Classy centreman Mick Mattingly has claimed his second club best and fairest award.
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There were no surprises in the vote count to determine Kyabram Football Club’s best and fairest player this season.
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Classy centreman Mick Mattingly claimed his second club best and fairest award in runaway fashion at the club’s premiership awards night last Saturday.
Based on three judges who award 10 votes for the best player and nine, eight, seven and six for the next four players in each game, Mattingly polled 408 votes, 137 more than the runner-up and co-coach Kaine Herbert, with 271.
Archie Watt (236), Aidan Robinson (231) and Jack Russell (181) rounded out the top five.
Mattingly won the same award, the Allan Vick-Ron McRae Memorial, in 2019, the year he also claimed the Morrison Medal and was a member of Kyabram’s flag-winning side.
Mattingly spent the 2020 to 2023 seasons with West Adelaide in the South Australian Football League and was runner-up in its best and fairest award in 2023, the year before he moved back to recontinue his career with Kyabram.
A back injury restricted him to two games last season but after summer surgery he appeared 14 times for the Bombers this season on his way to playing a huge part in Kyabram’s successful premiership tilt.
He said he felt he had had a good season, which was up with his league medal-winning form of the 2019 season.
Kyabram Football Club senior football final tally saw Mick Mattingly the runaway winner.
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Mattingly was a red-hot favourite to win this season’s Morrison Medal after averaging 35.3 possessions in the 14 games he played but received only 15 votes.
He said he was now looking to help the Bombers win another flag next year.
‘‘Indications are we will have nearly all our premiership players from this year fronting up again, so we should do well again,’’ Mattingly said.
• The reserves best and fairest was won by tireless onballer Sam Vick.
With 203 votes Vick, who joined the Bombers this year to continue a dynasty of Vicks playing with the club over the past 80 years, won ahead of midfielders Cooper Fawcett (203) and Miller Griffiths (191).
Ben Railton (150) and skipper Jayden Fitzgerald (149) rounded out the top five.
• Talented Lachy Carver was a runaway winner for the Under 18s award with 338 votes, 98 votes clear of the runner-up, Charlie Isaac (240), who played several senior games.
Carver also had senior experience this season.
Isaiah Scoble was third with 176 votes followed by skipper Tyler Norman, with 150 votes from limited games, and Ollie Barnett (148).
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