The 2021 season is done and dusted, so I just want to mention the individual awards that were handed out at a recent Football Tasmania function.
Kasper Hallam, the South Hobart striker, won the NPL Tasmania best-and-fairest award, as well as the player’s player of the year award (I think they call it the NPL MVP Award).
Why do we keep borrowing terms from other sports? For example, MVP is an American term for NFL and NBL, while ‘best on ground’ is a term used in AFL and never in our code of football, where it’s usually referred to as ‘man of the match’, or ‘player of the match’. When have you ever heard of ‘best on ground’ in relation to the EPL? I’m afraid these things irk me, but I’m probably getting old.
I do, however, wish people would stick to terminology that is part of our code of football. I’ve noticed some reports on Slice of Cheese referring to someone ‘booting’ goals. Now that’s a term never used in football (because there are other ways of scoring than using the feet) but common in AFL.
There’s my gripe for the day. Sorry, Kasper, but you fully deserve both awards, whatever they’re called, and I reckon you’re a marvellous player who always has a smile on your dial through thick and thin. Well done! I hope I didn’t take the shine off your awards with my whinging.
Photo: Launceston United's Jessica Robinson. [PlessPix]
The Women’s Super League best-and-fairest award was shared by Kingborough Lions United's Laura Davis and Launceston United’s Jessica Robinson.
The WSL’s MVP was Olympia Warriors’ Inocent Michael.
The WSL Rising Star was Devonport’s Annalee Bidwell and the NPL Tasmania’s Rising Star was Olympia Warriors’ Kyle Vincent.
The Walter Pless Media Award went to Devonport’s Brody Denehey and the MyState WSL Media Award was won by Clarence Zebras’ Zoe Nichols.
As a footnote, although the men’s media award has my name on it, I don’t actually vote unless there is a tie. The votes are cast by Tasmania’s three daily newspapers, the TV stations and a few other football media personnel.
The NPL Golden Glove Award (sounds like a boxing award, doesn’t it?) went to Glenorchy Knights goalkeeper Lachlan Hart, while the WSL equivalent was awarded jointly to Olympia’s Kaycee Ponting and Launceston United’s Sydney Carnie.
The NPL Golden Boot Award for the top goalscorer was won by Devonport’s Brody Denehey with 22 goals.
The WSL Golden Boot Award was shared by Clarence Zebras’ Zoe Nichols and Kingborough Lions United’s Laura Davis with 24 goals apiece.
The NPL Coach of the Year was South Hobart’s Ken Morton and the WSL Coach of the Year was Clarence Zebras’ Ronnie Bolton.
The NPL Tasmania Referee of the Year was Brenton Kopra and the WSL Referee of the Year was Claire Green.
Congratulations to all the winners.
If it wasn’t for someone sharing a link, I wouldn’t have seen all these award winners because I can’t seem to access the Football Tasmania Facebook site. I’m not on Facebook, so perhaps that is why. Is it a private site?
All the other State federations have public Facebook sites which anyone can look at. Why is it a ‘closed shop’ on the Football Tasmania website?
Another mystery and one that does the football public no favours at all.
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There have been some sad losses in Tasmanian football recently.
My condolences go to the families and friends of the following personalities who graced the game in Tasmania and contributed to it:
Graeme Speight (University), Greg Ellis (Kingborough Lions United) and father of Cameron Ellis, a current coach at Kingborough), Tom Kelly (former leading referee, who passed away in England aged in his 90s, and father of Eamonn Kelly), and Robert Bearham (Metro).
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