SHOULD a player make a Team of the Year after managing just 10 matches?
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Probably not, unless they are as good as the set Jared Brennan put together for Henty this season.
The former AFL player was a human highlights reel with one Swampie supporter chalking him down for seven best afield performances.
It was laughable he polled just four votes in the Azzi medal.
"I've never seen a player run at full pace, bend down and pick the ball up with one hand without losing speed," an opposition player said.
"Brennan just left everyone standing there."
Brennan was picked at half-back in The Border Mail's side with Jeremy Luff, Al Austin, Bronson Schofield, Sam Harris and Jesse Margosis as his fellow defenders.
Austin's selection as Coach of the Year will also raise eyebrows.
While the league named Matt Sharp at the Azzi medal, I've gone for Austin on the back of the Billabong Crows' rapid improvement.
They jumped from four wins to 10 and had their chances to beat preliminary finalists Culcairn in the first week of the finals.
It was the Crows' first finals appearance since joining the Hume league with officials now having a solid base to build on.
A handful of players selected themselves.
Brock-Burrum's Matt Seiter and Nico Sedgwick and Culcairn's Jye Shields were the first three picked after producing brilliant home and away series.
Seiter picked up a record 36 votes in the Azzi, Shields took his game to a new level with improved fitness and Sedgwick was as tough and skillful as ever.
Only eight players - Seiter, Sedgwick, Shields, Harris, Luff, Chris Duck, Dane Hallinan and Steve Jolliffe - have made the side for the second season in a row.
Hallinan has been arguably the player of the finals series.
He kicked goals, took hangers and stepped up whenever coach Josh Hillary needed a spark.
Giant Jack Duck gave up basketball to play football and, after starting the year in attack, was a revelation when thrown into the ruck.
Like all sides, five or so players could consider themselves unlucky.
Osborne's Sam Livingstone had a big second-half of the season, Lockhart pair Jordan Harrington and Abe Wooden were prolific, Murray Magpies defender Hayden Edwards was lionhearted and CDHBU's Cal Butler took out the Power's best and fairest.
The Border Mail's Team of the Year
B: Bronson Schofield (Billabong Crows), Jeremy Luff (Brock-Burrum), Sam Harris (Holbrook)
HB: Jared Brennan (Henty), Al Austin (Billabong Crows), Jesse Margosis (Lockhart)
C: Steve Jolliffe (Howlong), Dane Hallinan (Culcairn), Declan O'Rourke (Osborne)
HF: Connor Galvin (Osborne), Andrew Dess (Holbrook), Chris Duck (Rand-Walbundrie-Walla)
F: Tyson Neander (Brock-Burrum), Adam Prior (Culcairn), Neil Irwin (Lockhart)
Foll: Matt Seiter (Brock-Burrum), Jye Shields (Culcairn), Nico Sedgwick (Brock-Burrum)
Inter: Jack Duck (Rand-Walbundrie-Walla), Matt Sharp (Holbrook), Matt Rava (Osborne), Ben Baker (Howlong)
Coach of the Year: Al Austin (Billabong Crows)