stereotype term "breakout season". Gram averaged 20.5 possessions per game in 2006, finishing second in the St Kilda Football Club Best & Fairest Trevor Barker Award. At the conclusion of the season it was announced that Gram had signed for a further two years. He accepted a change to the Number 1 guernsey from the retiring St Kilda legend Justin Peckett. 2008: NAB Cup and Michael Tuck Medal Gram's 2008 started brilliantly. He was awarded the Michael Tuck Medal for his best player on the ground performance during St Kilda FC's 2008 National Australia Bank Cup Premiership. Wins over Richmond, Geelong, Essendon and Adelaide saw the Saints win the tournament. He played in all of St Kilda Football Clubs matches in the 2008 season – averaging 20.5 possessions per game in 25 matches including three finals matches. 2009: Minor Premiership, Grand Final and Norm Smith Medal Controversy Gram played in 21 of St Kilda FC's 22 matches in the 2009 season Home and Away rounds in which St Kilda dominated the competition, qualifying in first position for the 2009 finals, winning the AFL Minor Premiership McClelland Trophy. He averaged 23.9 possessions per game in the 2009 season. St Kilda qualified for the 2009 AFL Grand Final after tough Qualifying and Preliminary finals wins over Collingwood and the Western Bulldogs. St Kilda were initially listed as defeated in the 2009 AFL Grand Final by 12 points by Geelong. The match was then placed under further investigation. Gram was voted equal best player on the field in the 2009 Grand Final. He finished equal on votes in the Norm Smith Medal with Paul Chapman of Geelong, the first ever tie in award history. Chapman was publicly announced as winning the medal during the presentation. It was later publicised that Chapman had won the medal on the countback system, despite the fact that the AFL cancelled its countback system for ties in all awards in 1980, which had immediately affected awards such as the Brownlow Medal and McClelland Trophy. Players who were not declared equal winners of the Brownlow Medal under the countback system prior to it being cancelled were retrospectively declared a joint winner, and presented with a Medal. Chapman was initially publicly announced as being awarded the medal on the basis of a greater number of 3 votes from the voting panel compared to Gram, with Gram being the only player