On Saturday 21st October the Club held the last Annual Awards Night for the Broncos team. Next time the Awards Night will be shared between the clubs two teams, the Broncos AND Colts.
At this year’s event in the Oxgang Kitchen Bar and Rooms we had our biggest turnout yet. With the presentations, raffle prizes, fund raising games, a DJ and the obligatory games of Beer Pong, it was a “full on” celebration of the Broncos year.
As well as presenting medals to all of the players, there were a few “special presentations” made prior to the main awards.
On behalf of the club Alison Thomson handed out framed presentations to each of the HNC Chieftains Super 5s winning players (Liam Fleming, Scott McKenzie, Callum Woods, Kevin Woods and Fraser Thomson) and to the Chieftains Coaches (David Mooney and Jimmy Thomson).
2005 European Bronze Medalist with the GB Lions, David Mooney, then presented the three 2017 European Bronze Medalists (Fraser Thomson, Kevin Woods and Callum Woods) with badges for each of the international games played.
A special presentation was made to Callum Woods for his “heroic feat” to get to this years Northern Regional Finals.
Club Chairman, Jimmy Thomson, then delivered a framed presentation to Scott McKenzie to celebrate his Flag Football World HNC Quarterback of the Year Award.
In his speech prior to handing out the player medals, Head Coach David Mooney thanked all the players for their hard work throughout his year, but announced he will be stepping back from the top spot to concentrate on developing the Colts team. He also named his successor, after a certain amount of dramatic
build up, as Fraser Thomson.
Just prior to the delivery of the Individual Awards, Broncos Fantasy League Manager Daniel McGill delivered the trophy for the 2016/2017 season to Jimmy Thomson, following on from his 2015/2016 trophy.
The first individual Award of the evening was the Broncos Comedy Award.
There were nominations for Jimmy Thomson, Andrew O’Donnell, Ciaran Young, Liam Fleming and a joint nomination for Louise Donnelly, Fraser Thomson and Luke Morrice.
After seeing some of the video it came as no surprise to those in the room that the award went to Liam Fleming for “Keeping us all amused” throughout the year.
The nominations for the Offensive Player of the Year were – Liam Fleming, Fraser Thomson, Callum Woods, Kevin Woods and Scott McKenzie.
With some impressive stats in the league and play-offs:-
Top scorer on offence with 139 points
70 catches from 90 targets (completion rate of 78%)
1 rushing TD and 21 Receiving TDs
5 Extra Point conversions
3 passing attemts, two completions (each for an XP)
Playing 71 % of all offensive plays
Offensive Player of the Year 2017 – Callum Woods
The nominations for the Defensive Player of the Year were – Liam Fleming, Fraser Thomson, Callum Woods, Kevin Woods and Mark Wallace.
The Defensive Player of the Year stats were also worthy of note:-
Top scorer on defence
46 Tackles
13 Tips
13 Interceptions
3 Interceptions returned for TDs
Playing 90 % of all offensive plays
Defensive Player of the Year 2017 – Liam Fleming
The Kelpie Award is given to players who put in significant efforts or who are making real progress through out the year or members of the club for their contributions to the club throughout the year.
This years nominees were Daniel McGill, Andy Brown, Steven Cliffe and Billy Corner.
The 2017 Kelpie Award winner was, “… for a great deal of hard work, for listening and learning… culminating in his first competative interception for the club” – Billy Corner
The final award of the night is the Players’ Player of the Year. This award is voted by all of the current players. This year there were nominations for Fraser Thomson, Callum Woods, Liam Fleming, Scott McKenzie and Kevin Woods.
The Broncos Players’ Player of the Year 2017 – Callum Woods
The Club would like to thank all of the players and their friends and family who came out to make it such an enjoyable evening. Thanks also to the many generous donations to the fund raising raffle and games.
Roll on 2018.