The Michael Tuck Medal was awarded to the best-and-fairest player in the

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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 Michael Tuck (born 24 June 1953) is a seven-time premiership-winning player, Australian rules footballer with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) / Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL ...

, who played 426 senior matches for between 1972 and 1991 and was the VFL-AFL games record holder until being surpassed by

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in round 19, 2016.

Recipients

''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 The Norm Smith Medal is an Australian rules football award presented annually to the player adjudged the best on ground in the Grand Final of the Australian Football League (AFL). Prior to 1990 the competition was known as the Victorian Football ...

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

{{AFL Pre-season seasons Australian Football League awards Awards established in 1992 1992 establishments in Australia Australian rules football-related lists