Game Day 2024 Brownlow - AFL & Nmfc

[Ligma]

The Cripps bootlicking is crazy

 

[Devington]

Naicos 38, would have won it outright any other year, boo-hoo!

My brain didn't even click with that. Not only would he have won it any other year, but won it with the highest ever count.

Prior to tonight the record was 36 votes.

2 players broke that!

insanity.

 

[Liam Boy]

You can’t tell me that this bloke is that good. He’s just not.

an under-discussed aspect of brownlow voting is that the umpires are way, way worse at voting than they used to be. the reason these marquee players rack up massive vote totals is that the umpires don't have the brain space to look back on the game and decide who the best players actually were because they're running more, considering more weird little rule interpretations way more than ever before. so they just default to big names and go "oh yeah he had a lot of the ball didn't he". Feels like almost every year a player breaks the vote total record now, it's going to get to the point where Nick Daicos or Harley Reid poll a perfect season because the umpires were too busy watching every player's ankle for an infringement of the new socks down rule.

it's harder to be an umpire than it's ever been, I think that's just obviously true. Why are they still expected to do this? It's not like it's a suburban sport where they're the only officials that are a constant of every game.

 

[roos_fanatic08]

Absolutely no doubt that Cripps is a gun. But his season this year was nothing on GAJ’s best, Judd or Robert Harvey’s back to back.

The voting is ridiculous. Needs to be done by a 3 person independent panel rather than the umpires.

Laughable that Dillon’s missus put her foot in it by saying Bont wasn’t in the running.

 

[Marstermind]

Absolute sham of an award. Has been for years.

The AFL is trolling itself.

The award is a relic. The voting system moronic. And the broadcast tedious.

Other than that it's OK I guess.

 

[The Nostradamus]

LDU 18 votes was impressive
Sheezel 15

 

[FootySmartSimpson]

Don't think it's too different to a guy who gets 18 votes from a team that wins only 3 games.

Was Cripps three times as good as Harry? No.

The Brownlow is famous for the fact that if you are losing, you rarely poll. This guy smashed the record for votes. Was his season better than any of the 10 best seasons from an individual player? I doubt it.

 

[Lomas]

‘Every time you go out there you are judged’ I wouldn’t be so upset about the umpires’ judgement Paddy.

 

[Masked Avenger]

Good player Cripps - but an average of 2 Brownlow votes per game is insane.

Peak Wayne Carey wouldn't have got that many votes playing in the East Gippsland Football League.

 

[zoomba23]

Crap thing is, it has such a prestigious spot in the footy calendar that people aren't going to stop watching it or turning up, and it's not going to lose any of its glitzy appeal. It's got too long a history to fade into obscurity.

Cripps with these votes would've finished second in 1977, a year where players could get 6 votes per game because each field umpire gave separate votes. ****ing lol

 

[Lomas]

Was Cripps three times as good as Harry? No.

The Brownlow is famous for the fact that if you are losing, you rarely poll. This guy smashed the record for votes. Was his season better than any of the 10 best seasons from an individual player? I doubt it.

Yep, the last few years have been too heavily weighted to losing team’s guns.

 

[roos_fanatic08]

Good player Cripps - but an average of 2 Brownlow votes per game is insane.

Peak Wayne Carey wouldn't have got that many votes playing in the East Gippsland Football League.

Yep. If you are talking dominant seasons Cripps season doesn’t even compare to the likes of Carey, Gary Ablett and even Jason Dunstall.

 

[Liam Boy]

I feel like media people think they can't say the Brownlow should be taken off the umpires without it being interpreted as a slight on them. But it's not, the game's harder to umpire than it's ever been and that's why they shouldn't have this extra responsibility because it's not fair to them.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Is Hamish autistic

 

[The Nostradamus]

that could be the cringiest thing I’ve ever seen

2, 2 ,2 what a *******

 

[Lomas]

Is Hamish autistic

Don’t be like that

 

[Marstermind]

LDU 18 votes was impressive
Sheezel 15

And the rest combined...9

 

[shintemaster]

Good player Cripps - but an average of 2 Brownlow votes per game is insane.

Peak Wayne Carey wouldn't have got that many votes playing in the East Gippsland Football League.

Agree completely.

I'm also a little devastated Heeney didn't win so we could enjoy some more salty, salty tears.

 

[Liam Boy]

Don’t be like that

I mean he's clearly autistic so he's allowed to say that. And I'm clearly autistic so I'm allowed to say this.

 

[Lomas]

Agree completely.

I'm also a little devastated Heeney didn't win so we could enjoy some more salty, salty tears.

Mine, because of the $101.00 bet I put on him?

 

[Disco Dew]

Just catching up after dropping a brownlow down the toilet.

45 votes for cripps?
That’s ****ed

 

[Lomas]

I mean he's clearly autistic so he's allowed to say that. And I'm clearly autistic so I'm allowed to say this.

Yeah, and you all have a mate….

 

[hilly]

Is Hamish autistic

Nah just a shit host.

 

[Disco Dew]

I mean he's clearly autistic so he's allowed to say that. And I'm clearly autistic so I'm allowed to say this.

If I’m being honest, I assume everyone posting on bigfooty is autistic.

 

[Ligma]

If I’m being honest, I assume everyone posting on bigfooty is autistic.

I’m actually acoustic