2024 Brownlow Medal Thread

[Thryleon]

Here ends the lesson.

All the other brownlow fancies are well looked after by the umps.  Usually cripps gets penalised in similar circumstances and just gets on with it.

[LP]

Here ends the lesson.

All the other brownlow fancies are well looked after by the umps.  Usually cripps gets penalised in similar circumstances and just gets on with it.

A Hawthorn mate laughs and stirs me about Cripps getting pinged.

He said Cripps will bend down on the run to scoop up the pill one handed, but because of his size the little blokes try tackle him and Cripps gets pinged for high contact from his shoulder on the tackler. He thinks it's a great joke! According to him, he thinks the umpires see Cripps bending down to pick up the pill and judge it as ducking!

[kruddler]

If commentators jumble them up, then umpires certainly will.

Reminds me of the Hoskings when they both played for us.

I believe it was Jess Hosking who was credited for something like 13 tackles in a game. Sarah had 1.
Pretty sure the stats guys didn't know the difference (they are twins)

It happens

[IvanAwfulbigone]

Lets not let facts get in the way of good stories by the naysayers.

Oh my god, the negativity. Most of us saw with our own eyes that he almost ALWAYS single-handedly influenced games that were in the balance (and dominated games that were not).

Having watched footy for 50+ years I’ve never been more certain of a Brownlow winner. He deserved every vote and he deserved to win by the length of the straight.

Why does the QB at the Super Bowl inevitably win the MVP? Because they have/had the biggest influence. Anyone whingeing about this has no feel for the game or is a Collingwood supporter.

His best quarters are invariably his 3rd and 4th so his efforts would be fresh in the umps minds when they cast votes (sans stats as others have pointed out) after the siren.
Whenever he’s pinged with a free against he just gives the umps that cheeky “you got me” look, gives the ball straight back and gets on with it. That counts for a lot. He is inscrutably fair and I agree with Gerard Whately - it’s a unique quirk that you have to be the “fairest” in this award and it would be a shame to lose that history.

EDIT: I just heard Whateley has been one of those denigrating Crippa’s incredible achievement. I take back what I said. Fuck him.

[Lods]

FFS  >  >  >  :

As I watched the count finish up last night and the decisive nature of the result I thought to myself...

"Well, this time no-one will have any doubt about the win...it was so clear cut."
I was wrong. :  :

Talk about whingers....or should that be 'wankers'
The guy was favourite
He's had a superb season
He's the All-Australian Vice Captain

FcK em

[Sub-Zero]

Others can't handle the fact that this unique footballer is ours. For the rest of his career too.
As for the Hosking twins and the Daicos brothers, there is obviously a noticeable difference between them. The Hosking sisters are identical. There is a 2 inch difference in height between the Daicos pair. And three umpires as well. Maybe one umpire gets overruled by two blind umpires sometimes?

[kruddler]

Others can't handle the fact that this unique footballer is ours. For the rest of his career too.
As for the Hosking twins and the Daicos brothers, there is obviously a noticeable difference between them. The Hosking sisters are identical. There is a 2 inch difference in height between the Daicos pair. And three umpires as well. Maybe one umpire gets overruled by two blind umpires sometimes?

I can tell the hoskings apart pretty easily, but thats because i spent time trying to.

The umpires just proved that they are blind.

[Micky0]

Oh my god, the negativity. Most of us saw with our own eyes that he almost ALWAYS single-handedly influenced games that were in the balance (and dominated games that were not).

Don’t worry at all anyone - you’ve said it above ^

WE saw it with OUR OWN EYES.

I am very sure majority of Supporters of other clubs do not watch every Carlton game! They have no idea of what we see week in and out and the level
Of awe we still have when he bursts out of the centre or piles the team on his back to try to win.

So who cares what they say, forever it will be in history that he is a dual Brownlow medallist! No one can take that from him or Carlton.

He’s magnificent - all of my non Carlton friends and my workmates today are in awe of him! Those keyboard warriors are most likely mostly salty Collingwood supporters!

They tried (and failed) to get their guys up for goal and mark of the year when there were plenty of better ones so are even more salty with the result!

[madbluboy]

He was the favourite  what's the problem?

[kruddler]

He was the favourite  what's the problem?

He embarrassed everyone else is the problem.

If 'your man' gets beaten, you can say its because.....*blah*

If 'your man' gets humiliated by comparison, you can't say a thing.
Its easier to complain than it is to accept that Cripps is genuinely the best player in the comp this year.