The Jack Dyer Medal is an Australian rules football award given each season to the player or players adjudged best and fairest for the Richmond Football Club.
The award is now named in honour of Jack Dyer, a champion ruckman who won the award five times from 1937 to 1946. He was one of the inaugural "Legends" inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996.
Other multiple winners have been Kevin Bartlett (five times); Wayne Campbell and dual Brownlow Medallist Roy Wright (four times each); Ron Branton, Neville Crowe, Geoff Raines, Brownlow Medallist Bill Morris, and Trent Cotchin (three times each). Basil McCormack, Jack Titus, Leo Merrett, Des Rowe, Dave Cuzens, Royce Hart, Maurice Rioli, Dale Weightman, Matthew Knights, Tony Free, Joel Bowden, Brett Deledio, Dustin Martin, and most recently Jack Riewoldt have all won the award twice.
Bill Morris, Roy Wright, Ian Stewart, Trent Cotchin and Dustin Martin all won the best and fairest in the same years that they won their Brownlow Medals at Richmond, while Stan Judkins, Brownlow Medallist in 1930, never won the club's award.
The voting system as of the 2023 AFL season, consists of all the team’s players on match day receiving a rating from 0-5 based on their overall performance. The match committee assesses each player’s offensive, defensive and contest impacts on the game. After those game phases have been analysed, the 0-5 rating is given as a joint match committee decision. Votes are not allocated for what the match committee deems a below-average performance.[1]
Recipients
edit| ^ | Denotes current player |
| + | Player won Brownlow Medal in same season |
Multiple winners
edit| ^ | Denotes current player |
| Player | Medals | Seasons |
|---|---|---|
| Jack Dyer | 5 | 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1946 |
| Kevin Bartlett | 1967, 1968, 1973, 1974, 1977 | |
| Wayne Campbell | 4 | 1995, 1997, 1999, 2002 |
| Roy Wright | 1951, 1952, 1954, 1957 | |
| Ron Branton | 3 | 1960, 1961, 1962 |
| Trent Cotchin | 2011, 2012, 2014 | |
| Neville Crowe | 1963, 1964, 1966 | |
| Bill Morris | 1945, 1948, 1950 | |
| Geoff Raines | 1978, 1980, 1981 | |
| Joel Bowden | 2 | 2004, 2005 |
| Dave Cuzens | 1958, 1959 | |
| Brett Deledio | 2008, 2009 | |
| Dustin Martin | 2016, 2017 | |
| Tony Free | 1989, 1993 | |
| Royce Hart | 1969, 1972 | |
| Matthew Knights | 1990, 1992 | |
| Basil McCormack | 1927, 1928 | |
| Leo Merrett | 1942, 1944 | |
| Jack Riewoldt | 2010, 2018 | |
| Maurice Rioli | 1982, 1983 | |
| Des Rowe | 1951, 1955 | |
| Jack Titus | 1929, 1941 | |
| Dale Weightman | 1986, 1987 |
Removed winners
editFollowing a nineteen-year investigation undertaken by members of the Richmond Historical Committee, it was announced in November 2019 that their research into the history of the award had discovered that 18 of the 22 awards between 1911 and 1936 (none had been listed in 1912, 1915, and 1930–1931) were not actually presented at the time but were instead erroneously added retrospectively in 1988 and 1991.[24]
This caused a degree of controversy, as this resulted in Jack Dyer's record tally of six medals being reduced to five (with his 1932 award being removed), equal with Kevin Bartlett. In addition, Ray Martin also had his back-to-back medals reduced to one (his 1934 award was removed), and a further twelve players—including those from the club's earliest years in the VFL/AFL, members of the club's 1920–1921 premiership teams, and teammates of Dyer—had all of their awards removed from the records. [25]
References
edit- General
- Hogan, Paul (1996). The Tigers Of Old. Melbourne, VIC: Richmond Football Club. ISBN 9780646187488.
- Specific
- ^ "Tom the top Tiger of 2022". 27 September 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah "Jack Dyer Medal short passes". RichmondFC.com.au. Bigpond. 6 October 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ a b c d e Greenberg, Tony (1 June 2016). "Top team of Tassie Tigers". RichmondFC.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ "How the best was won". The Age. Fairfax Media. 7 October 2002. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ Johnson, Lyall (30 December 2003). "Coughlan-inspired Tigers". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ a b "Bowden again hailed Richmond's best". ABC Online. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 16 September 2005. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ "100 Club: Kane Johnson". AFC.com.au. Bigpond. 13 June 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ "Deledio claims Jack Dyer Medal". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. 17 September 2008. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ Australian Associated Press (16 September 2009). "Richmond star Brett Deledio claims second straight Jack Dyer medal". Fox Sports (Australia). News Corp Australia. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ Horan, Michael (2 September 2010). "Jack Riewoldt wins Jack Dyer Medal as Richmond's best and fairest". Herald Sun. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ McNicol, Adam (13 September 2011). "Cotchin named top Tiger". AFL.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ "Trent Cotchin wins second Jack Dyer Medal as Richmond best-and-fairest". Herald Sun. News Corp Australia. 6 September 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ Murnane, Matt (1 October 2013). "Daniel Jackson wins Jack Dyer Medal". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ Matthews, Bruce (30 September 2014). "Trent Cotchin wins Jack Dyer Medal, becomes youngest Richmond player to win three Best and Fairests". Herald Sun. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ Cherny, Daniel (6 October 2015). "Alex Rance wins Tigers' best and fairest". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ Cherny, Daniel (9 September 2016). "Dustin Martin wins Jack Dyer medal as Richmond best and fairest". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
- ^ Colangelo, Anthony (2 October 2017). "Dustin Martin wins 2017 Jack Dyer Medal to be crowned RIchmond's best and fairest once again". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- ^ Phelan, Jennifer (2 October 2018). "Riewoldt claims his second Jack Dyer Medal". afl.com.au. telstra media. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
- ^ Greenberg, Tony (1 October 2018). "Prestia captures Jack Dyer Medal". richmondfc.com.au. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ Greenberg, Tony (26 October 2020). "Short secures Jack Dyer Medal". richmondfc.com.au. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ^ Greenberg, Tony (26 August 2021). "Grimes grabs Jack Dyer Medal". Richmond. Telstra.
- ^ Black, Sarah (3 October 2023). "It's Timmy time: Star recruit takes out Tigers' best and fairest". AFL.com.au.
- ^ Greenberg, Tony (1 October 2024). "Rioli's Jack triumph".
- ^ "Historical records amended after investigation". richmondfc.com.au. 29 November 2019. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
- ^ McCallum, Nick; Valencich, Glenn (29 November 2019). "Richmond bombshell stuns 'disappointed' family of club icon Jack Dyer". 7NEWS.com.au. Retrieved 1 December 2019.