1985 Sandover Medal Count Night - Back with and for the Football Elites at the Golden Ballroom Sheraton Perth Hotel but Murray Wrensted (EF) deserved the win

Murray Wrensted (EFFC) - much deserved winner of the 1985 Medal. Forget about "that kick". Please remember him for "that Medal".

Michael Mitchell (C) - second

1985 Sandover Medal Count, Golden Ballroom at Sheraton Perth Hotel

Final Results: Murray Wrensted (East Fremantle) – 46 votes; Michael Mitchell (Claremont) – 34 votes; Peter Davidson (Claremont) – 33 votes; Mark Bairstow (South Fremantle) – 33 votes; Dwayne Lamb (Subiaco) – 32 votes; David Bain (East Perth) – 30 votes.

All West Perth FC vote getters: Dean Laidley – 25 votes (11^th place); Kim Rogers – 23 votes (equal 12^th place); Gavin Chaplin – 21 votes; Phil Bradmore, Peter Menaglio – 14 votes; Corry Bewick, George Michalczyk – 11 votes; Darren Bewick – 10 votes; John Gastev – 9 votes; Brendon Bell – 6 votes; Graeme Comerford, Doug Simms, Wayne Dayman, Les Fong – 5 votes; Derek Kickett, Peter Cutler, Brian Perrin – 4 votes; Paul Mifka, Dean Warwick – 3 votes; Peter Murnane, Tony Fraser 2 votes.

Mark Bairstow (SF) - fourth

Team totals (5-4-3-2-1 voting system): East Fremantle 222; West Perth 186; Subiaco 182; Claremont 146; South Fremantle 140; Perth 137; Swan Districts 131; East Perth 116 [archival research by Jack Frost].

Source: Geoff Christian (1985c), “A birthday Sandover for Wrensted”, The West Australian, Tuesday, 27 August, p. 96.