2010 Melbourne Football Club season
Introduction The '''2010 Melbourne Football Club season''' was the club's 111th year in the VFL/AFL since it began in 1897.Melbourne played 14 games at the MCG, 10 of which were home games. They also played a home match at TIO Stadium in Darwin against Port Adelaide in Round 9.It was Dean Bailey's third year as senior coach. James McDonald continued as the club's captain until retiring at the end of the year.After a terrible start to the season getting thrashed to  by 56 points, Melbourne began to lift their work-rate in games and indicate that they were beginning to successfully maneuver Dean Bailey's coaching-style. They began to play a fast and exciting brand of football with heavy use of the corridor and playing-on in subsequent weeks. Furthermore, unlike the 3 previous seasons, Melbourne began to cut heavy defects back to smaller deficits by preventing their opponents from scoring. This was due to Melbourne constantly gained running momentum when moving the ball outside of their defensive 50.Melbourne's season was headlined by being constantly competitive on a weekly basis only losing one more time for the season by over 50 points to  in Round 10.Melbourne was shown strong signs of competitiveness against the sides that eventually finished in the top 8 that year. This included a 4-point loss to the  in Round 7, an 11-point loss to  at Subiaco in Round 16, a 1-point loss & a draw to the eventual premiers that year  in Rounds 2 & 12 respectively and a 73-point win to  in Round 17.In addition to Melbourne's promising season allowing them to achieve 8 wins and a draw with a percentage of 94.52%, it also allowed James Frawley and Mark Jamar to earn position in the 2010 All-Australian team in the back line and the interchange bench respectively.In August, Melbourne announced it was officially debt free. The same night Melbourne also unveiled its new logo.
2010 list changes ===2009 trades===Trade gainedTraded fromTrade lostRef Pick 11    Brock McLean  ===Retirements and delistings===Player New club League ReasonRef Matthew Whelan  Pines Football Club  MPNFL Retired  Paul Wheatley  Palmerston Football Club  NTFL  Retired  Russell Robertson  Shepparton Swans  Goulburn Valley Football League  Retired  Simon Buckley    AFL  Delisted   Shane Valenti  Port Melbourne  VFL  Delisted  Trent Zomer  ''Unknown''  ''Unknown''  Delisted === National draft ===Round Overall pick Player State Position Team from League from  1  1  Tom Scully    Midfield  Dandenong Stingrays  TAC Cup  1  2  Jack Trengove    Midfield  Sturt  SANFL  1  11  Jordan Gysberts    Midfield  Eastern Ranges  TAC Cup  2  18  Luke Tapscott    Forward/Midfield  North Adelaide  SANFL  3  34  Max Gawn    Ruck  Sandringham Dragons  TAC Cup  4  50  Jack Fitzpatrick    Key Position  Western Jets  TAC Cup ===Pre-season draft===Round Overall pick Player State Position Team from League from  1  1  Joel Macdonald    Defender  Brisbane Lions  AFL ===Rookie draft===Round Overall pick Player State Position Team from League from  1  6  Michael Newton     Forward    AFL 2  22  John Meesen    Ruck    AFL
2010 squad
2010 season ===Pre-season=======NAB Cup=========Week 1=========NAB Challenge=========Week 2==========Week 3==========Week 4========Home and away season=======Round 1========Round 2========Round 3========Round 4========Round 5========Round 6========Round 7========Round 8========Round 9========Round 10========Round 11========Round 12========Round 13========Round 14========Round 15========Round 16========Round 17========Round 18========Round 19========Round 20========Round 21========Round 22====
Ladder ===Ladder breakdown by opposition=== Opponent  Played  Won  Lost  Drew  Premiership points  Points for  Points against  Percentage (%)   1  1  0  0  4  142  69  205.80   2  2  0  0  8  242  158  153.16   2  2  0  0  8  177  117  151.28   1  1  0  0  4  122  103  118.45   2  0  1  1  2  161  162  99.38   1  0  1  0  0  66  70  94.29   2  1  1  0  4  194  222  87.39   1  0  1  0  0  71  82  86.59   2  0  2  0  0  181  217  83.41   2  1  1  0  4  130  158  82.28   1  0  1  0  0  65  100  65.00   2  0  2  0  0  139  216  64.35   1  0  1  0  0  46  75  61.33   1  0  1  0  0  58  166  59.41   1  0  1  0  0  67  121  55.37 '''Total'''  '''22'''  '''8'''  '''13'''  '''1'''  '''34'''  '''1863'''  '''1971'''  '''94.52'''
Awards and milestones  '''Home & Away Season''' '''Player'''  '''Milestone'''  '''Reached''' Tom Scully  AFL Debut  27 March 2010 Jack Trengove  AFL Debut  27 March 2010 James Strauss  AFL Debut  27 March 2010 Brad Green  200th AFL Game  3 April 2010 Danny Hughes  AFL Debut  7 May 2010 Jordan Gysberts  AFL Debut  29 May 2010 Brent Moloney  100th AFL Game  29 May 2010 James Frawley  50th AFL Game  29 May 2010 Matthew Warnock  50th AFL Game  27 June 2010 Jared Rivers  100th AFL Game  4 July 2010 Colin Sylvia  100th AFL Game  8 August 2010 James McDonald  250th AFL Game  22 August 2010 Cale Morton  50th AFL Game  29 August 2010
China Tour Melbourne competed in the Kaspersky Cup Exhibition Match against the Brisbane Lions on 17 October in Shanghai, China winning by 5 points. Liam Jurrah kicked 5 goals in front of an estimated 5,000 crowd.
