaide Hawk]

Great work spell - check. Craps all over the Advertisers effort, especially when they get stats. wrong (ie Cicolella's total votes).

I bought the early edition, and they had a photo of Jeremy Clayton on the front.

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One last pic from today: