FOTHERGILL-ROUND-MITCHELL MEDAL
  • Background
  • Criteria
  • List of Winners

BACKGROUND

Named in honour of the three players to win the Liston Trophy (or one of its predecessors) and the Brownlow Medal.

DES FOTHERGILL
1940 - Brownlow Medal (Collingwood)
1941 - VFA Medal and Recorder Cup (Williamstown)

BARRY ROUND
1981 - Brownlow Medal (South Melbourne)
1987 - Liston Trophy (Williamstown)

SAM MITCHELL
2002 - Liston Trophy (Box Hill)
2012 - Brownlow Medal (Hawthorn)*

*NOTES...
*Mitchell originally finished in second place in the 2012 Brownlow Medal count, tied with Trent Cotchin (Richmond) and four votes behind Essendon's Jobe Watson.

However, Watson was later found guilty of breaching WADA's anti-doping code (along with 33 of his teammates from that season), and in November 2016 was retrospectively ruled ineligible by the AFL Commission. Mitchell and Cotchin were subsequently announced as joint winners of the 2012 Brownlow Medal.

In July 2018 the VFL announced the Fothergill-Round Medal would be officially renamed the Fothergill-Round-Mitchell Medal.

CRITERIA

The criteria for the award has changed over the years: originally it was presented to the best young talent in the VFA, then during the early-2000s it was presented to the young player most likely to be drafted to the AFL.

It is currently awarded to the best VFA-VFL player under 23 years of age.

LIST OF WINNERS

YEAR

WINNER

CLUB

1989

 

Chris Owen

Preston

1990

 

Mattheu Quirk

Oakleigh

1991

 

Ron Delulio

Box Hill

1992

 

Julian Shanks

Williamstown

1993

 

Adam Williams

Sandringham

1994

 

Bruce Cohen

Box Hill

1995

 

Mark Porter

Coburg

1996

 

Paul Dooley

Williamstown

1997

 

James Puli

Werribee

1998

 

Andrew Shipp

Springvale

1999

 

Mark Passador

Springvale

2000

 

Michael Swann

Port Melbourne

2001

 

Kristian De Pasquale

Coburg

2002

 

Michael Firrito

Box Hill

2003

 

Aaron Davey

Port Melbourne

2004

 

Adam Fisher

Sandringham

2005

 

Jackson Barling

Williamstown

2006

 

Jason Davenport

Geelong Reserves

2007

 

Shane Valenti

Sandringham

2008

 

Robin Nahas

Port Melbourne

2009

 

Michael Barlow

Werribee

2010

 

Michael Hibberd

Frankston

2011

 

Ahmed Saad

Northern Bullants

2012

 

Dean Towers

North Ballarat

2013

 

Kane Lambert

Northern Blues

2014

 

Nic Newman

Frankston

2015

 

Adam Marcon

Williamstown

2016

 

Luke Ryan

Coburg

2017

 

Bayley Fritsch

Casey Demons

FOTHERGILL-ROUND-MITCHELL MEDAL

2018

 

Josh Corbett

Werribee

2019

 

Jake Riccardi

Werribee

 

Written and researched by David Eastman
First published 27/6/2014
Last updated 9/10/2019