Star midfielder Dion Prestia has become a member of an elite group in Richmond’s AFL/VFL history.
Prestia, winner of the 2019 Jack Dyer Medal, joins nine other Tigers as a Best and Fairest winner in a Richmond premiership year.
He also now is the seventh player recruited from a rival league club to win the Jack Dyer Medal, and the first since Kane Johnson in 2006.
Best and Fairest winners in Richmond premiership years
1920: Dan Minogue
1921: Hughie James
1932: Jack Dyer
1934: Ray Martin
1943: Ron Durham
1967: Kevin Bartlett
1969: Royce Hart
1973: Kevin Bartlett
1974: Kevin Bartlett
1980: Geoff Raines
2017: Dustin Martin
2019: Dion Prestia
Jack Dyer Medallists from rival league clubs
1971: Ian Stewart (St Kilda)
1979: Barry Rowlings (Hawthorn)
1994: Chris Bond (Carlton)
1996: Paul Broderick (Fitzroy)
2001: Darren Gaspar (Sydney)
2006: Kane Johnson (Adelaide)
2019: Dion Prestia (Gold Coast)
