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Welcome To The 2023 Punt Road End Player of the Year

5 Dustin
4 Shorty
3 Broad
2 Trigger
1 Not Paddy

Soldo stiff, 8 marks was telling
Shai also a tad stiff, get that kicking right & that lip in check & ....................................
 
Ladies and Gentlemen,

Your attention please.

The moment we have been waiting for is at hand, when we reveal,

the winner

of the 2023


Punt Road End Player of the Year
 
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After a season of highs and lows the results are in and the posters of PRE have spoken.

This years results certainly reflect the fact that a number of players were given more opportunity this year as injuries cruelled the seasons of a number of our more experienced players.

And so without further ado, the winner, of the 2023 Punt Road End Player of the Year is..................................




Tim Taranto - 119.5 votes



And rounding out the top 10 were

2nd: Shai Bolton 110.5
3rd: Dustin Martin 109.5
4th: Liam Baker 80.5
5th: Noah Balta 79
6th: Daniel Rioli 75
7th: Jayden Short 55
8th: Nick Vlastuin 50.5
9th: Jacob Hopper 46.5
10th: Toby Nankervis 45.5


Votes for the remaining players

Jack Ross 45
Nathan Broad 45
Dion Prestia 30.5
Jack Riewoldt 26
Marlion Pickett 23
Tylar Young 22.5
Noah Cumberland 19.5
Ivan Soldo 19.5
Trent Cotchin 17.5
Samson Ryan 15
Thomson Dow 14
Kamdyn McIntosh 13
Dylan Grimes 10.5
Jack Graham 8.5
Tom Lynch 7.5
Judson Clarke 6
James Tresize 5
Matthew Coulthard 2.5
Jacob Bauer 2.5
Rhyan Mansell 2
Sam Banks 1.5
Hugo Ralphsmith 1
Tom Brown 1
Tyler Sonsie 0.5
Ben Miller 0.5
 
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Last year's winner Dion Prestia dropped out of the Top 10 for 2023 completely, finishing 13th. Also dropping out of the Top 10 this year were:

Marlion Pickett (3rd to 15th)
Trent Cotchin (5th to 19th)
Tom Lynch (7th to 25th)
Nathan Broad (8th to equal 11th)

Making their way in to the Top 10 were:

Tim Taranto (New)
Dustin Martin (20th to 2nd)
Noah Balta (18th to 5th)
Jacob Hopper (New)
Toby Nankervis (11th to 10th)
 
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Model of Consistency

Tim Taranto failed to poll votes in only two rounds, Round 15 and Round 23. He polled a maximum 10 votes 5 times, and 8 votes (second best) on 4 occasions.

Shai Bolton matched Taranto, only failing to poll votes in Round 2 and Round 20. He polled the maximum 10 votes 4 times. But he couldn't match Taranto for the lesser vote tallies, often getting 2-3 votes whereas Taranto fell to 4-5 votes games.

Liam's Perfect Game

Liam Baker knocked it out of the park in Round 3. Every PRE voter awarded him their 5 votes for the round. All 41 voters that round voted him best on for the Tigers! Impressive!.

Just because he is Dusty, Martin went one better than Liam, doing the same thing in Round 22 and Round 23. But it should be noted that only 27 PREnders cast votes in each of those rounds, making the feat a little easier than Liam's.


Hot Start

Daniel Rioli started the season like a train, polling 30 out of a possible 40 votes over the first 4 rounds of the season. Injuries hammered him late, and he fell away to a total of 75.

Hot Trot

Tim Taranto obviously figured he would cop an AA snub and so decided he had better win something for the mantle piece. Between Round 6 and Round 14 he was a man on a mission, polling 72 out of a possible 90 votes over this period. The award was a foregone conclusion from that point on.

Saving his best to last

Who else but the great man Dusty. In the last 3 rounds he grabbed 27 of a possible 30 votes with 2 X BOGs in the final two rounds. He gave Taranto too much of a headstart, but he nearly ran down Bolton, which seemed unlikely when at the end of Round 16, Bolton led Dusty by 28 votes.

Ivan Soldo deserves a special mention here too. Overcoming injury and poor early season form, he polled in his last 7 games of the season. He only played 8 games for the season, so that is an impressive strike rate for the big fella!


Rookie of the year

Tylar Young got a fair bit of opportunity with Gibcus not playing, and while his tally of 22.5 votes might not seem that impressive, he polled votes in 11 of his 19 games for the season. Outstanding for a rookie KPD.
 
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Dions drop off in voting matched his drop off on field.

Broad missed 4 games which reflected in the voting also.

Timmy, Shai, Dustin Balta, Baker and Dan the likely top 6 in the JDM order to be determined apart from Timmy getting 1st place.

We are a pretty accurate lot on PRE.

Kudos Streaker and great stuff (y);)
 
Thanks Streak taking over Running in Season 2023
 
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