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Naicos gets tagged 10X more than any other player. Imagine if he was allowed to run free every game like Ed Richards or Bailey Smith or Jordan Dawson. It would be over for the league.
 
Really should have had longmire and simpson on it as well, two recent coaches who would have a better understanding of the true value of players and positions than all the other panelists combined.
It's a pretty average looking list of selectors tbh.

I guess we really shouldn't be surprised with the team.
 
The official 2025 All-Australian selection panel comprises of: Andrew Dillon (Chair), Eddie Betts, Jude Bolton, Nathan Buckley, Kane Cornes, Abbey Holmes, Glen Jakovich, Laura Kane and Matthew Pavlich.
Well seeing the Names:

Andrew Dillon
Laura Kane
Kane Cornes

I know it’s a Joke
 

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They owe him big time for shafting him last year.
There is precedence for players winning the brownlow medal the year after their dominant season.

The swan and judd brownlow is a classic example.
Swan should have won the 2010 comfortably but judd got it. Judd was by far the better player in 2011 but swan got it. So the umpires have a tendency to over correct.
 

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Naicos gets tagged 10X more than any other player. Imagine if he was allowed to run free every game like Ed Richards or Bailey Smith or Jordan Dawson. It would be over for the league.
More reason why we need to do everything possible to get a second banana next to him.
 
There is precedence for players winning the brownlow medal the year after their dominant season.

The swan and judd brownlow is a classic example.
Swan should have won the 2010 comfortably but judd got it. Judd was by far the better player in 2011 but swan got it. So the umpires have a tendency to over correct.

Judd wasn't the better player in 2011.

Judd was better in 2011 than in 2010.
Swan was better in 2010 than in 2011.
Swan was better than Judd by a country mile in 2010, but only marginally better in 2011.

But because Judd got so many votes in 2010 and actually played better in 2011 everyone expected him to win again so it was a shock when he didn't.

But if you have a look at the awards voted on week to week in 2011 Judd doesn't dominate at all, and Swan won IIRC more of these than Judd. Different story in 2010 where Swan wins basically every single one except the Brownlow.
 

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He played as an inside outside mid in 2025. He didn’t have as good a year as Dawson. He didn’t have as good a year as Anderson. It’s marginal between him and Richards.

Nick’s kicking was off his best all year so he gets edged by the more efficient player and prolific goalkicker. No snub.

I disagree, my opinion it's a snub. The player voted the best for 2025 by his peers sitting on the bench, doesn't sit right with me...
 

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