END OF SEASON POLL 2022/3 - THE RESULTS
By The Saracens
August 30 2023
Just in time for the new season, lets look at the results of our End of Season Poll from 2022-23. This year we used the “Poll Option” on SportNetwork and although there are some limitations, it led to much greater engagement so I think it’s a way forward for the future.
The eds will try and use this option throughout the season eg Player of the Match so please watch out! Any suggestions for future polls gratefully received.
The results are those which were showing when each poll closed. Any later votes aren’t included.
So, without further ado, here are the results of our End of season Poll for 22-23:
PLAYER OF THE SEASON:
BEN EARL (55%)
Ivan Van Zyl (22%)
Owen Farrell (12%)
YOUNG PLAYER OF THE SEASON
THEO DAN (94%)
Callum Hunter-Hill (4%)
Ollie Hartley (2%)
SARACENS OLD FAVOURITE
JACKSON WRAY (46%)
Sean Maitland (24%)
Alex Goode (22%)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A SARACENS TEAM
PREMIERSHIP FINAL WIN OVER SALE (37%)
51-18 hammering of Leicester Tigers at StoneX (22%)
45-39 comeback win over Northampton Saints at StoneX (15%)
WORST PERFORMANCE BY A SARACENS TEAM
29-20 DEFEAT TO LONDON IRISH JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS (51%)
20-14 defeat away to Edinburgh in Champions Cup (38%)
Equal: 20-19 home win over Bristol Bears & 61-19 end of season loss to Bath 6.5.23 (5%)
BEST REFEREE
LUKE PEARCE (73%)
Wayne Barnes (13%)
Nika Amashukeli (10%)
WORST REFEREE
Equally bad: ANDREW BRACE & KARL DICKSON (44%)
Tom Foley (11%)
GROUND YOU ARE MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO VISITING
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR STADIUM (34%)
Stade Chaban Delmas (26%)
Equal: Butt Stadium & Loftus Versfield (10%)
BIGGEST THREAT TO SARACENS NEXT SEASON
SALE (51%)
Bath (16%)
Leicester Tigers (10%)
Thanks to everyone who took part - it was a bit of fun during the silly season. Not long now until it all begins again!
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2023:09:14:18:32:03 by Darraghgirl.
I can't wait for the new season to begin (on that theme maybe a "which player are you most looking forward to seeing this season" poll?) and feel incredibly positive about it. Ofc hard to know in what state, mental and physical, our Internationals will return but am I being too optimistic looking at our depth and thinking that strong results in not only the Premiership but also the ERCC might not be beyond Sarries this season?
Re the polls. The Theo Dan rise is fascinating to me. I had to admit that as impressed by him as I've been I kind of felt that it all happened very quickly and was a bit of a contrast to some other young players who put in season long performances. A quick look at the stats kind of disproves that with Dan first making an appearance in round 5, recording 7 Premiership starts and 9 Premiership (2 ERCC) appearances from the bench, including the Final where he played 70 minutes plus on early for Jamie George.
That probably talks to one of two things. How seamlessly the coaching group integrate new players and how poor my attention to detail is! Regardless, good luck to him he's had quite a year.
We are blessed with a core of excellent preview and review writers but these polls are excellent fillers and often spark interesting debates. Would it be useful for people to make suggestions for polls they'd like so they can be "landbanked" and used them when needed?
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Would it be useful for people to make suggestions for polls they'd like so they can be "landbanked" and used them when needed?
Glad 'Saracens based Podcast of the Year' was avoided this time round, didn't want the embarrassment of winning/losing a one horse race!
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(on that theme maybe a "which player are you most looking forward to seeing this season" poll
They probably realised you’d rig the poll with alt accounts voting for Elliot Daly OM! 😄
Probably a lengthy show first up this coming Wednesday... complete with special guest Maggie Alphonsi (readers of this thread getting an early exclusive leak)