Mega Thread Congratulations Matt Priddis

[clogged]

This Brownlow is growing on me. I see this as the anti-AFL medal.

1st Priddis
2nd Ablett and Franklin.

Daggy player from a club the AFL have repeatedly shown over the years they don't care much for, beats two superstars from AFL pet projects.

The marketing department at the AFL would have been devastated. Sucked in, and well trolled played umps.

 

[flyinghi64]

Really happy for him. Seems like a cracking bloke, and a great story.

Interestingly, Josh Kennedy and Matt Priddis stats are identical. Yet one is considered one of the best players in the league, the other is considered a battler.

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Priddis's main knock is that he is not a great user of the ball, yet Kennedy is in the same boat.

Wow Priddis has a higher disposal efficiency and less clangers per game, yet he butchers the ball???? What the hell does Kennedy, one of the elite midfielders, do with the ball then?
The more you look at it the more you realise he was a deserving Brownlow winner and the AA selectors look to have been a little blinded by players reputations rather than what they actually have done.

 

[Goosecat]

The Internet is responsible for so much, what an amazing invention. The ability to give voice to each and everyone's opinion, as opposed to the past where you had to actually know something about a topic before you could gain a voice. Now you can just sit behind your keyboard look up a few things and pretend you know something.
Congrats Matt.
Subiaco Best and Fairest
West Coast Eagles Best and Fairest
Co Club Captain
Sandover Medallist
Simpson Medallist
Brownlow Medallist
Obviously can't play.

 

[Docker Alyssa]

Because blokes like Lance Franklin actually win their teams football games.

I think it can be argued for the amount of games he won off his own boot (5-6?) he did get full votes for that. He just didn't get enough consistency votes outside his match-winning games. Being a forward its hard to. Ask richo.

 

[pazza]

Wow Priddis has a higher disposal efficiency and less clangers per game, yet he butchers the ball???? What the hell does Kennedy, one of the elite midfielders, do with the ball then?
The more you look at it the more you realise he was a deserving Brownlow winner and the AA selectors look to have been a little blinded by players reputations rather than what they actually have done.

Indeed.

Perhaps the AA Team should be announced in grand final week and if the Brownlow winner isn't in the squad, he gets put in there as soon as the Brownlow winner is announced.

 

[Kram]

I'm happy for he bloke to win the Brownlow but leaving him out of the AA final 22 was definitely the correct decision.

 

[JackOutback]

I'm happy for he bloke to win the Brownlow but leaving him out of the AA final 22 was definitely the correct decision.

I'm not so sure about that. I could definitely name six midfielders I would prefer to have in a team ahead of Priddis on skill and ability, but the AA is supposed to represent the best players across the course of the year, just like the Brownlow rewards the best player across the whole year. I might prefer Ablett and Josh Kennedy but they were injured, I might prefer Judd on ability, but he had a quiet year etc. Priddis was very good and extremely consistent for much of the year and that is what AA is supposed to represent.

 

[Docker Alyssa]

I feel like everybody won....

- AFL doesn't look silly suspending fyfe because of his second suspension occuring through wreckless "I'm already rubbed out" thinking.
- AA team best 22 based on "perceived" best team in the comp
- Priddis individually recognised for his epic season in an up and down year for the conventional best.
- Priddis beating fyfe in votes just for purist sake.
- Fyfe recognised by the players, his peers, as the best player of the year
- Gray recognised for his season by the coaches

 

[Kram]

I'm not so sure about that. I could definitely name six midfielders I would prefer to have in a team ahead of Priddis on skill and ability, but the AA is supposed to represent the best players across the course of the year, just like the Brownlow rewards the best player across the whole year. I might prefer Ablett and Josh Kennedy but they were injured, I might prefer Judd on ability, but he had a quiet year etc. Priddis was very good and extremely consistent for much of the year and that is what AA is supposed to represent.

I'm more than fine with someone getting the umpire's medal by working very hard, having the advantages of playing every single game and being right under their noses, plus only being eligible with a clean tribunal record.

