McKay was at Adelaide Oval on Friday night to enjoy the Power’s big win over the Blues.
He gave these reviews of his top five.
The opinions below are those of McKay and not necessarily the club.
Macca’s Top Five
Robbie Gray
For 2 hours in the car on the way home I kept thinking how do I attack his review? What is left to be said than I haven’t said already on Robbie this year? He's just a superstar. I almost get emotional thinking about how damn good he has been this season and coming from where he was 2 years ago with that horrible injury. Like Hammer, we all knew his best was incredible, but it was his body that was letting him down. Great 2009, injury riddled 2010, great 2011, knee injury 2012. He was nearly there last year, but he's put all the pieces of his game together this year. For him to win the coaches MVP, which it looks like he definitely will now, is such a fantastic achievement for one of the real underrated players of our game. As for his game last night, what do you say? There were about a dozen times where he just left me breathless with some of his clearance and evasive work in the middle. Was great to see him amongst the goals again and he had another 3 assists to add to that pile as well. We've seen our mids have some great years in our AFL journey so far. Stevens 2001, Francou 2002, Burgoyne 2006, Cornes 2007, Boak 2013. Gray 2014 is just about the best of the lot.
Tom Jonas
I thought he was bloody fantastic tonight and on par with Robbie Gray for BOG. Thats how highly I rated his game. He literally wasn't able to be passed by Carltons midfielders. Every time the ball went near TJ he won it, and got it going our direction again. He is the reason why O'Shea and Broady didn’t have to do much, TJ was doing it all for them! Whilst TJ has done some great shut down defensive jobs before, I'd say this was his best game at AFL level. Stunning performance.
Hamish Hartlett
Another damn good performance by Hammer and a very selfless one as well. Pin pointed teammates inside 50 a lot when he could have been having pings from outside 50. Had a great first half and didn’t really let up after half time either. Is arguably the form player of our team at the moment. It’s great to see him gain that consistency than he really needed to add to his game. We all knew his best was incredible, but he had to show it a lot more often. Now he is and he is such a damaging player.
Travis Boak
Just another very good match from our captain. Led by example in the middle and really ensured we stayed switched on through the middle two quarters when it may have been easy for us to sit back on a bit of a lead and get complacent. Has had a mighty season, probably better than his year last year. The perfect captain.
Jake Neade
How good is Jakey Neade? Seriously, how good is Jakey Neade? Damn good I say. His last three weeks have been sensational and he's a new player to the one that was struggling earlier in the year in the SANFL. Got his confidence back and has now shown that in the AFL side too. Just always seems to be there. Whether it’s laying a tackle, winning a ground ball or delivering well inside 50, he's always at the right spot. Perfect crumber.