Awards Melbourne's annual Best and Fairest night was held on 2 September, at Crown Casino. Brad Green capped off an excellent year, winning his first Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Trophy, finishing 18 votes ahead of defender James Frawley, and also winning the Ron Barassi Leadership Award and the Leading Goalkicker Award. '''Best and Fairest Top Ten''' Position Player Votes  1st  Brad Green  (295)  2nd  James Frawley  (277)  3rd  Mark Jamar  (231)  4th  Aaron Davey  (194)  5th  Colin Sylvia  (170)  6th  Cameron Bruce  (168)  7th  Brent Moloney  (166)  8th  Tom Scully  (154)  9th  Colin Garland  (149)  10th  James McDonald  (149)'''Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Trophy''' – Brad Green'''Sid Anderson Memorial Trophy (Second in the Best and Fairest)''' – James Frawley'''Ron Barassi Snr Memorial Trophy (Third in the Best and Fairest)''' – Mark Jamar'''Ivor Warne-Smith Memorial Trophy (Fourth in the Best and Fairest)''' – Aaron Davey'''Dick Taylor Memorial Trophy (Fifth in the Best and Fairest)''' – Colin Sylvia'''Harold Ball Memorial Trophy (Best First Year Player)''' – Tom Scully'''Troy Broadbridge Trophy (highest polling MFC player in the Casey Best and Fairest)''' – Brad Miller'''Ron Barassi Leadership Award''' – Brad Green'''Ian Ridley Club Ambassador Award''' – Colin Sylvia'''Norm Smith Memorial Trophy (Coach's Award)''' – Jordie McKenzie'''Leading Goalkicker Award''' – Brad Green (55)
Brownlow Medal ===Results=== Round  1 vote  2 votes  3 votes 1  Sam Mitchell ()  Jordan Lewis ()  Luke Hodge () 2  '''Ricky Petterd ()'''  Alan Didak ()  '''Aaron Davey ()''' 3  '''James McDonald ()'''  Bernie Vince ()  '''Jack Grimes ()''' 4  '''Brent Moloney ()'''  '''James McDonald ()'''  '''Brad Green ()''' 5  '''Nathan Jones ()'''   '''James Frawley ()'''  '''Brent Moloney ()''' 6  Michael Firrito ()  '''Cameron Bruce ('''  Daniel Wells () 7  Shaun Higgins ()  Daniel Giansiracusa ()  '''Tom Scully ()''' 8  Mark LeCras ()  '''James McDonald ()'''  Matt Priddis () 9  '''Colin Sylvia ()'''  '''Aaron Davey ()'''  Travis Boak () 10  Joel Selwood ()  James Podsiadly ()  Gary Ablett () 11  Heath Scotland ()  Chris Judd ()  '''Brent Moloney ()''' 12  '''Mark Jamar ()'''  Dane Swan ()  '''Aaron Davey ()''' 13  Kurt Tippett ()  Simon Goodwin ()  Graham Johncock () 14  Brendon Goddard ()  Leigh Montagna ()  Clinton Jones () 15  '''Colin Sylvia ()'''  '''Mark Jamar ()'''  '''Brad Green ()''' 16  Anthony Morabito ()  '''Colin Sylvia ()'''  Hayden Ballantyne () 17  '''James Frawley ()'''  '''Aaron Davey ()'''  '''Colin Sylvia ()''' 18  '''Joel Macdonald ()'''  '''Mark Jamar ()'''  '''Colin Sylvia ()''' 19  Daniel Jackson ()  '''Liam Jurrah ()'''  '''Lynden Dunn ()''' 20  Lance Franklin ()  Shaun Burgoyne ()  Brad Sewell () 21  Domenic Cassisi ()  '''Cameron Bruce ()'''  Travis Boak () 22  Brady Rawlings ()  Brent Harvey ()  Levi Greenwood ()===Brownlow Medal tally=== Player  1 vote games  2 vote games  3 vote games  Total votes Aaron Davey  2  1  2  (10) Colin Sylvia  0  2  2  (10) Brent Moloney  1  0  2  (7) Brad Green  0  0  2  (6) James McDonald  1  2  0  (5) Mark Jamar  1  2  0  (5) Cameron Bruce  0  2  0  (4) Jack Grimes  0  0  1  (3) James Frawley  1  1  0  (3) Tom Scully  0  0  1  (3) Lynden Dunn  0  0  1  (3) Liam Jurrah  0  1  0  (2) Ricky Petterd  1  0  0  (1) Nathan Jones  1  0  0  (1) Joel Macdonald  1  0  0  (1) '''Total'''  '''9'''  '''11'''  '''11'''  '''(64)'''
References
External links * Official Website of the Melbourne Football Club*  Official Website of the AFL