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Martin claims second Tigers B&F award

Dustin Martin has won the Jack Dyer Medal as Richmond's best-and-fairest player for the second-straight year.

Dustin Martin.
Richmond star Dustin Martin capped his incredible season with a second consecutive Jack Dyer Medal. (AAP)

Richmond superstar Dustin Martin has capped his stunning AFL season with his second successive Jack Dyer Medal.

Martin added the Tigers' best-and-fairest award to his historic Brownlow Medal, premiership medallion and Norm Smith Medal treble at a ceremony at Crown Palladium on Monday night.

The 26-year-old claimed the award ahead of Alex Rance in second place and Kane Lambert third.

"It's been a massive year, one of the best years of my life, it's just awesome," Martin said.

"We're still pinching ourselves that we won the premiership this year. But it's been awesome and we all deserve it.

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"I just loved getting out there with the boys and playing footy (this year). You don't have to think about all the other crap in your life for two hours ... I just get out there and do what I've loved doing since I was five or six.

"I'm just super proud. It's been an amazing journey and this is just the beginning - we've got plenty of good times ahead."

Martin has taken all before him this season, also winning major media awards and AFL Players' Association and Coaches' Association awards, as well as earning his second All-Australian nod.

Skipper Trent Cotchin, who had earlier revealed he planned to give up the captaincy if the Tigers didn't make the finals this year, led the toast for Martin after he was presented with his latest award.

"I think the greatest thing about Dusty is the fact that he was quick to shy away from the Brownlow hype, he was quick to put away his Norm Smith Medal and just bask in the glory of the premiership medal," Cotchin said.

"It's all that he's about, he's all about the team and that's why we love him so much."

Monday night's awards ceremony brought a close to an amazing season for the side that rose from 13th last year to claim the club's 11th flag.

Premiership coach Damien Hardwick's voice shook with emotion when he reflected on the feat in his address to the crowd.

"I'm just so bloody proud of this football club and this playing group," Hardwick said.

"This club did something absolutely remarkable - it achieved something built on care and unity unlike anything I've ever seen before in my time in football.

"That bond was simply unbreakable and their belief unshakable."

Ever the showman, Jack Riewoldt joined the band to close the evening with a rendition of The Killers' Mr Brightside, which he ended with an emphatic mic drop.

THE WINNERS:

Jack Dyer Medal - Dustin Martin 89 votes

2nd - Alex Rance 80

3rd - Kane Lambert 76

4th - Trent Cotchin 73

5th - Dylan Grimes 69

Michael Roach Medal (leading goalkicker award) - Jack Riewoldt

Francis Bourke Award - Dylan Grimes

Bill Cosgrove-Harry Jenkins Best First Year Player Award - Dan Butler

David Mandie Community Award - Shane Edwards

Guinane Medal (VFL best-and-fairest award) - Anthony Miles


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