TOUGH onballer Pete Bury has capped a remarkable season by taking out the Port Douglas best-and-fairest award in its premiership year.

As far as individual accolades go, being judged your team’s best contributor in a season that netted the ultimate prize is as good as it gets.

Bury, originally from Geelong, said he was humbled to receive the award ahead of defender Declan Kelly and captain Kye Chapple.

“I’m just really honoured, it’s a great club and it caps off a pretty special year,” Bury said.

“It was a little bit overwhelming, we’ve had a lot of blokes have great years so to win it (best and fairest) in a year that we won the flag, I guess it doesn’t get much better than that.”

Bury was a star for the Crocs this season and rarely featured outside the best players. He was rewarded mid-year with selection in the North Queensland representative side for the clash with South Queensland at Cazalys Stadium.

He was also influential in the Crocs rousing grand final win over South Cairns Cutters at Cazalys Stadium.

“It was definitely one of my most consistent seasons,” Bury said.

“It helped a lot with the quality of players we had in our team, and the midfield was particularly strong. It is easily one of the strongest midfield groups I’ve been a part of, we had six or seven blokes rolling through there and it made us pretty hard to stop.”

Bury and his teammates celebrated long and hard following the club’s second premiership in three years. In a huge positive for the Crocs, Bury is likely to play on next season after initially contemplating retirement following the grand final triumph.

“I was actually planning to retire, but the lure of going back-to-back is going to be hard to ignore,” he said.

“It’s something I’ve never done before and it would be great to be part of that, so we’ll see how we go.”