At the Sydney AFL best and fairest dinner last night, I was honored to present a former team mate, Alex Goodall with the Howarth medal, then was filled with pride as he backed it up by winning the Phelan medal for the best player in the competition.
Alex was just a kid when he started playing first grade for Pennant Hills, he was this stocky little unit whose skills were rough around the edges, but during games he would throw himself into situations that I thought were far too dangerous to even consider. After spending the next few seasons picking "Cheese" up from off the bottom of packs, he earned himself the trait that good footballers seem to share...reliability. The gap between Alex's best game and his worst game is tiny - every time he runs out, you know what you're going to get from him.
So congratulations the Goods Factor for the Phelan, and I couldn't think of anyone I would rather have presented the Howarth medal to.
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