2024 Brownlow Medal Thread

[cookie2]

Well done Crippa.  wonderful result. Thoroughly deserved champ! ?

[PaulP]

Sigh. Just do a google search for “Brownlow Medal.” The whining and bitching has already started.

[LP]

Didn't help that Nick was stealing Josh's votes.

Yep, there is definitely something in that, probably the only way they get clear individual recognition is if they are no longer in the same team.

If commentators jumble them up, then umpires certainly will.

Even so, many of us have been telling everyone who isn't a Bagger that this has been Cripps best season, better than his first Brownlow year, it is just that they weren't listening. Despite being a record vote, for me it wasn't unexpected.

[Lods]

You wouldn't mind having two of them

https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_p...fopt2=2022

[LP]

Sigh. Just do a google search for “Brownlow Medal.” The whining and bitching has already started.

Read it but ignore it.

Just remember most of the media commentators a glorified bloggers, not professional journos, and that is never exposed more than the day after the Brownlow when the bitch and moan about the favourite they declared not winning. They will be dishing up a bunch of largely bogus cherry-picked stats to support the case they try to make, but it doesn't change the fundamentals, the Brownlow isn't decided by the NumbNuts.

The Brownlow is B & F.

I watch a lot of games on replay, not just Carlton, I'm astounded at some of the players the media declare favourite, this year many had Bont as a certainty, but he spent less time at the coalface this year than previous, good for his longevity to be spending some time on the outside, but it's not a vote winner when you are delivered the footy by somebody else. Same applies to Daicos, fans see the fast break and finish, but somebody else won and gave him the footy more often than not. Don't get me wrong, Daicos is a star, but he benefits more from the work of others than a Cripps type.

This season from Cripps has been monumental, as elated as we may be, I doubt any of us are surprised.

As long as they don't gob-off too much it's the players winning the hard footy at the coalface that get the umpires attention, and Cripps fits the bill just like Judd did.

[Baggers]

Such a richly deserved accolade for so much commitment and hard work over many years.

Plus such an impressive attitude to life.

And what an engaging interview with Hamish then acceptance speech. Humility, gratitude, thoughtful and class personified.

[Professer E]

Clearly best player in the league this year, nice to see him recognised.  Pretty clear that he added outside hurt to his clearance game to his game this year e.g. against Port where he not only was front and centre to the umpires at the coalface, but the outside work was excellent.

But 45 votes seems excessive, as does Walsh's tally.

[Gointocarlton]

Sigh. Just do a google search for “Brownlow Medal.” The whining and bitching has already started.

People can whine all they like. Good things come to good people and Patrick is just that, a good, solid, hardworking person who was brought up the right way. Those around him, family, team mates, coaches, opposition players, opposition coaches and umpires know exactly just how good a person and player he is. Let those people judge and influence opinion, not the dingbats typing away on forums, facebook and twitter and the like. They are just ill informed and uneducated and a more worthy winner you will be hard pressed to find.

[tonyo]

I think Crippa is certainly in the discussion for greatest Blue of all time - especially the way he continues to reinvent his game (in July 2021, Leigh Matthews said of Cripps that the game may have 'passed him by' - and he's won 2 Brownlows since then......).  Umpires certainly love him, he got votes in some games where he was just part of the peloton......(Ess and Freo games spring to mind).

But, and here is the big but.  Cripps performance in the Brownlow since 2022, as remarkable as it is, underlines the deficiencies in our team. 

We need more blokes getting 4-10 votes if we are to be a top-flight contender.  Serious opponents know that shutting down Crippa and to a lesser extent Walsh is all they really need to concentrate on.  We have to spread the load more or Crippa will never get to hold the cup. 

Having got that off my chest, well done Crippa, a truly remarkable footballer, and by all accounts, a top-shelf human!

[madbluboy]

The umpires gave him BOG in 12 games.
Here at CSC we voted him our best player in 11 games.