But imo the All Australian should be about the actual best players and team made up from the 2014 AFL season for a hypothetical game. As long as they have still played the majority of the season they should be picked from those footballers.

 

[WaltzingMatera]

I'm more than fine with someone getting the umpire's medal by working very hard, having the advantages of playing every single game and being right under their noses, plus only being eligible with a clean tribunal record.

But imo the All Australian should be about the actual best players and team made up from the 2014 AFL season for a hypothetical game. As long as they have still played the majority of the season they should be picked from those footballers.

This could be talked about in a different thread but does anybody really know then what the AA Team is based on.

If it is the supposedly best players in the AFL then you could make the team at the start of the year and what's the difference?

Is it to award players who beat their peers for a certain position? Then how can they shoe-horn players into positions they rarely play at year by year?

Is it to make an imaginary team if they were going to play in a World Cup? Then you would need to look at the strategy of the type of team to make your selections and look at how many inside & how many outside midfielders you need, etc.

Or do you just pick the guys who performed the best by saying we need 8 midfielders, 6 defenders or something so who performed the best through the year, etc?

In regards to Priddis, the reality is probably a combination of AA Team panel not looking closely at week by week performances, some biases and some hype on players that what the reason he didn't get him in. Not a good look for them.

 

[Underdog]

I must be one if the few that doesn't care about the non-selection. The AA is largely irrelevant compared to the Brownlow.

I personally think Pendlebury's year was very overrated. I'd have him out. That opens a spot for Priddis or Parker.

I actually think the non-selection of MacKenzie is worse than Priddis.

 

[Goosecat]

I must be one if the few that doesn't care about the non-selection. The AA is largely irrelevant compared to the Brownlow.

I personally think Pendlebury's year was very overrated. I'd have him out. That opens a spot for Priddis or Parker.

I actually think the non-selection of MacKenzie is worse than Priddis.

I think you're right. In years to come it's the Brownlow that holds the reverence, not AA selection.
Mackenzie was a bit stiff to.

 

[The_Reaper]

I must be one if the few that doesn't care about the non-selection. The AA is largely irrelevant compared to the Brownlow.

I personally think Pendlebury's year was very overrated. I'd have him out. That opens a spot for Priddis or Parker.

I actually think the non-selection of MacKenzie is worse than Priddis.

Agreed.

 

[peppy la pew]

The Internet is responsible for so much, what an amazing invention. The ability to give voice to each and everyone's opinion, as opposed to the past where you had to actually know something about a topic before you could gain a voice. Now you can just sit behind your keyboard look up a few things and pretend you know something.
Congrats Matt.
Subiaco Best and Fairest
West Coast Eagles Best and Fairest
Co Club Captain
Sandover Medallist
Simpson Medallist
Brownlow Medallist
Obviously can't play.

Exactly the reason I cannot understand the way a certain group of posters on your board, bag the bejesus out of him.

 

[Hairy Lager]

But from the fans from his own club? It saddens me tbh.

Instead of embracing what is a high point for the club in a down year and being happy for a hard working and genuine bloke, the same peanuts continue to shit on him and try and take it away from him. They can't put aside their vendetta for one day and be genuinely happy for the bloke.

Same flogs will sprout how mighty the Eagles are with 3 Premierships and 3 Brownlows in X amount of years though, these so called supporters are pole smoking junkies.

 

[Goosecat]

Exactly the reason I cannot understand the way a certain group of posters on your board, bag the bejesus out of him.

Understanding that would require a Psych work-up.
I prefer to think of it in terms of a more oblique quote.
"The trouble with the world is, the world is full of F**k-wits"

 

[big bootaaaaah]

Which doesn't fit:

Goodes
Ablett
Judd
Swan
Bartel
Buckley
Hird
Voss
Priddis

That's easy there is 2 - Judd when at Carlton He should have been rubbed out for that elbow on pavlich. And Hird should be stripped for probably being on enhancers. Or were you alluding to Priddis? If so you have my sympathy

 

[clogged]

Exactly the reason I cannot understand the way a certain group of posters on your board, bag the bejesus out of him.

