Will Ashcroft wins the Gary Ayres Medal - The Late Trade - Day 4 (28.09.26)
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How did the coaches rank Will Ashcroft in the Grand Final votes?
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And we also add Marty Pask on the late trade each and every afternoon for the next three weeks. Uh between the hours of four thirty and six Melbourne time on the the late trade. The votes are in from the two coaches, Justin Longmuir and Chris Fagan from the AFL Grand Final. I
look
forward
to hearing these days.
It makes for interesting reading, given the narrative around the the winner of the Norm Smith Medal being Shea Bolton and how he got voted for by the Norm Smith Medal panel of the uh of the game in question. So the coaches have seen it this way Will Ashcroft getting um a total of thirteen point five votes. I say that because if you recall that the grand final is weighted, one point five votes as a weighting of of the grand final votes. In the overall Gary's Medal. We'll get to the actual Gary's Medal winner in a moment. But Will Ashcroft was adjudged the best player on the ground by the coaches. Um on the scale of the normal five, four, three, two, one, he got nine. Yep. Um it's weighted, so he got thirteen point five officially, but just doing the maths on it, he got he got nine.
So one of the coaches gave him five, one of them gave him four. Caleb Sarong came in second in the again in the five four three two one component, he got Mm. Uh so it could have been two fours or a five and a three. Yep. Um That couldn't have been a five and a three. He got two fours. Uh Luke Jackson and Josh Dunkley came in came in next. Now they got six under the weighting, but uh my mats says they then got four votes. Both of them got four votes. Shea Bolton bobs up next with four point five, and on my raw mats, he got three under the five, four, three, two, one. And then the two other names mentioned here are both Dane Zorco and Hayden Young, who both got one point five votes under the grand final scale, which means they both got one vote in the in the old system.
So The identification of those names, Johnny, we not that we're trying to say that we're the oracles on this, but they're the names we discuss in about the order we discuss. Exactly. And yeah.
Why did Josh Dunkley's coach votes add to the Norm Smith Medal debate?
So The one that's
acknowledged here is of Jackson, but Dunkley. Dunkley is acknowledged here by the coaches where and I know it's a late call by people saying, Oh well, Josh Dunkley should be should have been in the mix, but no one was talking about Josh Dunkley on Saturday Saturday night after the game.
Yeah. And the fact that he's got six votes, which means he he got four. Uh it's possible that both coaches gave him recognition somewhere. It's possible because we don't get the breakdown individually. And we can work out Ashcroft got a five and a four on on this scale. We can work that out. Yep. Uh the rest is a little bit open to s to conjecture as to whether it was both coaches or just the the one. I mean clearly Zorko and Young both got a vote and maybe Chris Fagan gave it to Zorko and maybe Long Meal gave it to Young. But who knows? I mean that would be the case. But I I think that's uh a a better reflection, Marty. John O and I discussed this off the top of our time together and I'm not one to to shoot down Shea Bolton's game.
It was a it was a very good game of the five years. We said that at the start we're not
and he's and he's highlighted here as a s really strong performance in the grand final. But the way we judged it, Damo, and Marty would love your opinion, is that we had Ashcroft as the the number one player.
Could Norm Smith Medal voters change their votes after the final siren?
Well, I certainly did. Um you just look at that, and this is what has always been one that I always um wrestle with on grand final day. Um is and I don't know, we're led to believe sometimes the award might go be adjudged earlier or they make their decision earlier. Like I heard Chris Reagan talk about it in his press conference. Yeah. Yeah, I I can
jump in there, Marty. I I've done it twice and that was twenty five years apart and on both occasions it was made really clear to me that I didn't have to vote until the siren.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did the coaches rank Will Ashcroft in the Grand Final votes?
0:04–2:09
2
Why did Josh Dunkley's coach votes add to the Norm Smith Medal debate?
2:09–3:15
3
Could Norm Smith Medal voters change their votes after the final siren?
3:15–5:36
4
Who votes on the Norm Smith Medal, and should the process have clearer rules?
5:36–7:24
5
Did Will Ashcroft's late-game impact shape the Norm Smith Medal discussion?
7:24–9:25
6
How did Will Ashcroft finish ahead in the Gary Ayres Medal voting?
9:25–10:23
7
Is Will Ashcroft becoming the AFL's ultimate September star, and how does he compare with Nick Daicos?
10:23–11:03
8
Should September finals performances count more in AFL awards and All Australian selection?
11:03–12:48
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