AFL Tasmania's State League General Manager, Shaun Young today released the names of the top 30 vote getters that are in contention for the RACT Insurance State League’s Tassie Medal, the competitions best and fairest award.
Nine of the ten RACT Insurance State League clubs are represented on the list this year, with the South Launceston Football Club leading the way with seven players.
Burnie Football Club has the next most representatives with five.
Two clubs - Clarence and Glenorchy have four each, Lauderdale and Launceston have three players each, North Launceston have two players and Hobart and North Hobart each have one in the running for the competition’s highest individual honour.
The top 30 includes two former Tassie Medallists in Launceston’s Tim Bristow and Glenorchy’s Jaye Bowden along with TSL household names such as Sonny Whiting, Jason Laycock, Allan O’Sign, Darren Banham, Luke Shackleton, Brady Jones, and reigning RACT Insurance player of the year Mitchell Thorp, to name a few.
Next week the list will be reduced to 20 before finally being cut to ten leading into the 2013 RACT Insurance State League Grand Final.
The winner will join past recipients Kurt Heazlewood (2009), Brett Geappen (2010), Tim Bristow (2011) and Jaye Bowden (2012).
RACT Insurance State League General Manager, Shaun Young said, "it is a great effort by the South Launceston Football Club to have seven players in the top 30 and was further vindication of the year the club has had on the field.
"But having nine of the clubs represented in the top 30 is another great endorsement for the competition".
The name “Tassie Medal” was first used by the Australian National Football Council and was awarded to the best and fairest player at Australian National Carnivals contested between 1908 and 1988.
The original “Tassie Medal” was named in honour of an Australian Football administrator, Eric Tassie.
"The RACT Insurance State League version of the “Tassie Medal” is not named in honour of any individual; but is rather used as the common colloquial name for our great state," Young said.
RACT Insurance State League 2013 Tassie Medal Top 30
Kade Munday – Burnie Football Club
Jason Laycock – Burnie Football Club
Luke Shackleton – Burnie Football Club
Rohan Baldock – Burnie Football Club
Darren Banham – Burnie Football Club
Brady Jones – Clarence Football Club
Jake Cox – Clarence Football Club
Cameron Thurley – Clarence Football Club
Russel De Groot – Clarence Football Club
Jaye Bowden – Glenorchy Football Club
Nathan Matthews – Glenorchy Football Club
Zac Webster – Glenorchy Football Club
Rhys Mott – Glenorchy Football Club
James Charlesworth – Hobart Football Club
Jim Dunham – Lauderdale Football Club
Damon Smith – Lauderdale Football Club
Kaine Waller – Lauderdale Football Club
Sam Rundle – Launceston Football Club
Tim Bristow – Launceston Football Club
Sonny Whiting – Launceston Football Club
Gareth Delaney – North Hobart Football Club
Allan O’Sign – North Launceston Football Club
Daniel Roozendaal – North Launceston Football Club
Jay Blackberry – South Launceston Football Club
Mitchell Thorp – South Launceston Football Club
Daniel Johncock – South Launceston Football Club
Zane Brown – South Launceston Football Club
Jobi Harper – South Launceston Football Club
Clinton Drake – South Launceston Football Club
Bart McCulloch – South Launceston Football Club
Last Modified on 02/09/2013 13:13