Understanding that would require a Psych work-up.
I prefer to think of it in terms of a more oblique quote.
"The trouble with the world is, the world is full of F**k-wits"

Having seen some of the best midfielders of all time pull on a jumper for them in their short history, I think a few can't quite get their head around the fact that there are times when you don't have the absolute best players in the comp playing for you, and Priddis being the best of a mediocre bunch cops the wrath. He is both a standout and a scapegoat.

I think if you've supported a club that had Victorian clubs running scared for decades it might be hard to adjust as a fan. West Coast's near 20 year long reign as the most professional and therefore most club in the competition is over, because many of the previously semi-professional VFL clubs have reached West Coast's level of professionalism, and have natural advantages that clubs like West Coast lack.

 

[garlic munchers]

Same flogs will sprout how mighty the Eagles are with 3 Premierships and 3 Brownlows in X amount of years though, these so called supporters are pole smoking junkies.

Hairy lasso, pole smoking junkies, is there something you want to come out of the closet on?

Its not wrong for you to admit it, just as there is nothing wrong with club supporters quoting the success of their respective clubs!

 

[Goosecat]

Having seen some of the best midfielders of all time pull on a jumper for them in their short history, I think a few can't quite get their head around the fact that there are times when you don't have the absolute best players in the comp playing for you, and Priddis being the best of a mediocre bunch cops the wrath. He is both a standout and a scapegoat.

I think if you've supported a club that had Victorian clubs running scared for decades it might be hard to adjust as a fan. West Coast's near 20 year long reign as the most professional and therefore most club in the competition is over, because many of the previously semi-professional VFL clubs have reached West Coast's level of professionalism, and have natural advantages that clubs like West Coast lack.

He's the best clearance player I've ever seen but I take your point about Eagles supporter expectations and Vic clubs stepping up.
Although considering some of the Essendon shenanigans and some of Bombers points about everyone thinking they were a well run club when in fact they weren't, might indicate a number of Vic teams may still have a way to go.
Anyway Congrats again Matt.

 

[big bootaaaaah]

I can't believe the amount of people saying he's not a worthy winner
If you ain't worthy you ain't getting votes it's that simple.
If so called better players lost it for themselves it's not his fault. He was obviously better for not missing games or having flat periods. Therefore give the man the respect he's worthy of and why try to ruin it for him because of facts out of his control which others brought on to themselves?

 

[Hairy Lager]

Hairy lasso, pole smoking junkies, is there something you want to come out of the closet on?

Its not wrong for you to admit it, just as there is nothing wrong with club supporters quoting the success of their respective clubs!

I have 6 kids with my lovely wife thanks Muncher, go find your own piece of arse, but thanks for caring. Be reasonable, though you can't be plunging in the knife with one hand and lauding our success with the other.

 

[Goosecat]

I have 6 kids with my lovely wife thanks Muncher, go find your own piece of arse, but thanks for caring. Be reasonable, though you can't be plunging in the knife with one hand and lauding our success with the other.

Who says you cant? That's multi-tasking

 

[kane249]

I have 6 kids with my lovely wife thanks Muncher, go find your own piece of arse, but thanks for caring. Be reasonable, though you can't be plunging in the knife with one hand and lauding our success with the other.

6 kids? Jesus dude you should have got Foxtel instead, would have worked out a lot cheaper in the long run

 

[kranky al]

I can't believe the amount of people saying he's not a worthy winner
If you ain't worthy you ain't getting votes it's that simple.
If so called better players lost it for themselves it's not his fault. He was obviously better for not missing games or having flat periods. Therefore give the man the respect he's worthy of and why try to ruin it for him because of facts out of his control which others brought on to themselves?

Wc vs gc - how he even got a vote in that game is beyond me