Duffield duffs it up

[Frodo]

West Australian newspaper writer Mark Duffield today wrote an article admitting his voting was wrong.
Apparently the votes are picked up but the judges are told that they can phone in at any time up to the end of the game and change their vote. Duffield didn't. His vote card had

3) Buckley
2) Rocca
1) Lappin

He said that at the game end he would have voted :-

3) Buckley
2) Voss
1) Lappin

because after he had voted he said Rocca cramped whilst Voss was outstanding.
He feels he did the right thing because he voted 3 for Buckley and Buckley won.

But the point is that the lack of the phone call cost Voss two valuable points in the voting.

IMO Duffield duffed it.

 

[GoEagles]

Makes you wonder if other judges did the same thing (only voting for 3 quarters of the game).

 

[ant]

I read today that the votes are picked up 20 mins into the last quarter and only Dwayne Russell and Mark Duffield would have changed their votes in favour of Voss. And in the end it wouldn't have altered the Norm Smith Medal result.