MVP AFL 2020 Brownlow Medal Count

[Dentshop]

A good Rangers man holding the Port guernsey should have been enough to drag us over the line. Oh well.

 

[VineValerian]

Being a massive Port supporter growing up you'd think mightve helped though.

We didn't need him but needed Rocky

 

[sobrave]

HOW ABOUT A FLAG YOU CAMPAIGNERS

NEXT YEAR FARKEN

 

[tribey]

Being a massive Port supporter growing up you'd think mightve helped though.

As a child. I think that bird had well and truly flown by adulthood. Wasn’t Judd a mad Melbourne fan?

 

[VineValerian]

Turned tv to 7 and saw last four rounds.
Neale unbeatable lead already. Great to see Trav be outright second - great year for the old bloke

As an aside, Hamish McL is a woeful commentator and marginally better interviewer.

His brother is a woeful administrator and even worse vote annuncer. His pregnant pauses for"dramatic effect" were nauseatingly contrived and added nothing to the presentation.

Boy, have fans of the game drawn the short straw with those two dropkicks

 

[JimmyBC]

I dunno about you lot but finally beating Geelong in a final eight years deep into Kenneth's mighty reign & the highest team votes in the Brownlow might have me joining the clappers eh.

 

[sobrave]

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João Simpkin 26

 

[blaargh]

Turned tv to 7 and saw last four rounds.
Neale unbeatable lead already. Great to see Trav be outright second - great year for the old bloke

As an aside, Hamish McL is a woeful commentator and marginally better interviewer.

His brother is a woeful administrator and even worse vote annuncer. His pregnant pauses for"dramatic effect" were nauseatingly contrived and added nothing to the presentation.

Boy, have fans of the game drawn the short straw with those two dropkicks

they’re going to drive the game into the ground.

in a world I can get nba, nfl, premier league for $18 a month. it’s not a joke.

 

[Rising Power]

What affinity did he have for Brisbane?

I thought it was something to do with his mate McCarthy getting to the Lions too.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Not sure if posted previously

Travis Boak 21 votes
Camry Crows 20 votes

 

[PAFC04]

 

[Zifa]

Big Chaz seems to have moved on from Miss World

Noice

It’s the same bird, hence the form slump

 

[Enviable Tradition]

Dangerfield came out earlier in the year and declared this years premiership an asterisk flag. Is he going to declare this an asterisk Brownlow too? You know he's thinking it.

Depends on Saturdays result.

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[Incarnate]

I don’t give a flying truck but would that be the first time we have had the most team high votes?

 

[Doctor Feel]

I love how fox footy is like DAICOS TAKES HOME GOAL OF THE YEAR BUT WAS JACK NEWNES ROBBED

Sigh. We honestly don't exist.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Oh yea the talk about kayo has just reminded me that I need to cancel it now the season is over.

 

[afl2004]

Oh yea the talk about kayo has just reminded me that I need to cancel it now the season is over.

i did that this afternoon

 

[Duckenthusiast]

I love how fox footy is like DAICOS TAKES HOME GOAL OF THE YEAR BUT WAS JACK NEWNES ROBBED

Sigh. We honestly don't exist.

Honestly, the entries were terrible this year. Cripps' best by a mile. Westhoff could bicycle kick a goal from 50m out and he still wouldn't win it. Sam Walsh wins mark of the year for running back into a pack like our players have got knocked out doing in our last 2 games. Asked about, 'lol, I didn't even know Dixon was coming'.

 

[El_Scorcho]

A popular vote is the worst possible way to decide those awards and honestly someone should probably do what Tom Gleeson did to the Logies and just take the piss out of the whole thing a couple of years in a row so they change it.

 

[TeeKray]

This award favours good teams with a single standout player who the media loves and goes against teams with other standout players and aren’t media darlings

Yeah, hype has become an important part of the award. You could see tonight for example Petracca and Steele start to poll only when the media started talking them up mid season. And even Neale who was already polling well started to rocket ahead once the hype machine got into full swing. Rowell with his 3 x 3 voters too.

Port? Well we're an irrelevance so the votes always get shared relatively evenly. We actually topped the league for votes with 75 - next best was 66. Still nowhere close.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Yeah, hype has become an important part of the award. You could see tonight for example Petracca and Steele start to poll only when the media started talking them up mid season. And even Neale who was already polling well started to rocket ahead once the hype machine got into full swing. Rowell with his 3 x 3 voters too.

Port? Well we're an irrelevance so the votes always get shared relatively evenly. We actually topped the league for votes with 75 - next best was 66. Still nowhere close.

How do we fix this? Do we make the umpires do their votes after watching a replay or something?

I think Neale wins this year regardless, but the Brownlow's reputation as a serious, meaningful award has been more and more trashed as time goes on.

 

[tribey]

Born of a kinda-but-not-really resemblance to the Atleti mwahmagnet

 

[PA88]

Even if this award is a farce, we still can't win anything.

 

[sobrave]

Walsh's mark was pretty good and better than the other 2 noms. But if that's the best 3 all year it's been a pretty ordinary season.

 

[finbarr]

How do we fix this? Do we make the umpires do their votes after watching a replay or something?

I think Neale wins this year regardless, but the Brownlow's reputation as a serious, meaningful award has been more and more trashed as time goes on.

The entire award and night completely lacks substance. Its typical AFL PR nonsense. From the horrendous red carpet, the count itself, the presentation, to the vote itself, it its just a pile of hokey rubbish. I cant watch it, and only switched on with 5 rounds left to see how Trav was going.
The AFL needs a highest individual award but this isn't the way to do it. Perhaps a rotating group of past players and administrators or something, I'm not sure.
But I won't hold my breath waiting. The AFL needs to do a lot of things to improve but is so nailed to its pissy little "traditions" its a joke.
This sport badly needs a Super Lesgue style shake up.