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Roast The Brownlow has no credibility left
- Thread starter BigVic
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imagine running up and down an oval for 2 hours, constantly stopping to stare at guys' feet to make sure they don't take even the slightest step off the mark, honing your mind-reading powers to judge "intent," juggling the 3 new rule interpretations the officials drummed into you during the week, trying to make sure you don't botch the bounces and throws too badly, constantly mentally steeling yourself against the 20-30k rabid flogs screaming insults at you, and then being asked who played well. you wouldn't know! you'd just default to the big name who you saw marching it out of your stoppages. why do they still make the umpires vote on it?
Like, it's not a slight or an insult or taking anything away from them. This isn't a suburban league anymore, they can employ full time officials who can focus on who's playing well and assign votes for the league B&F. It doesn't have to be the umpires medal, I think it's honestly unfair to put that extra strain on them. 45 votes for Cripps is beyond ridiculous but honestly 38 for Daicos is too, getting 30 votes used to be a crazy blowout and it's not like the league was just way more even 10-20 years ago. These are the numbers you get when the umpire isn't sure who to give votes to so they just pick the most obvious players that get the most media attention.
Like, it's not a slight or an insult or taking anything away from them. This isn't a suburban league anymore, they can employ full time officials who can focus on who's playing well and assign votes for the league B&F. It doesn't have to be the umpires medal, I think it's honestly unfair to put that extra strain on them. 45 votes for Cripps is beyond ridiculous but honestly 38 for Daicos is too, getting 30 votes used to be a crazy blowout and it's not like the league was just way more even 10-20 years ago. These are the numbers you get when the umpire isn't sure who to give votes to so they just pick the most obvious players that get the most media attention.
Add on top of all that the fact that the umps aren't allowed to look at any stats before they vote.
Yep terrible voting. But not as bad Daicos getting votes in a game he was subbed off (with only 15 disposals).
Another head scratcher is Daicos getting 2 votes in a loss to Sydney with only 26 touches, 3 tackles, 2 clearances.
Whilst Chad Warner got 0 votes in the winning team with 33 touches, 2 goals, 8 clearances.
Ever since the AFL banned umpires from looking at stats after the game the Brownlow count has been an absolute farce.
Nothing prohibits the umps from keeping their own mental tally of player stats though.
Cleansweep17
Norm Smith Medallist
- Dec 20, 2023
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The AFL will fix it. Not because they care about it though, they just don’t want to look bad.
No doubt the winner in 2025 will have 30-35 votes and it won’t be Cripps. The AFL will manipulate it to be so.
No doubt the winner in 2025 will have 30-35 votes and it won’t be Cripps. The AFL will manipulate it to be so.
- Dec 9, 2015
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He got off the chain for about 5 minutes in the 3rd, terrible game apart from that, quietest for the year
1 vote
- Sep 30, 2015
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Not sure why people take it seriously in the first place, it's always had no merit as an award decided arbitrarily by umpires who never played or coached AFL.
