The duo - Daniel Merrett and Josh Drummond - kept their perfect records intact, however.
Both have been selected in all four sides since the team of the year was inaugurated in 2007.
The Courier-Mail and QAFL joined forces to acknowledge the State’s best performed talents in the absence of State of Origin football.
While Merrett’s form was not as outstanding as recent seasons, he nonetheless was the best fit for the full-back position.
Drummond only played seven games, but the Lions won the majority of them and his form was first class until injury sidelined him for the remainder of the season.
A total of nine Queenslanders have been chosen in the Team of the Year each year since its inception.
The others are Nick Riewoldt, his St Kilda teammate Sam Gilbert, the Western Bulldogs’ Mitch Hahn, Jarrod Harbrow and Ben Hudson, Melbourne’s Joel Macdonald and Hawthorn’s Michael Osborne.
A QAFL-based player was included for the first time, with Southport and State skipper and Grogan Medallist Danny Wise winning a berth on the interchange bench.
Likewise well performed Gold Coast VFL ruckman Zac Smith swooped on a berth from outside the AFL competition.
In another big announcement, former Lions favourite Marcus Ashcroft was elevated to ‘Legend’ status in the Queensland Football Hall of Fame as the League inducted 10 new Hall of Fame members.
Ashcroft, the first Queenslander to play 300 AFL games during a glittering career with the Brisbane Lions and now Football Manager with the new Gold Coast AFL club, became the eighth Queensland Hall of Fame ‘Legend’.
He joins his long-time Lions captain Michael Voss and coach Leigh Matthews, Hawthorn champion Jason Dunstall, record-breaking umpire Tom McArthur, Queensland Team of the Century fullback Dick Verdon, founding administrator Arthur Collinson and 50-year football servant Harry O’Callaghan.
Brett Voss, a 170-game Brisbane and St.Kilda AFL player and younger brother of the current Lions coach, was among the 10 new inductees.
Other modern day inductees were Coorparoo, Redland and Mt.Gravatt rover Brad Jones, winner of the QAFL Grogan Medal in 1999 and runner-up no less than four times, and Morningside games record-holder and State captain Dean Edwards.
Also on hand to receive their induction tonight were Brian ‘Puddy’ Warlow, a Mayne star of the 1960s-70s, and Wave Bowers, a former Western Districts player, senior goal umpire and a member of the QAFL tribunal since 1973 - and still going.
Inducted in their absence were Michael Becker, a driving force for the code from the late 1880s, David Pie, a Windsor premiership player from the 1920s turned League administrator in the 1930s and ‘50s, Kevin Crathern, founding father of football in Cairns in the 1950s, Ralph Geshcke, a four-times Windsor premiership player 1947-51 and historic first premiership captain-coach with Wilston-Grange in 1955, and Spencer Thompson, a Sandgate champion of the 1950-60s.
The inclusion of 10 newcomers at the annual QAFL Grogan Medal dinner takes to 160 the total number of members in a Hall of Fame instituted in 2008 to recognize the enormous contribution to the code of players, coaches, officials, umpires and media representatives.
The Queensland Team of the Year for 2010 is:
B: Jarrod Harbrow (WB), Daniel Merrett (BL), Sam Gilbert (StK);
HB: Courtenay Dempsey (Ess), Tom Williams (WB), Joel Macdonald (Melb);
C: Josh Drummond (BL), Dayne Beams (Coll), Rohan Bail (Melb);
HF: Brendan Whitecross (Haw), Nick Riewoldt (StK - capt), Michael Osborne (Haw);
F: Ben Warren (NM), Kurt Tippett (Adel), Jesse White (Syd);
R: Ben Hudson (WB), Mitch Hahn (WB), David Armitage (StK);
INT: Brent Renouf (Haw), Ricky Petterd (Melb), Zac Smith (G/Coast), Danny Wise (S’port).
