Congratulation Sam Walsh - B+F winner 2021

[kruddler]

Not really. The award is a joke and pretty much fixed.

1. Not all clubs even award B+F bonuses. Ross Lyon ditched it when he was coaching.
2. Not all coaches, if any, would be aware of player triggers even if they did.
3. Just because it might've happened once, at one club, doesn't mean it happens at every club, all the time.
4. Different voting systems make things much more difficult to manipulate, and easy to catch out excessive votes.
5. All that being said, and i could go on, lets simply look at this.

Jim Park top 10 vs (Club B+F placing)
5895 - Walsh, Sam (217) - (1st)
3205 - Weitering, Jacob (163) - (2nd)
1832 - Curnow, Edward (380) - (5th)
1634 - Cripps, Patrick (5) - (4th)
1538 - Saad, Adam (5) - (6th)
1538 - McKay, Harrison (0) - (3rd)
1457 - Jones, Liam (0) - (8th)
1152 - Kennedy, Matthew (37) - (unknown)
1024 - Silvagni, Jack (0) - (10th)
765 - Newman, Nicholas (226) - (unknown)

FWIW,
Plowman was 7th and finished 17th in Jim Park
Betts was 9th and finished 12th in Jim Park


Reading between the lines, you are suggesting that Teague looked after his mate Betts to sneak him into the top 10....even though we had him 12th.

If thats incorrect, then your theory is Plowman is the one we give extra votes too (which holds more water based on results than Betts) but that theory doesn't work either because Plowman has been getting more votes than we expect over multiple coaches now and that kind of collusion is something we are not capable of without it being plastered all over the front page.

So i go back to theory 1.....and answer your other question as to why he was delisted. I think that answer is a relatively simple one. He has played 350-odd games and turns 35 next month. Age catches up with everyone!