Bulldogs tied up

by LES EVERETT

THE Herald Medal votes for the last five rounds of the WAFL season were revealed at East Fremantle Football Club last week.

For the second time in the medal's 13 year history two players couldn't be separated with Bulldogs Daniel Gilmore and Shane Tipuamantamerri each polling 44 votes.

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Daniel Gilmore receives the 2005 Herald Medal from Steve Malaxos. Photo by Ben Stanwix.

South Fremantle players dominated the voting with Clint Jones and Toby McGrath filling the third and fourth places ahead of the first Shark Kris Miller, the 2003 winner, on 28.

Gilmore and Tipuamantamerri went into the count as joint leaders and each polled 12 votes in the last five rounds. The big finisher was East Fremantle's Shaun McManus who picked up 17 votes in the last five game for a total of 27.

The voting reflected the fact that the Sharks used more players during the season than the more stable Bulldogs. A total 32 East Fremantle players polled Herald medal votes compared to 23 from South.

The medal was presented by former Shark and current Fremantle development coach Steve Malaxos who was the Herald Medal runner up in 1996 to John Porter. Unfortunately Tipuamantamerri wasn't there to accept his award - he was, we were told, at training - but the packed social room gave Gilmore a fine reception despite the fact that he was in enemy territory.

Gilmore now joins Peter Bell and Paul Hasleby as Herald Medal winners on the Fremantle list.

New Fremantle assistant coach Mark Harvey was there along with draftees Marcus Drum, Robert Warnock and Garrick Ibbotson.

The Herald Docker Award won by Matthew Pavlich was accepted by CEO Cameron Schwab who gave the gathering the news that the young champion had spent the day in hospital after having a minor knee operation.

The other award presented on the night went to the amazing Sharks volunteer Maureen Gathercole who was this year's winner of the Dale Kickett Award.

While admitting to a being a little embarrassed about having the award named after him Kickett said he fully supported recognising the work of volunteers. Kickett said he know had three boys involved in the game and that had brought home to him once again the vital role played by volunteers at all levels of the game.

Herald Medal votes 2005

1. Daniel Gilmore (SF) and Shane Tipuamantamerri (SF) 44

3. Clint Jones (SF) 34

4. Toby McGrath (SF) 31

5. Kris Miller (EF) 28

The rest: Shaun McManus (EF), Joel Sofi (EF) 27; Kasey Green (EF) 26; Brett Peake (EF), Leith Teakle (EF), Evan Hewitt (SF) 20; Damien Gaspar (EF), Haydn North (SF)16; Brent Jones (EF), Ashton Hams (SF) 14; Adam Hay (SF) 13; Nic Chidgzey (EF), Tim Malseed (EF) 11; Theo Adams (SF), Matthew Clucas (SF), Jaymie Graham (SF) 10; Tony Bourke (EF), Andrew McGarry (EF), Patrick Ryder (EF) 9; Kingsley Hunter (EF), Paul Duffield (SF) 8; Brent Staker (EF) 7; Aaron Sandilands (EF), Roger Hayden (SF) 6; Daniel Chidlow (EF), Michael Collica (EF), David Dwyer (EF), Nic Polce (EF), Justin Crawford (SF), David Gault (SF), Ray Smithers (SF), Keren Ugle (SF), Ryan Webb (SF) 5; Matthew Carr (EF), Daniel Dalby (EF), Lucas Fielding (EF), Andrew Swallow (EF), Harry Taylor (EF), Kyle Hams (SF) 4; James Kondarovskis (EF), Toby Stribling (EF), Tommy Corbett-Wynne (SF), Scott Thornton (SF) 3; Rod Tregenza (EF), Ryan Murphy (SF), Andrew Siegert (SF) 2; Mitchell Clark (EF), Daniel Jordan (EF), Joshua Kennedy (EF), Ryan Webster (EF) 1.

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