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Life Long Saint wrote: ↑Tue 26 Sep 2023 9:21am
Every year we hear the same complaints.
We have to remember that the Brownlow Medal is the umpires award. Always has been. Always should be.
It's not like we don't have a multitude of other awards.
We have:
All Australian - Awarded based on position by a panel of "experts"
Player MVP - Awarded by the players
Coaches MVP - Awarded by the coaches
A plethora of media awards from all the major papers and radio broadcasters
And, lastly, the club B&F awards
If we don't like the Brownlow result, then why not elevate some of the others above it, or reduce the importance of the the Brownlow?
Oh, and one more thing...All the individual league awards, no matter who votes on them, are won by midfielders!
Exactly
I would add that one of the reasons many of us love sport is the unpredictability
Does the best horse win the Melbourne Cup?
Do you know what many of us find boring? When Djokovic wins every match he plays
" A few will never give up on you. When you go back out on the field, those are the people I want in your minds. Those are the people I want in your hearts."
St Kilda players to poll more than 20 Brownlow votes (under the 3-2-1 system)
Harold Bray - 1947 (21)
Brian Gleeson - 1957 (24)
Neil Roberts - 1958 (24)
Ian Stewart - 1966 (21)
Ross Smith - 1967 (24)
Robert Harvey - 1997 (26), 1998 (32)
Nick Dal Santo - 2011 (28)
Jack Steele - 2021 (26)
Jack Sinclair - 2023 (21)
Every year similar complaints with many of them having some credibility and there is sure to be a lot more to come. I would prefer the votes included the coaches votes as well but it is what it is. The oversized gaudy and ostentatious event is drawn out with so much bulldust which is far too long. But I was stupid enough to watch it all the way through so I can only blame myself. I could have saved my sanity and dodged it then read the list of the votes this morning. My biggest bitch may be contrary to other people's views which was when channel 7 took us away from this extremely cliched nonsense and over to the even more banal bulldust at 'The Front Bar'. The best thing about it is it won't be in our face after today.
