{"id":26727,"date":"2025-07-28T05:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26727\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T05:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:16:10","slug":"fremantle-dockers-forward-murphy-reid-rated-equal-best-on-ground-by-coaches-during-western-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26727\/","title":{"rendered":"Fremantle Dockers forward Murphy Reid rated equal best on ground by coaches during western derby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exciting Fremantle youngster Murphy Reid would have tied for the Glendinning-Allan Medal if Justin Longmuir and Andrew McQualter were voting for the award after the western derby on Saturday.<\/p>\n

In another boost for his AFL Rising Star hopes, Reid polled eight votes for his 23 disposals, 15 score involvements and one goal.<\/p>\n

The half-forward finished third in Glendinning-Allan Medal voting behind Hayden Young and Andrew Brayshaw, but the AFL Coaches Association votes told a different story.<\/p>\n

Longmuir and McQualter were required to submit votes on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis and Reid was locked with Young on eight votes. While individual voting remains confidential, one coach gave Reid five votes and the other handed him three.<\/p>\n

Brayshaw and Michael Frederick both received six votes, while Caleb Serong and Shai Bolton had one vote each.<\/p>\n

Reid has had a wonderful first season in the AFL and is one of the favourites to win the Rising Star award. He is competing with Adelaide\u2019s Daniel Curtin and Brisbane\u2019s Levi Ashcroft for that prize.<\/p>\n

\"MurphyCamera IconMurphy Reid celebrates. Credit: Janelle St Pierre\/AFL Photos\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Longmuir said Reid\u2019s consistency had set him apart from the other contenders this season when speaking after the win and defender Jordan Clark said his teammate reminded him of Collingwood superstar Scott Pendlebury.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sounds like a bit unrealistic comparing him to Scotty Pendlebury but he is a player like that who is not blessed with super speed but he sees the game and is very sharp in his mind,\u201d Clark told The West Australian.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe sees the game very well and he\u2019s very clean. I think he did watch a lot of Scotty Pendlebury growing up, so he\u2019s a very classy little player. I think he\u2019s got a lovely mix that works for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to use it loosely and it\u2019s probably disrespecting Scotty Pendlebury in a way because he\u2019s one of the greatest players in the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you watch him and he\u2019s in positions where you think someone shouldn\u2019t get out of that, but he does. He\u2019s not a fast bloke, he\u2019s not massively built, he\u2019s just clever and classy. I think he thinks and sees the game ahead before people see what is going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FremantleCamera IconFremantle won the western derby. Credit: Ian Munro\/The West Australian<\/p>\n

Collingwood\u2019s Nick Daicos extended his lead for the AFLCA award with a best on ground performance against Richmond. Noah Anderson is now four votes behind him after picking up eight votes in Gold Coast\u2019s win over Brisbane,<\/p>\n

Serong has dropped from third to fourth after Geelong\u2019s Bailey Smith overtook him and is now 14 votes behind Daicos with four games remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exciting Fremantle youngster Murphy Reid would have tied for the Glendinning-Allan Medal if Justin Longmuir and Andrew McQualter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,10124,588,85,7067],"class_list":{"0":"post-26727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-fremantle-dockers","14":"tag-sport","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-west-coast-eagles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}