Sunday, November 23, 2008

Daniel Barker and Jeff Lavoie take top honours for the Saints in inaugural season


The Québec Saints held their inaugural awards night in Montréal at the Irish Embassy on Saturday the 22nd November after a very promising first season. In the category of Best and Fairest Australian it was Aussie Rules rookie Daniel Barker who took out top honours polling 46 votes in his first year playing organized footy, Runner-up went to veteran Sam Heath who polled 38 votes a mere 1 vote ahead of the underrated workhorse of the Saints Fred Frost who finished on 37. In the Canadian/Non-Australian section it was Québec City's own Jeff Lavoie who ran away with top honours finishing with 46 votes, Second place and Runner-up the London based Brit Tim Adisa in his first venture into Aussie Rules with 39 votes, Ronan Rouxell who was handed the tough position of ruckman at the start of the season showed his class in the position by coming in third in the voting with 37 votes.
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Saints Captain Vincent Pottier took out the 2008 'Most Promising Player' award while the Coach's award was given to Alexandre Rochette who made huge progress throughout the year developing into one of the teams top Canadians. The top goalkicker for 2008 was Saints coach Superboot Anthony Williams. The Saints 2008 Season has now officially come to an end with many exciting times ahead for 2009...