“Bri is resilient and very dedicated to her craft. She’s been tasked with adversity and tough times over the journey through injury,but she’s persevered to piece together this amazing season,” Davey’s co-captain Steph Chiocci said.
“It takes a lotto stop her. I’ve seen her storm through one,two,three tackles and dish the ball out and not many girls can do that. Then you’ll have her smothering the ball,laying a tackle herself,and it inspires the girls.”
The versatile Davey was brilliant in her second season for the Pies since being traded from Carlton,leading her team to a preliminary final where Collingwood were shaded by Brisbane.
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Fresh from the newsshe will miss the AFLW grand final through concussion,Adelaide’s Chelsea Randall was voted the league’s most courageous player. Blackburn won the award for best captain,while Richmond young gun and No.1 draft pick Ellie McKenzie claimed the best first-year player award.
Meanwhile,Sharni Norder (formerly Layton),the Pies’ AFLW ruck and vice-captain,has announced her retirement.