Here are my crappy awards for 2012. I'll also be providing forecasts as to the winners of the 2022 season with my Nostradamus like powers based on the assumption that the National Competitions Review as put forward by the FFV gets up and going.
Player of the year: Dimi Tsiaras. Brad Norton could have won it for inexplicably playing more games then everyone sans Peter Gavalas. Luke Byles would have probably won it if I used a week by week voting system. But Tsiaras when he was playing at defensive mid, seemed to add a bit of cunt to the side. More of him in that position next season please, and less of him pinch hitting in defense as was asked of him in 2012.
2022 winner: Alain Prost Montgomery Trent Spoffington de Beaufort, the latest superstar out of the Xavier/Scotch/St Kevins etc 'my parents were loaded and I play football for South Melbourne' program.
Under 21 player of the year: The Cliff Hussey Memorial Trophy goes to Anthony Giannopoulos. Andrew Cartanos showed something in his stints at the end of the season; I liked Matko Budimir more as the year went on; Nicky Jacobs season was cruelly cut short the week after he bundled in the winner against Southern Stars. But bias propels me to pick 'Gia'. Last year his attitude and leadership qualities stank. This year, he's come along in leaps and bounds in both areas, and he appears to be a less selfish player. I was immensely disappointed he didn't get a run at all in the seniors in 2012.
2022 winner : We won't have under 21s by then. In the words of TISM, if you're not famous by fourteen, you're finished.
Goal of the year: 2012 was a very lean year for spectacular goals at South. So in that spirit, the award goes to Anthony Giannopoulos, for his amazing and sadly not caught on camera scissor against Oakleigh. He could have controlled it, he could have headed it, instead he went for the ridiculous and pulled it off.
2022 winner: After a 55 pass build up, James Spanos Junior, Esq. - inspired by watching Alessandro Del Piero during his Sydney FC stint - will nonchalantly curl one into the top corner.
Best performance: I would have said Oakleigh at home, where we dominated 88 of the 90 minutes, but I preferred Oakleigh away all the way back in round two. After getting beaten up for 30 minutes and being behind, we spent a good hour playing blistering football which made us all think we were due for big things in 2012.
2022 winner : It'll all depend on the KNVB methodology number crunchers.
Best away game of the year: Southern Stars. The chaos when Nicky Jacobs scored the winner was fun.
2022 winner: The Battle of Painkalac Dam against the Elwood City Grebes at the Moggs Creek gala day. Can't wait.
Call of the year: Lot of sadly memorable mentions, mostly originating from the mouth of Steve from Broady - 'the things that keep you up at night', 'get it in the mixer', 'what's for dinner'. But the clear winner had to be 'if they were at Northcote, they would have scored that', said by just about everyone, and by me even in cases and places where relevance was minimal.
2022 winner: In order to facilitate a 'fun, safe and positive environment for our children', all wit, including the sarcastic, withering, snide, sly, offbeat, cynical, existential and beatnik, will be prohibited.
Chant of the year: A few to choose from, but 'quack, quack, quack' from the Mighty Ducks takes the win this season
2022 winner: South Melbourne! (clap, clap, clap) South Melbourne! (clap, clap, clap)
Best after match dinner location: Technically, it was a pre-match dinner location, but Thai Deli on Clarendon Street (next door to the abominable Pizza Hut) was fabulous. Hope be there again soon - being closed on Sundays does make it harder to get there though.
2022 winner : Ontbijtkoek paired with Sisi.
Friends we lost along the way: Clarendon Corner, apparently. I wouldn't write them off so quickly though.
2022 winner : There will be no friends, only parents, and even then, only sometimes.
Barely related to anything highlight of the year: During driveway cricket at Southpole's house, bowling alleged cricket superstar Steve from Broady out for a first ball duck.
2022 winner : Sadly, the above will probably still be the highlight of my miserable existence.
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
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Could've had an "Former player haunts South" award.
ReplyDeleteYusef, Tasevski, Sarkies, Zoric, etc.
Would love to read your future prediction of the farcical circumstances we'll lose a player to a rival.
Did Zoric actually do anything against us? Has improved since coming back from Thailand, but still very much a one trick pony, who wishes he could do half the things that Diaco can pull off. Yusef, nice kid, but bench player at best since his knees got screwed up.
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