… On becoming the 15th East Perth player to win the Sandover Medal (making 19 medallists for the club in total) and the first Royal since Ryan Turnbull in 2001.
“Hammer”, Angus Schumacher and Mitch Crowden polled a combined 61 votes.
The top 10 vote-getters were:
26 – Hamish Brayshaw (East Perth)
19 – Luke Meadows (West Perth)
18 – Jesse Turner (Swan Districts), Angus Schumacher (East Perth)
17 – Mitch Crowden (East Perth), Milan Murdock (East Fremantle)
15 – Liam Hickmott (Subiaco)
14 – Jye Bolton (Claremont)
13 – Bailey Rogers (Claremont), Zac Clarke (Subiaco)
Congrats to Hamish and the EPFC on the Sandover success.
The Brayshaw clan are certainly blessed with the sporting gene. From Sticks Brayshaw down to Andrew Brayshaw and all in between, whether it be with a bat/ball in hand or a footy, all are very talented. Got rolled a few times by both Mark and James in under age cricket. Whilst dad/grandad Sticks was a fantastic cricketer, who deserved to play test cricket, how he didn’t, is still bewildering till this very day.
Fantastic. Great result for Hamish and good news for our club.
Well deserved win, such a consistent player in the comps best midfield.
It really is a mid-fielders medal, 9 of the top 10 were mids, only Zac Clarke the outsider. I was expecting Clarke to finish top 5 at least and Eastland to be in the top 10. The last bloke that was anything like a ruckman to win was Delahunty but he played more as a tall mid.
Great clubman and talented player. Well deserved award.
Congratulations to HB on a wonderful achievement.I think here’s a player who maybe wasn’t blessed with the skills of the “stars” of the competition but he always gives 100% and is so determined in every game he plays.Love to see players like that succeed and good on him.Enjoy the accolades.
Well done to Hamish Brayshaw,who the the East Perth board obviously didn’t rate in 2021,when his previous coach attempted to recruit him after he was delisted,and his efforts to rekindle their previous successful relationship which yielded a premiership for the Sandringham Dragons as coach and captain in the elite TAC cup was rebuked,but fortunately in 2022 sanity prevailed when the board relented and agreed to recruit him,and Hamish has more than proven his worth ever since.This is the same board who had no qualms giving the green light to recruit players like Narrier and Elijah Taylor,despite the reluctance of the coach who had reservations with one player in particular,so we have to be very grateful of Scott Jones’s friendship with delisted Dockers Crowden,and North which apparently was instrumental in their decisions to wear the blue and black,as well as the the assistant coach with Wanneroo Amateur connections, who enticed Tedesco and Raykos,have also been very handy additions, and has given the football department,who in previous seasons,have served up more misses than hits,an air of competency.
I had no problem with the Taylor recruitment even though it was a long shot. One thing is for certain finals are hard to win without a star forward or two.
In a perfect world Larry he would’ve been a great pick up,but after I could smell grog on his breath when I was introduced to him at his first night of training,you knew it would be pointless exercise in futility,which concurred with the initial thoughts I had when he returned back to Lathlain after he was de listed by the Swans.
I see wc are going to put their foot down on their employees playing for other wafl clubs next year, so tough decisions for the likes of hamish, rotham and waterman. Interesting times
Another reason to despise Wet Toast even more, DG.
From an EP perspective, I hope that either the EPFC, Bronte Howson or another RPOF (Royal person of influence) can line Hamish up with an equivalent position.
And I hope that WP and Claremont do likewise for Rotham and Waterman.
Going to be interesting to see what happens with him next season if the news report is real.
this almost looks like they are trying to force him to break his contract with East Perth
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I don’t know if Hamish knows a lot about cars,but I can see his working career being “STEERED”towards that direction
Could use the points to recruit a good player to replace him. However his leadership is more important and can’t be replaced.
Tough to replace the current Sandover Medallist and a top class leader. Hope he tells wc to go forth and multiply Larry
Very true DG, the WAFL Eagles will bounce back strongly soon enough and they don’t need him. We don’t have much in the colts or reserves to get excited about. We may sink back down the ladder if we lose a couple of quality players.
To all the EP posters all the best for the festive season .RL,ADGM,et al looking forward to your posts in 2024 and have a great Xmas and a happy new year.
Good on you, TheFeds, I enjoy your thoughts about our great game.
You and I may support fierce rivals, but we - along with all OzFooty posters - have the WAFL at heart.
All the very best to you, your family & friends over Xmas/New Year.
Personally, the best thing about this time of year is back-to-back Tests at the MCG and SCG.