At the start of the year, football pundits knew it would take a strong pair of hands to loosen Peter Bell's tight grip on the Doig Medal. As it turned out, it took the strongest pair of hands in the AFL. After winning the Clinton Wolf Medal, the Golden Helmet and stack of much less impressive media awards, all wrapped in an All Australian guernsey, Pavlich has topped it off with the 2005 Doig Medal.

The award didn't come as a huge shock, what with his 61 goals for the season, complete dominance of the Fremantle forward line and top ranking in the Brownlow voting, but the packed house of cashed up supporters feigned a bit of enthusiasm all the same as Pavlich collected Doig and became only the second multiple Doig Medal winner in the history of the club

Fremantle have abandoned the hippy, new-age flowers in your hair, let's give everyone a vote, voting system that has infiltrated the AFL and sees players winning medals with 477 votes, and have adopted for the do what we say or no one gets a vote system. If they think you've played well enough and the match committee can be bothered, they either give you 4 votes (outstanding), 3 votes (excellent), 2 votes (very good) or 1 vote (good). Pavlich won with 47 votes which meant that he would have smashed Peter Bell's effort last year as well, which saw the system's debut.

Bell didn't embarrass himself though and tied with Shane Parker for second place (the Silver or "Scotty" Doig), prodigal son Heath Black made a triumphant return to the club, coming in in third place (the Rose of "Hooky" Doig), two very similar players tied for 4th place with Paul Hasleby and Scott Thorton tieing on 23 votes and Jeff Farmer sat alone in 5th place before the flood gates opened 6 players tied for the next two spots.

The Beacon Award for the most promising young player (or the 'Edgar' Doig) was a Crowd favourite with David Mundy joining the select club and Troy Cook picked up the Best Clubman award (the 'Ron' Doig).