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Emma Kearney had never won a league best and fairest award in eight seasons playing the game, but the Western Bulldogs AFLW star broke through in emphatic style on Tuesday night.
The premiership midfielder capped a stellar season by taking out the AFLW’s best and fairest award at the W Awards ceremony in Melbourne. Kearney polled three votes in the final round of the season to seal the women’s equivalent of the Brownlow Medal, five votes clear of the rest of the field.
Bulldogs walking on AFLW sunshine despite rain-sodden Ikon Park
“It is really special to be recognised by the umpires, but I think for me this individual award isn’t necessarily won by me, but by the team as a whole,” Kearney said.
“I think my improvement has been a result of the improvement of our team. The contributions from our other midfielders has actually helped my performance, so although it’s an individual award I think it’s based on the team’s performance as well.”
Polling votes in all seven matches of the home and away season, Kearney finished with two best on grounds, three two-vote performances and a further two single-vote games.
She finished ahead of Collingwood’s Chloe Molloy, Fremantle’s Dana Hooker and Greater Western Sydney’s Courtney Gum who all polled nine votes.
The prolific ball winner had the most disposals, gained the most metres, topped the clearances and was equal-first in inside 50s in a brilliant season. Kearney, who also plays cricket for the Melbourne Stars in the WBBL, was also named in the All Australian team.
Her memorable evening came just days after she was a key player in the Dogs’ breakthrough grand final win over the Brisbane Lions. “It’s incredible... it’s just the icing on the cake I guess,” Kearney said.
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“The premiership was one of the sporting highlights of my life. To just celebrate an event like that with 30 teammates... it was a really special occasion and to win an individual award in a premiership year is really special.”
However, the Bulldogs will have a fight on their hands to keep Kearney next season, with expansion club North Melbourne – affiliated with the midfielder’s VFL club Melbourne University – tipped to be keen to lure the uncontracted star. She has been guarded about her future since the Dogs’ grand final win over the Brisbane Lions. “I’m not sure,” Kearney replied when asked if she would be with the club next year after her best and fairest win.
“With all the girls, we’re only contracted for a year so I’m yet to sit down with the club and have conversations with them. So I’m just letting that play out. I’m enjoying the celebrations at the moment from our grand final win. Next week I’ll meet with the club and we’ll have a conversation around what my future looks like.”
Wherever Kearney plays, it will be in a competition that will have evolved after the first two seasons of seven rounds with a grand final at the end. Geelong will also field a team in the AFLW next year, which will alter the regular season, with the league also considering implementing a finals series instead of a single premiership decider.
An extended season will have flow-on effects for Kearney, as she looks to balance football with cricket.
“It’s really hard to tell at the moment,” she replied when asked if she can continue to juggle the two codes. I want to commit fully to both sports if I can, but if I can’t then football will be my choice.”
In other major awards, Carlton’s Tayla Harris won the mark of the year and Melbourne’s Aliesha Newman goal of the year. The Western Bulldogs’ Brooke Lochland was named leading goalkicker and Collingwood’s Molloy won rising star.
THE W AWARDS
AFLW Best and Fairest: Emma Kearney (WB)
Votes: 14 – Kearney (WB), 9 – Molloy (Coll), Hooker (Fre), Gum (GWS)
Rising Star: Molloy (Coll), Goal of the year: Aliesha Newman (Melb), Mark of the year: Tayla Harris (Carl), Leading goalkicker: Brooke Lochland (WB)
2018 AFLW All-Australian team
B: Chloe Molloy (Coll), Kate Lutkins (Bris)
HB: Hannah Scott (WB), Chelsea Randall (Adel, capt), Ebony Antonio (Fre)
C: Dana Hooker (Fre), Emma Kearney (WB), Alicia Eva (GWS)
HF: Elise O’Dea (Mel), Sabrina Frederick-Traub (Bris), Brooke Lochland (WB)
F: Jessica Wuetschner (Bris), Christina Bernardi (Coll)
R: Erin McKinnon (GWS), Courtney Gum (GWS), Daisy Pearce (Melb, vice-capt)
Int: Emily Bates (Bris), Tayla Harris (Carl), Karen Paxman (Melb), Ellie Blackburn (WB), Meg Downie (Melb).
In Australian sport, the best and fairest, or fairest and best in some competitions e.g. West Australian Football League, recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspension for misconduct or breaching the rules during that season.
In the Australian Football League (formerly the VFL), the Brownlow Medal is awarded to the player who, provided he has not been suspended during the season, receives the most votes from the umpires for being the Fairest and Best player in games during the home and away season. In each game, the umpires award three votes to the player they judge to be the best afield in that game, two votes to the second-best player and one vote to the third-best player. The votes are counted at a gala function on the Monday preceding the Grand Final. The eligibility of suspended or reprimanded players due to minor offences to win the award has frequently been questioned.[1][2]
Another 'best and fairest' honour, the Leigh Matthews Trophy, is voted on by the AFL's players and awarded by their trade union, the AFL Players Association. Unlike the Brownlow, players who have served disciplinary suspensions during the season are still eligible to win this award.
The oldest such award is the Magarey Medal, awarded to the 'Fairest and most brilliant' player in the South Australian National Football League. The award was created by William Ashley Magarey—then chairman of the league—and was first awarded in 1898.[3]
| Medal | League | First awarded | Award criteria | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brownlow Medal | Australian Football League | 1924 | Fairest and best | Awarded by the league |
| AFL Women's best and fairest | AFL Women's | 2017 | Fairest and best | Awarded by the league |
| John Eales Medal | Wallabies | 2002 | Best | Awarded by the Australian Rugby Union and Rugby Union Players Association |
| Dally M Medal | National Rugby League | 1980 | Best and fairest | |
| Karyn Murphy Medal | NRL Women's | 2018 | Best and fairest | |
| Johnny Warren Medal | A-League | 1989 | Best and fairest | |
| Julie Dolan Medal | W-League | 1996 | Best and fairest | |
| Sandover Medal | West Australian Football League | 1921 | Fairest and best | Awarded by the league |
| Magarey Medal | South Australian National Football League | 1898 | Fairest and most brilliant | First awarded in 1898, it is the oldest league wide award in Australian rules football |
| J. J. Liston Trophy | Victorian Football League | 1945 | Best and fairest | Between 1923 and the 1941 the Recorder Cup was awarded, and between 1933 and 1940 the VFA Medal was also awarded |
| Grogan Medal | Queensland AFL | 1946 | Best and fairest | The De Little Medal was awarded earlier |
| William Leitch Medal | Tasmanian State League | 1930 | Best and fairest | A previous award also existed |
| Morrish Medal | TAC Cup | 1947 | Best and fairest | The Morrish Medal was also the best and fairest award in the VFL/AFL Under-19s competition which was superseded by the TAC Cup in 1992 |
| Larke Medal | AFL Under 18 Championships, Division 1 | 1976 | Best | |
| Hunter Harrison Medal | AFL Under 18 Championships, Division 2 | 1992 | Best | |
| Phelan Medal | Sydney AFL | Best and fairest | ||
| Baldock Medal | Northern Tasmanian Football League | |||
| Nichols Medal | Northern Territory Football League | 1946 | Best and fairest | |
| Mulrooney Medal | AFL Canberra |
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References[edit]
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- ^Hogan, Jesse (28 September 2011). 'Brownlow shake-up'. The Age. Melbourne.
- ^'Only tweaking likely for Brownlow'. 18 February 2005.
- ^'History of the SANFL'. Archived from the original on 19 June 2010.