The John Worsfold Medal is an Australian rules football award presented annually to the player(s) adjudged the best and fairest at the West Coast Eagles throughout the Victorian Football League/Australian Football League (VFL/AFL) season.
Sixteen individual players have won the West Coast best and fairest since the award was introduced for West Coast's inaugural 1987 season. The record of the most Club Champion Awards by an individual player is four which is held by Glen Jakovich and Ben Cousins. Both players also share the record for the most consecutive best and fairests, having both won three consecutive awards.
The Club Champion Award was renamed the John Worsfold Medal in 2013,[1] after former premiership-winning captain and coach John Worsfold.
Voting procedure
Various procedures have been used by the match committee to determine the club champion:
- 1987: unknown
- 1988: unknown
- 1989–2001: The match committee collectively award three votes to the best player, two votes to the second-best player and one vote to the third-best player in each match.
- 2002–04: Each member of the match committee rates every player to a maximum of five votes for each match.
- 2005–13: Each member of the match committee rates every player on a 5–4–3–2–1 basis for each match.
- 2014–present: Each member of the match committee rates every player to a maximum of three votes for each match.[2]
Recipients
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![A man with light brown hair in a black jacket jogs across a grassed playing field](Https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Guy_McKenna.jpg/150px-Guy_McKenna.jpg)
![A man with brown hair in a navy blue jacket sits with his hands on his lap](Https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Chris_Judd.jpg/150px-Chris_Judd.jpg)
![A man with brown hair in a blue guernsey with yellow shoulders stands on a grassed playing field](Https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Mark_LeCras_2018.2.jpg/150px-Mark_LeCras_2018.2.jpg)
^ | Denotes current player |
+ | Won Brownlow in that same year |
Multiple winners
![A man with brown hair holds a yellow football on a grassed playing field](Https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Elliot_Yeo_2018.2.jpg/150px-Elliot_Yeo_2018.2.jpg)
^ | Denotes current player |
Player | Medals | Seasons |
---|---|---|
Ben Cousins | 4 | 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 |
Glen Jakovich | 4 | 1993, 1994, 1995, 2000 |
Darren Glass | 3 | 2007, 2009, 2011 |
Chris Judd | 2 | 2004, 2006 |
Guy McKenna | 2 | 1989, 1999 |
Nic Naitanui | 2 | 2020, 2021 |
Luke Shuey | 2 | 2016, 2019 |
Elliot Yeo^ | 2 | 2017, 2018 |
References
- General
- "Honour Roll". westcoasteagles.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
- "West Coast Eagles Club Champion Award". westcoasteagles.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
- Specific
- ^ Quartermaine, Braden (29 November 2013). "Priddis wins Worsfold Medal". Herald Sun.
- ^ "Eric Mackenzie: 2014 John Worsfold Medallist". westcoasteagles.com.au. Bigpond. 4 October 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ a b Robinson, Chris (2 October 2014). "West Coast Eagles standouts Matt Priddis and Eric Mackenzie clear favourites for John Worsfold Medal". Perth Now. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ White, Simon (10 June 2011). "Not happy, John: Worsfold again denied Hall of Fame honour". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ a b "Guy McKenna". AFL Coaches Association. Fox Sports Pulse. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ "Chris Lewis". Australian Football. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Sapienza, Joseph (5 August 2011). "Our West Coast Hall of Fame inductees". Perth Now. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ a b c d "Hall of Fame an honour for Jakovich". westcoasteagles.com.au. Bigpond. 8 May 2008. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Rucci, Michelangelo (19 March 2016). "Don Pyke's vision for his first job as an AFL senior coach is to be very much in the background". The Advertiser. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Lavell, Steven (24 June 2016). "Fitting swan song for old favourite". westcoasteagles.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Washbourne, Michael (1 July 2008). "The 10 greatest players in West Coast Eagles history". Perth Now. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ "Ashely McIntosh". westcoasteagles.com.au. Bigpond. 9 August 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ a b "Ben Cousins, controversial West Coast and Richmond star, retires from AFL". Fox Sports (Australia). News Corp Australia. 17 August 2010. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ "How the best was won". The Age. Fairfax Media. 7 October 2002. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ a b "The Chris Judd file: everything you need to know about star midfielder's career". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. 9 June 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ "Cousins awarded Eagles' best and fairest". ABC Online. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 1 October 2005. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Cowley, Michael (15 May 2009). "How Sydney dealt Glass to the West Coast". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Schmook, Nathan (4 October 2008). "Cox wins Eagles best and fairest". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Clarke, Tim (12 September 2009). "Eagles champion: Glass more than half full". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Chadwick, Justin (11 September 2010). "West Coast sharpshooter Mark LeCras wins West Coast's best and fairest". Perth Now. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Leitch, Chris (9 October 2011). "Glass edges out Priddis to win Eagles B&F". Perth Now. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Schmook, Nathan (5 October 2012). "Young Selwood is best Eagle". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Malcolm, Alex (30 November 2013). "Priddis wins first West Coast best and fairest". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Hagdorn, Kim (4 October 2014). "West Coast Eagles defender Eric Mackenzie awarded John Worsfold Medal for best player". Herald Sun. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Quartermaine, Ben (10 October 2015). "Andrew Gaff upsets Matt Priddis to win West Coast's best-and-fairest". Herald Sun. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Quartermane, Braden (6 October 2016). "West Coast midfielder Luke Shuey caps his finest season by winning his first John Worsfold Medal". Perth Now. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
- ^ King, Travis (7 October 2017). "Former Lion flies high as Eagles' best". Australian Football League. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
- ^ King, Travis (6 October 2018). "Eagle joins greats with back-to-back B&Fs". afl.com.au. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
- ^ Stocks, Gary (4 October 2018). "Second gong for Shuey". westcoasteagles.com.au. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
- ^ Stocks, Gary (20 October 2020). "SNaitanui claims maiden John Worsfold Medal". westcoasteagles.com.au. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ^ Stocks, Gary (16 September 2021). "SNaitanui goes back-to-back". westcoasteagles.com.au. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
- ^ "Barrass joins Eagles elite". westcoasteagles.com.au. 26 August 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ^ "Kelly joins Eagles elite". westcoasteagles.com.au. 2 September 2023. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
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