Essendon will livestream its 2025 Crichton Medal count from CENTREPIECE on Thursday, October 2.
Looking back on 2025, the Bombers will crown their best and fairest and celebrate individual accomplishments from the campaign, including other awards such as the Lindsay Griffiths Rising Star and Adam Ramanauskas Most Courageous Player.
Tune in on the essendonfc.com.au homepage from 7:15pm AEST on Thursday night to catch all the action.
Predictions
1st Roberts
2nd Merrett
3rd McGrath
Best first year Kako
Most improved Goldstein
Best Clubman Langford
McGrath will win it
LOL
But in all seriousness, we’ve had a good group of 1st year kids, but I can’t think of anyone who is beyond their first year who really improved. Maybe Caldwell for half a year? Zach Reid had his best run of games… Prior got better as the season went on, but again it’s his first year with us and I’m not sure what the eligibility is…
Predictions
1st Merrett
2nd Roberts
3rd Martin
4th Durham
5th McGrath
6th Redman
7th Duursma
8th Kako
9th Caldwell
10th Reid
Best first year player: Angus Clarke
Most improved Archie Roberts
Best Clubman: Andy McGrath
You reckon McGrath is going to finish behind Nic Martin??? Despite playing 8 more games? Well 7, but essentially 8 as Martin did his knee and was wiped out of a further game.
It’s well known I’m not exactly his biggest cheerleader but I’d be staggered if McGrath didn’t finish top 2 this year purely through a combination of him playing every game, playing about half of them to an ok-decent standard and just about every other player of any sort of caliber going down injured or suspended (Durham) for long stretches.
How does Kako come 8th in the bnf but Clarke gets best first year player.
Martin would have been in the top 2 like Merrett for most of his 16 games - well say 15 then.
McGrath had a few good games, but they were towards the back end…
I could easily be wrong and McGrath could end up second.
Kako played every game works well in the B&F- Clarke only 14 games.
No good can come from this.
Top 10 guess:
1 - Merrett
2 - McGrath
3 - Durham
4 - Roberts
5 - Martin
6 - Caldwell
7 - Duursma
8 - Redman
9 - Wright
10 - Prior
I look forward to my annual watching of a wait screen to ■■■■■■ background music for multiple hours.
Obviously Merrett wins the B&F. He was daylight ahead of our next best this season.
I’ll have a crack:
1 Merrett
2 McGrath
3 Roberts
4 Durham
5 Duursma
6 Redman
7 Martin
8 Prior
9 Wright
10 Kako
Crichton Medal – Zach Merrett
Runner Up – Andrew McGrath
Third Place – Archie Roberts
McCracken Medal – Xavier Duursma
Most Improved Player – Archie Roberts
Adam Ramanauskas Most Courageous Player – Sam Durham
Bruce Heymanson Best Clubman – Nic Martin
Matthew Lloyd Leading Goal Kicker Award – Peter Wright
Lindsay Griffiths Rising Star – Isaac Kako
John Kilby Trainers and Staff Award – Andrew McGrath
You know it’s been an ANNUS HORRIBILIS when Jaxon Prior is finishing top 10 in your B&F
Roberts or a great injustice will have occurred.
Is this a best and fairest award in the traditional sense?
how many players played every game? id say hes a fair chance to do OK. he became a dependable player.
Not bad as Myers winning best young player
Top 10 prediction:
1 Merrett
2 Roberts
3 McGrath
4 Durham
5 Duursma
6 Redman
7 Kako
8 Wright
9 Prior
10 Martin
Booooooo!!!