......Best First Year Player Award. Won in a landslide from that little shiela Thomas from the Colliwobbles.

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2002:> "In their Masters Chambers
They Gathered for their Feast
They Stabbed us with their Steely Knives
But They Just Can't Kill The Beast!" <2016

THE BLUEBAGGER BEAST IS BAACKK!!

Great effort

Can't wait to see more of him next year.

Hopefully 24 or so games worth of the regular and final seasons

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Ich bein ein Carltonian

That's because Murphy is a finer footballer than Thomas.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

NO WAAYY!!

just kidding mate.

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Guess what?
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Marc Murphy!!!!!!

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This might sound extreme in the context of alleged sexual assault, drunken violence and a drug trafficking charge...

Gibbs should have won.

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After they annonced his name, they said "Amen"

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Love Cricket? Love me

I'm crying, MURPHYYYYYYY

Well done Murph, well deserved. What an honour to be recognised by your peers.

Definitely.

The peer awards, surely are more a tru indication of a player's quality than awards given by partisan judges like the Rising Star...

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

The Murph of Murphs...........!


kindest regards tommi

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that'siti'mnotchangingthistagain......!

Yep agree 100%.

I know the Brownlow Medal/Rising Star etc awards are a tradition and I hope they stay but I think there is a good case that the MVP award is a higher accolade for a player to win than a medal like the Brownlow.

Look at the Oscars and the Golden Globes for instance. The Oscars are voted on by the academy, which consists mainly of your fellow actors. They are (in my opinion rightly) considered to be a higher award than the Golden Globes, which are great to win I'm sure but voted on by journalists. The point is that the award voted on by your peers is ranked the higher of the two. But for reasons I suppose of tradition, the award not voted on by your peers is the considered the highest individual award in the AFL.

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Formerly Blues-Back2003.

Brizzy declared



That's fantastic news. He was obviously the best by all critics based on games played. Unfortnately he didn't play enough games to win the Rising Star; forget about Thomas, I wonder how Pearce feels to have Murphy's award?

Fev suggest in The Age today that it's a done deal that Murphy will be captain of this club [in 2-3 years].

He's a beauty. If Gibbs is as good as him and pick 17 half as good as him, then we've got our future in quality hands; add Walker and Kennedy to that. Drool.

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well done Murph, if you played more games you would have won the rising star aswell, hope they change the rules of the rising star:only first year players!!!

retrospective medal??

i think we've heard enough about them in the last couple of weeks.

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the problem with the academy awards is that you get a lot of friends voting for friends situations. take russell crowe and a beautiful mind, easily best actor of the year...the film won best picture, best director and best actress (or was it supporting actress?), surely then it would stand to reason that the lead of the film would win best actor....no...no it didnt. he had won the year before for gladiator. denzel washington was up for training day, a good performance even a great performance, but it was not anywhere near that of crowe's. the academy awards has a history of handing out 'retrospective oscars', denzel probably should have won for hurricane and possibly even philidelphia. crowe was more deserving in the insider IMO. so on and so forth. you get one (not always, see adrian brody and the pianist) for not just the performance ur nominated for, but the ones that preceeded it. i once saw denis leary (a member of the academy) say he would vote for a friend even if out of the 5 or 6 they gave the least impressive performance. im sure that happens too much.

i agree that the AAs are seen as more prestigious, but the golden globes, voted for by the hollywood foreign press get a bad rap IMO.

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Carlton 2012: Lets remind them why they once feared the Dark.

Didn't Campo win a golden globe for his efforts in "Smacked in the mouth on the half forward flank" a 2005 epic of a fraud embezzeling money from his employer.

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