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Firstly congratulations to Matt Priddis on winning the Brownlow, good player and a great bloke, not taking anything away from him. And it wouldn't matter anyway seeing as Priddis still would have won anyway but...........
I suspect Priddis only really polled 24 votes. If my theory is correct, the AFL left the West Coast v Gold Coast to last, in case Dangerfield and Boak polled 3 in the final game. Dangerfield and Boak didn't which left Fyfe on 25 and Priddis on 24. Now Priddis wasn't expected to poll in that game, wasn't named in the best on afl.com.au and had 11 kicks, 16 handballs, 3 marks and 7 tackles. A solid game but not really what most would consider eye-catching, especially in a game where Josh Kennedy kicked 8, LeCras kicked 4 and had 20 disposals, Lycett had an allround good game and Michael Rischitelli had better stats than Priddis in every department.
So anyway I reckon Gil McLachlan then and there changed the voting, and gave Priddis 2 votes despite him not really getting any to take Priddis to 26 votes and avoid the awkward situation with Fyfe being ineligible. Obviously if Dangerfield or Boak polled 3 votes in round 23 they wouldn't have been able to change it but seeing as Priddis was going to win anyway, I reckon they fixed the ending so that Fyfe didn't get the most votes.
As I said it made no influence on who won and who didn't but it made it a whole lot less awkward. This is all just my opinion, I have no inside information, but the more I think about it, the more I believe it. Priddis just wouldn't have gotten that 2 votes.
I suspect Priddis only really polled 24 votes. If my theory is correct, the AFL left the West Coast v Gold Coast to last, in case Dangerfield and Boak polled 3 in the final game. Dangerfield and Boak didn't which left Fyfe on 25 and Priddis on 24. Now Priddis wasn't expected to poll in that game, wasn't named in the best on afl.com.au and had 11 kicks, 16 handballs, 3 marks and 7 tackles. A solid game but not really what most would consider eye-catching, especially in a game where Josh Kennedy kicked 8, LeCras kicked 4 and had 20 disposals, Lycett had an allround good game and Michael Rischitelli had better stats than Priddis in every department.
So anyway I reckon Gil McLachlan then and there changed the voting, and gave Priddis 2 votes despite him not really getting any to take Priddis to 26 votes and avoid the awkward situation with Fyfe being ineligible. Obviously if Dangerfield or Boak polled 3 votes in round 23 they wouldn't have been able to change it but seeing as Priddis was going to win anyway, I reckon they fixed the ending so that Fyfe didn't get the most votes.
As I said it made no influence on who won and who didn't but it made it a whole lot less awkward. This is all just my opinion, I have no inside information, but the more I think about it, the more I believe it. Priddis just wouldn't have gotten that 2 votes.