{"id":28041,"date":"2017-09-03T20:41:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T10:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afldraftcentral.com.au\/?p=28041"},"modified":"2021-10-06T06:29:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T20:29:57","slug":"2017-morrish-medal-winner-jack-higgins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2017\/09\/03\/2017-morrish-medal-winner-jack-higgins\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Morrish Medal winner: Jack Higgins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLEIGH Chargers midfielder <strong>Jack Higgins<\/strong> has won the prestigious Morrish Medal for the best and fairest player of the 2017 TAC Cup home-and-away season.<\/p>\n<p>Previous winners of the Morrish Medal include top-five NAB AFL Draft picks Clayton Oliver (2015) and Hugh McCluggage (2016).<\/p>\n<p>Higgins ran out as the winner with 22 votes at tonight&#8217;s TAC Cup vote count.<\/p>\n<p>Coming into the final round this weekend, Higgins averaged 24 disposals, six tackles, five marks and had booted 27 goals in 12 games.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, Higgins has transitioned from an inside ball winning midfielder to a small forward &#8211; with big success, booting seven goals from 13 disposals against the Bendigo Pioneers in Round 17.<\/p>\n<p>The AFL Academy and Vic Metro member has had a fantastic year and may find himself a top 10 selection on draft night.<\/p>\n<p>The Vic Metro MVP averaged 27 disposals, six tackles, six marks and five clearances throughout the NAB AFL Under 18 Championships in his top-age year.<\/p>\n<p>Higgins has been invited to the National combine.<\/p>\n<p><em>More to come<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLEIGH Chargers midfielder Jack Higgins has won the prestigious Morrish Medal for the best and fairest player of the 2017 TAC Cup home-and-away season. Previous winners of the Morrish Medal include top-five NAB AFL Draft picks Clayton Oliver (2015) and Hugh McCluggage (2016). Higgins ran out as the winner with 22 votes at tonight&#8217;s TAC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7949,8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nab-league","category-news","category-tac-cup"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88232,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28041\/revisions\/88232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}