Essendon captain Jobe Watson has beenrewarded for an amazing season with selection as centre man in the 2012 AllAustralian team.
Watson said his 2012 season was the mostconsistent since making his debut in 2003.
“It is certainly a long year and you havepeaks and troughs,” Watson said.
“For the main part of the year I thought Iwas able to play at a level I wasn’t able to reach in previous years.”
Watson’s incredible year saw him play all22 games for the Bombers averaging 15.6 kicks and 13.4 handballs per game.
He was ranked sixth in the AFL for totaldisposals and third in the AFL for clearances.
It is the first time Watson has receivedthe All Australian honour during his career.
Jobe becomes thefirst Essendon player to receive the honour of being selected in the AllAustralian team since Dustin Fletcher was named on the interchange bench in2007.
The All Australian selection panel of eight is Andrew Demetriou (Chairman), Adrian Anderson, Kevin Bartlett, Luke Darcy, Danny Frawley, Gerrard Healy, Glen Jakovich, Mark Ricciuto.
The full team is listed below.
B: Sean Dempster (St Kilda), Luke McPharlin (Fremantle), Darren Glass (West Coast, captain)
HB: Beau Waters (West Coast), Ted Richards (Sydney Swans), Grant Birchall (Hawthorn)
C: Trent Cotchin (Richmond), Jobe Watson (Essendon), Dayne Beams (Collingwood)
HF: Patrick Dangerfield (Adelaide Crows), Lance Franklin (Hawthorn), Cyril Rioli (Hawthorn)
F: Stephen Milne (St Kilda), Tom Hawkins (Geelong Cats), Dean Cox (West Coast)
R: Nic Naitanui (West Coast), Scott Thompson (Adelaide Crows), Gary Ablett (Gold Coast Suns, vice-captain)
Int: Brett Deledio (Richmond), Josh Kennedy (Sydney Swans), Scott Pendlebury (Collingwood), Dane Swan(Collingwood)
