2024 Brownlow Medal Thread

[Gointocarlton]

1. If Daicos had won, no one would have said anything today.
2. The more I think about it, who better to vote on the Brownlow than the 4 or 5 blokes actually running with the players. Actually out there hearing the bumps that blokes like Crippa cops, see him close up plying his craft in a phone box with multiple players trying to bring the big bull down. Who? The numbskulls on the microphones sitting in the commentary boxes that actually need bionoculars to see anything? Turn it up. Leave the farken thing as it is, the umps, for all the crap they cop, are the best placed and closest to the action to give out the votes. Just because they dont give everyones favourite player a vote, doesn't mean they made a mistake. They clear saw something better from someone else.

[BluePhantom]

Patrick Cripps is the Fairest AND the Best for 2024
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Crippa

[Gointocarlton]

Patrick Cripps is the Fairest AND the Best for 2024
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True. The other thing to consider is that he has been uninjured ALL year and played every game. Previous years he was banged up at times. His body was in tip top shape all year meaning maximum games played meaning maximum votes possible obtained.

[DJC]

True. The other thing to consider is that he has been uninjured ALL year and played every game. Previous years he was banged up at times. His body was in tip top shape all year meaning maximum games played meaning maximum votes possible obtained.

I’m not so sure about that G2C.  While he wasn’t carrying an injury, as he has done in the past, he was sore and often took his time to get up after tackles and bumps … and he is targeted by the opposition.

That makes his win all the more meritorious ?

[Thryleon]

Could we see cripps do a kouta as he gets on?

Sure, he's a in and under mid, but could we play him as a chb/chf, for a half then push him in ball second half to change the game ala kouta?

[LP]

Cripps isn't the same contested mark that Kouta was, it's a big part of the KPP role.

[Micky0]

Heard Eddie McGuire on the radio this morning - they asked him whether the Brownlow should be changed and he said no it’s the umpires award. They said should the umps be given the stat sheets and he said no because even with the stat sheets it shows the midfielders get most of the ball. He then went on to mention a show on tomorrow and said they’ll have Bont Cripps and Daicos - coaches winner, players winner and umpires winner.

He was actually quite good.

I can almost guarantee if Daicos hadve won with those votes there would only be headlines of HOW GOOD IS HE!? RECORD BREAKING SUPERSTAR. The media is garbage.

[madbluboy]

The coaches and umpires pretty much came up with the same result. Daicos just pipped Cripps.

The players award is actually the most flawed. They just pick who they think is best.

[Lods]

You can't go past the Lou Richards Medal for giving the best result.   ...this year.

(although that's a mid-fielders award too.)