Michael Tuck Medal

Since 1992, the Michael Tuck Medal has been awarded to the best-and-fairest player in the AFL Pre-season Cup Final. It is named after Michael Tuck, the current AFL games record holder who played 426 senior matches for the Hawthorn Hawks between 1972 and 1991.

Recipients

Year	Player	Team
1992	Paul Hudson	Hawthorn
1993	Gavin Wanganeen	Essendon
1994	Gary O'Donnell	Essendon
1995	Mick Martyn	North Melbourne
1996	Nicky Winmar	St Kilda
1997	Craig Bradley	Carlton
1998	Wayne Carey	North Melbourne
1999	Paul Salmon	Hawthorn
2000	Mark Mercuri	Essendon
2001	Adam Kingsley	Port Adelaide
2002	Nick Stevens	Port Adelaide
2003	Andrew McLeod	Adelaide
2004	Robert Harvey	St Kilda
2005	Brendan Fevola	Carlton
2006	Simon Goodwin	Adelaide
2007	Nick Stevens	Carlton
2008	Jason Gram	St Kilda
2009	Joel Selwood	Geelong
2010	Barry Hall	Western Bulldogs
2011	Heath Shaw	Collingwood

Italics - denotes winner from losing team of that Grand Final.

Trivia

• Adelaide's Simon Goodwin became the first player to win the medal despite playing in the losing side when they were defeated by Geelong in 2006.

• Nick Stevens became the first player to win two Michael Tuck medals when Carlton defeated the Brisbane Lions in 2007, after previously winning it whilst playing for Port Adelaide in 2002.

• 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."

• There is yet to be a player to win both the Michael Tuck and Norm Smith Medals in the same year.