Michael Tuck Medal

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English The Michael Tuck Medal was awarded to the best-and-fairest player in the AFL 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, who played 426 senior matches for Template:AFL Haw between 1972 and 1991 <ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and was the VFL/AFL games record holder until being surpassed by Brent Harvey in Round 19, 2016.

Recipients

Year	Player	Team
1992	Template:Sortname	Hawthorn
1993	Template:Sortname	Essendon
1994	Template:Sortname	Essendon
1995	Template:Sortname	North Melbourne
1996	Template:Sortname	St Kilda
1997	Template:Sortname	Carlton
1998	Template:Sortname	North Melbourne
1999	Template:Sortname	Hawthorn
2000	Template:Sortname	Essendon
2001	Template:Sortname	Port Adelaide
2002	Template:Sortname	Port Adelaide
2003	Template:Sortname	Adelaide
2004	Template:Sortname	St Kilda
2005	Template:Sortname	Carlton
2006	Template:Sortname	Adelaide
2007	Template:Sortname	Carlton
2008	Template:Sortname	St Kilda
2009	Template:Sortname	Geelong
2010	Template:Sortname	Western Bulldogs
2011	Template:Sortname	Collingwood
2012	Template:Sortname	Adelaide
2013	Template:Sortname	Brisbane Lions

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 Template:AFL, and in 2007 with Template:AFL Car.
• Tuck committed an amusing faux pas in 2005, when he himself accidentally referred to the medal as the Norm Smith Medal 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."