TalkingCarlton :: View topic - Murphy wins AFLPA....

the problem with the academy awards is that you get a lot of friends voting for friends situations. take russell crowe and a beautiful mind, easily best actor of the year...the film won best picture, best director and best actress (or was it supporting actress?), surely then it would stand to reason that the lead of the film would win best actor....no...no it didnt. he had won the year before for gladiator. denzel washington was up for training day, a good performance even a great performance, but it was not anywhere near that of crowe's. the academy awards has a history of handing out 'retrospective oscars', denzel probably should have won for hurricane and possibly even philidelphia. crowe was more deserving in the insider IMO. so on and so forth. you get one (not always, see adrian brody and the pianist) for not just the performance ur nominated for, but the ones that preceeded it. i once saw denis leary (a member of the academy) say he would vote for a friend even if out of the 5 or 6 they gave the least impressive performance. im sure that happens too much.

i agree that the AAs are seen as more prestigious, but the golden globes, voted for by the hollywood foreign press get a bad rap IMO.

Author:	BrizzyBlue [ Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:18 pm ]
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......Best First Year Player Award. Won in a landslide from that little shiela Thomas from the Colliwobbles.

Author:	SA Blue [ Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:54 pm ]
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Great effort Can't wait to see more of him next year.

Author:	bluehotel [ Fri Sep 29, 2006 10:01 pm ]
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Hopefully 24 or so games worth of the regular and final seasons

Author:	Wojee [ Fri Sep 29, 2006 11:24 pm ]
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BrizzyBlue wrote: ......Best First Year Player Award. Won in a landslide from that little shiela Thomas from the Colliwobbles. That's because Murphy is a finer footballer than Thomas.

Author:	true_blue3 [ Fri Sep 29, 2006 11:36 pm ]
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Wojee wrote: BrizzyBlue wrote: ......Best First Year Player Award. Won in a landslide from that little shiela Thomas from the Colliwobbles. That's because Murphy is a finer footballer than Thomas. NO WAAYY!! just kidding mate.

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Author:	Orangewhip [ Fri Sep 29, 2006 11:37 pm ]
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Guess what? ! ! !

Author:	Wild Blue Yonder [ Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:38 am ]
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Marc Murphy!!!!!!

Author:	Jarusa [ Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:44 am ]
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Gibbs should have won.

Author:	The Tyrant [ Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:45 am ]
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After they annonced his name, they said "Amen"

Author:	magic [ Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:08 am ]
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I'm crying, MURPHYYYYYYY

Author:	slow_mo [ Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:27 pm ]
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Well done Murph, well deserved. What an honour to be recognised by your peers.

Author:	Kaptain Kouta [ Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:16 pm ]
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slow_mo wrote: Well done Murph, well deserved. What an honour to be recognised by your peers. Definitely. The peer awards, surely are more a tru indication of a player's quality than awards given by partisan judges like the Rising Star...

Author:	tommi [ Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:01 pm ]
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The Murph of Murphs...........! kindest regards tommi

Author:	Blues2005 [ Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:00 pm ]
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Kaptain Kouta wrote: slow_mo wrote: Well done Murph, well deserved. What an honour to be recognised by your peers. Definitely. The peer awards, surely are more a tru indication of a player's quality than awards given by partisan judges like the Rising Star... Yep agree 100%. I know the Brownlow Medal/Rising Star etc awards are a tradition and I hope they stay but I think there is a good case that the MVP award is a higher accolade for a player to win than a medal like the Brownlow. Look at the Oscars and the Golden Globes for instance. The Oscars are voted on by the academy, which consists mainly of your fellow actors. They are (in my opinion rightly) considered to be a higher award than the Golden Globes, which are great to win I'm sure but voted on by journalists. The point is that the award voted on by your peers is ranked the higher of the two. But for reasons I suppose of tradition, the award not voted on by your peers is the considered the highest individual award in the AFL.

Author:	bondiblue [ Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:51 pm ]
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Brizzy declared Quote: ......Best First Year Player Award. That's fantastic news. He was obviously the best by all critics based on games played. Unfortnately he didn't play enough games to win the Rising Star; forget about Thomas, I wonder how Pearce feels to have Murphy's award? Fev suggest in The Age today that it's a done deal that Murphy will be captain of this club [in 2-3 years]. He's a beauty. If Gibbs is as good as him and pick 17 half as good as him, then we've got our future in quality hands; add Walker and Kennedy to that. Drool.

Author:	true_blue3 [ Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:03 pm ]
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fevstheman_88 wrote: well done Murph, if you played more games you would have won the rising star aswell, hope they change the rules of the rising star:only first year players!!! retrospective medal?? i think we've heard enough about them in the last couple of weeks.

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Author:	fevstheman_88 [ Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:59 pm ]
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well done Murph, if you played more games you would have won the rising star aswell, hope they change the rules of the rising star:only first year players!!!

Author:	seanpb [ Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:37 pm ]
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the problem with the academy awards is that you get a lot of friends voting for friends situations. take russell crowe and a beautiful mind, easily best actor of the year...the film won best picture, best director and best actress (or was it supporting actress?), surely then it would stand to reason that the lead of the film would win best actor....no...no it didnt. he had won the year before for gladiator. denzel washington was up for training day, a good performance even a great performance, but it was not anywhere near that of crowe's. the academy awards has a history of handing out 'retrospective oscars', denzel probably should have won for hurricane and possibly even philidelphia. crowe was more deserving in the insider IMO. so on and so forth. you get one (not always, see adrian brody and the pianist) for not just the performance ur nominated for, but the ones that preceeded it. i once saw denis leary (a member of the academy) say he would vote for a friend even if out of the 5 or 6 they gave the least impressive performance. im sure that happens too much. i agree that the AAs are seen as more prestigious, but the golden globes, voted for by the hollywood foreign press get a bad rap IMO.

Author:	The Duke [ Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:52 am ]
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seanpb wrote: the problem with the academy awards is that you get a lot of friends voting for friends situations. take russell crowe and a beautiful mind, easily best actor of the year...the film won best picture, best director and best actress (or was it supporting actress?), surely then it would stand to reason that the lead of the film would win best actor....no...no it didnt. he had won the year before for gladiator. denzel washington was up for training day, a good performance even a great performance, but it was not anywhere near that of crowe's. the academy awards has a history of handing out 'retrospective oscars', denzel probably should have won for hurricane and possibly even philidelphia. crowe was more deserving in the insider IMO. so on and so forth. you get one (not always, see adrian brody and the pianist) for not just the performance ur nominated for, but the ones that preceeded it. i once saw denis leary (a member of the academy) say he would vote for a friend even if out of the 5 or 6 they gave the least impressive performance. im sure that happens too much. i agree that the AAs are seen as more prestigious, but the golden globes, voted for by the hollywood foreign press get a bad rap IMO. Didn't Campo win a golden globe for his efforts in "Smacked in the mouth on the half forward flank" a 2005 epic of a fraud embezzeling money from his employer.