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Michael Tuck Medal

AFL Pre-season Cup Final sportsmanship award (1992-2013)

The Michael Tuck Medal was awarded to the best-and-fairest player in the AFL Pre-season Cup Final. The award was presented annually between 1992 and 2013; since 2014, the award has not been presented due to the preseason being structured without a final. It is named after Michael Tuck, who played 426 senior matches for between 1972 and 1991 and was the VFL/AFL games record holder until being surpassed by Brent Harvey in Round 19, 2016.

Recipients

Year	Player	Team
1992		Hawthorn
1993		Essendon
1994		Essendon
1995		North Melbourne
1996		St Kilda
1997		Carlton
1998		North Melbourne
1999		Hawthorn
2000		Essendon
2001		Port Adelaide
2002		Port Adelaide
2003		Adelaide
2004		St Kilda
2005		Carlton
2006	**	Adelaide
2007		Carlton
2008		St Kilda
2009		Geelong
2010		Western Bulldogs
2011		Collingwood
2012		Adelaide
2013		Brisbane Lions

Italics - denotes winner from losing team of that Grand Final.

Trivia

Adelaide's Simon Goodwin is the only player to win the medal despite playing in the losing side when they were defeated by Geelong in 2006.
Nick Stevens is the only player to win two Michael Tuck medals. He won the award in 2002 with , and in 2007 with .
Tuck committed an amusing faux pas in 2005, when he himself accidentally referred to the medal as the Norm Smith Medal while presenting it (the Norm Smith Medal is awarded to the best-and-fairest player in the premiership season grand final). He has alluded to this mistake prior to awarding the medal in future seasons by emphasising his name; in 2009 his words were "my name is Michael Tuck, and the winner of the Michael Tuck Medal is Joel Selwood."

References

(2010). "AFL Record Season Guide 2010".

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