Game Day Brownlow and Rising Star 2025

[Scorpus]

Almost the same as the amount of umpires each round.

Yeah but umpires are idiots. A panel of 50 astute experts would be much better

 

[pjcrows]

I still think the worst ever brownlow medalist was tony liberatore.

Shane Woewodin.

 

[119others]

This will go down with brownlow winners like Wines, Priddis and Woewodin...

No way! This guy is an absolute gun and will be for years to come. If we could choose one player in the league to come to us he would be right up there.

 

[pjcrows]

 

[Scorpus]

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Luckily there has been no suspicious Brownlow activity since 2022, and this definitely stopped back then.

Four men charged over alleged AFL Brownlow Medal betting scheme

Investigators say the four men collectively broke the law dozens of times, using corrupt conduct information to gamble on the 2021 and 2022 Brownlow medal awards.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Hot Opinion

There shouldn't be any individual awards

No Brownlows
No Best & Fairests

Team game
There's only winning and losing

 

[119others]

Cornes voted on the rising star and only gave Curtin two votes, behind Ashcroft and Langford.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion but combined with recent comments on Dawson and the Worrell debacle, he’s shown he is too biased for these gigs.

100%. He openly hates us. Built us up this year to tear us down.

 

[BunjiMC]

Luckily there has been no suspicious Brownlow activity since 2022, and this definitely stopped back then.

Four men charged over alleged AFL Brownlow Medal betting scheme

Investigators say the four men collectively broke the law dozens of times, using corrupt conduct information to gamble on the 2021 and 2022 Brownlow medal awards.

www.abc.net.au

Out of all the votes to rig. You surely don't go for the most obvious one?

 

[Scorpus]

Out of all the votes to rig. You surely don't go for the most obvious one?

Big payout though

 

[Maddogmetro]

Won 18 games, and the team received 93 out of a possible 144 votes.

Make of that what you will. We always seem to cop a lack of votes in a winning side.

 

[AFC979810]

Hot Opinion

There shouldn't be any individual awards

No Brownlows
No Best & Fairests

Team game
There's only winning and losing

Go back to Russia ya commie.

 

[MarcusP2]

Won 18 games, and the team received 93 out of a possible 144 votes.

Make of that what you will. We always seem to cop a lack of votes in a winning side.

Cause we regularly got hammered in the middle and that's where all the votes come from.

Forwards and defenders, areas we were elite at, dont get votes.

 

[George CantStandYa]

Hot Opinion

There shouldn't be any individual awards

No Brownlows
No Best & Fairests

Team game
There's only winning and losing

This sounds like a post from the Nicks thread

 

[GreyCrow]

Brodie Smith

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Brodie Smith

Age

33

Ht

194cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.5

5star

K

12.3

5star

HB

7.2

4star

M

4.2

4star

T

2.1

4star

MG

500.1

5star

D

17.1

4star

K

12.6

5star

HB

4.5

3star

M

3.5

3star

T

2.3

3star

MG

438.9

5star

D

17.2

5star

K

10.8

4star

HB

6.4

4star

M

3.8

4star

T

3.6

5star

19 votes

 

[FR0GGY]

Cause we regularly got hammered in the middle and that's where all the votes come from.

Forwards and defenders, areas we were elite at, dont get votes.

Very true

 

[StonesThrow]

Cornes voted on the rising star and only gave Curtin two votes, behind Ashcroft and Langford.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion but combined with recent comments on Dawson and the Worrell debacle, he’s shown he is too biased for these gigs.

I think Curtin got hyped up from a fairly small number of games where he was very good. Outside of that he was reasonably quiet with moments in games. Wasn't an overly strong year for rising star voting.

 

[Gtowncrow]

This award is like the all Australian award, it lost credibility years ago. The fact that arguably the best ever player to play the game in Wayne Carey never won the brownlow tells you something.

Buddy, Matthews, Carey, Ablett snr, Bartlett, Selwood, Pendlebury, Dunstall. Not a Brownlow medal between them.

The AFL has a problem in recognising good players but missing the guys who become the true ornaments. Like so many problems within the archaic organisation, hubris is it's greatest failing.

Irrelevant award now days.

P.s. but congrats to Matt Rowell. This is an attack on the AFL, not your excellent year.

 

[Gtowncrow]

I think Curtin got hyped up from a fairly small number of games where he was very good. Outside of that he was reasonably quiet with moments in games. Wasn't an overly strong year for rising star voting.

Deserving winner. He was clever and consistent. Good luck to him.

Awesome result for us to have such a talent as Dan Curtin playing for us. His size will make him our best player in a few years. Ceiling is measured in Thilthorpe levels . No less.

 

[Peter Doherty]

I think Curtin got hyped up from a fairly small number of games where he was very good. Outside of that he was reasonably quiet with moments in games. Wasn't an overly strong year for rising star voting.

Curtin was a very worthy runner up.

 

[adelaidecrows]

Won 18 games, and the team received 93 out of a possible 144 votes.

Make of that what you will. We always seem to cop a lack of votes in a winning side.

Lets be honest here. Whens the last time you can recall a game where an opposition midfielder or defender didnt have a day out, even when we win we struggle to convincingly have the top 3 players on the ground. Its because Nicks game plans are so shit, opposition players can do what they like, when they like and how they like.

 

[cleanhands]

Cornes voted on the rising star and only gave Curtin two votes, behind Ashcroft and Langford.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion but combined with recent comments on Dawson and the Worrell debacle, he’s shown he is too biased for these gigs.

Is there anything he hasn’t got his grubby little hands on, he’s worse than everywhere Eddie

 

[Interloperer]

Curtin was in the top 5 players in the competition for 4/5 games. Was relatively anonymous for half the season. And actively terrible in the remainder.

 

[daniel_4tw]

Is there anything he hasn’t got his grubby little hands on, he’s worse than everywhere Eddie

It’s pretty poor that he’s involved in AFL awards like AA, Rising Star etc.

He has well known biases (pro Port, con Crows, WB). He’s made a career out of it with rage bait suggestions.

Should have no place making impartial decisions.

But then, if we can’t get impartial decisions from the CEO to the MRO and everything in between, why should some awards matter.

 

[Redline]

I think Curtin got hyped up from a fairly small number of games where he was very good. Outside of that he was reasonably quiet with moments in games. Wasn't an overly strong year for rising star voting.

I tend to agree, he took a fair while to get going and then I thought he dropped off a bit towards the end while some of the others got better. He had a great block of games.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

Buddy, Matthews, Carey, Ablett snr, Bartlett, Selwood, Pendlebury, Dunstall. Not a Brownlow medal between them.

The AFL has a problem in recognising good players but missing the guys who become the true ornaments. Like so many problems within the archaic organisation, hubris is it's greatest failing.

Irrelevant award now days.

P.s. but congrats to Matt Rowell. This is an attack on the AFL, not your excellent year.

If you played SuperCoach and/or AFL Fantasy .....people would realise Rowell was indeed a better chance last night for the Brownlow .....far better than Naicos's season ....and Dawson's (who btw cost me a top 100 finish)

Rowell's back 2/3 of the season were superb & consistent .....a very worthy winner

Naicos realistically only had an average season .....was tagged in many games, and carried injuries