Brownlow 2024 Brownlow Medal Count - Congrats Patrick Cripps!

[Malifice]

He should have got just under or just over 30 votes. Getting 15 more votes than expected was a bit of a joke that detracts from the award.

Mate, when Woewodin won over Kouta, and Buddy didnt get close after kicking 100+ goals in a season, the critereon for the award was set.

Be a mid, be a gun, stand out, be consistent, and have no other players stealing votes off you, and you're going to poll well.

LDU polled 18 votes in like 7 games in a side that won 3 games for the year, and routinely got smashed.

Welcome to the Brownlow.

 

[Malifice]

He got 9 more votes than any other player in 100 years. You can't tell me that is right.

What other clubs had a midfield that consisted of a single gun player, and was in the top 4 for most of the year?

Imagine if Sydney had the finish they had, but only had one of Warner, Guilden or Heeney (who polled 78 votes between them)?

The player you select wins it with 50+ votes.

There were anomalies (the votes for Cripps and Daicos I've already mentioned, plus LDU's racking up votes in games North got thrashed) but they were all Mids and they will all stand out to the Umps.

Its the way it is. You need to be the best midfielder, in a side that wins a lot of games (including being your sides best in close loses), and in a side that has no other gun mids to poach votes off you.

 

[Malifice]

Everyone saying "no one's there to take votes off Cripps...."

In two of last couple of Cripps 3 vote games, Carlton lost both games and Nic Newman had 34 disposals and 12 marks, and 35 disposals and 16 marks and got zero votes...

Defenders dont get brownlow votes. No defender has ever won the Brownlow and none ever will.

 

[Sir_Loin]

Defenders dont get brownlow votes. No defender has ever won the Brownlow and none ever will.

Exactly why it should be called the Chas Brownlow midfield medal

It’s a joke unless the winner goes on to win a flag and a norm smith

 

[Osho]

Like someone also mentioned they got the Daicos’s mixed up in one game

Well, that's incredible!
One has a dainty rabbit's nose, the other a honker the size of a gumboot.

 

[Sir_Loin]

So according to the umpires if it wasn’t for Cripps the side wouldn’t have got near a finals berth. Which they fell into by the skin of their ball bag.

Fair effort

 

[sabso]

Well, that's incredible!
One has a dainty rabbit's nose, the other a honker the size of a gumboot.

one is fairly good looking, the other looks like skibidi toilet with a slice of black pudding on his head

 

[Osho]

Not really. It's the same thing every year. In order to get votes you need to be:

1. A midfielder
2. A gun
3. Stand out to the umpires
4. In a side that wins enough games.
5. In a side that has no-one else getting votes from you.
6. Be your sides best player in loses, particularly close games (to pick off the 1's and 2's).

Cripps had a consistent year, as a gun midfielder, in a team with no other gun midfielders (barring Walsh who had a down year), in a side that won a lot of games, and were he did everything he could in losses (most of which were close).

That's the way it works. No defender is ever going to win it, and for a forward to get close they'd have to kick 150 goals in a season (or have every midfielder in their team be shit, yet still win enough games to poll).

The Brownlow is not 'best player in the comp' despite what the award might call itself.

Looking like the love child of Grace Kelly and Paul Newman may also have its advantages.

 

[Worm4]

What's objectively stupid about an opinion that Cripps wasn't the best player this year?

Cripps was the best individual player for his team, for the entire season, and that's why he won by the length of the Flemington straight. That's what the brownlow is all about .
What did stand out for me was the dominance of Sydney's midfield- those 3 , collectively , have dominated the season.
I wish Cripps had some friends to help him but he doesn't. Same with Daicos - he was 30 votes clear of the next best at Collingwood. That has to be a brownlow record surely.

 

[Worm4]

So you have no probs with him getting 45 votes?

Clearly you do.
Watching all Carlton games this year, 10-12 BOGS was around the mark considering he had no mates helping his cause

 

[THECHIEFTON]

I'm confused why Bontempelli didn't get more votes.

 

[janty]

So Daicos broke the vote record as well?

 

[Tippett2Goal]

Most who support Carlton celebrate the champ, most who don't, say what a s... award it is. That's it in a nutshell.

Most people seem to have no issues with Cripps winning, they are lamenting the winning vote inflation, and particularly well known players getting votes for fairly average games.