Brownlow Night. Goodes Wins and Some Other Notes
Sydney's Adam Goodes won another Brownlow medal. His best on ground for the final round got him the votes needed to win, and he finished 3 votes ahead of Scott West. Goodes won with 26 votes.
An interesting note is that Jonathan Brown had 13 votes, but he only played around half a season. Something to remember for next year.
Kerr was ineligible, but had 22 votes. That was one more vote than Judd.
West lost votes to Brad Johnson, Johnson had 19 votes. In contrast to that, no Sydney player other than Goodes reached double-figures for votes.
Sam Mitchell had 13 votes, he could be a player like Greg Williams and win a Brownlow due to his many tough possessions.
Another player who is a chance to win in future seasons is Pavlich of Fremantle. He had 15 votes.
Other highlights, or lowlights of the night, included:
Andrew Demetriou yelling out the votes, maybe he thought his microphone wasn't working although he probably didn't need it.
The Hird and Voss kids were interviewed, and their favourite players were Judd, Cox and Lynch of West Coast.
Demetriou trying to break a speed record for reading out the names, maybe he wanted to finish early to go to the opera, or maybe Channel 10 wanted to make sure The Shadow movie started on time.
Scott West was interviewed during the count, while he was a favourite of most there the people at the table behind him were a bit unkind with their gestures.
Demetriou was a bit excited, sometimes the players and their correct teams didn't come out right. "Sydney: N Riewoldt", the Swans have enough without adding him.
If memory serves me right, for some parts of the show Channel 10 was playing the theme music to the TV show Iron Chef as background music for some of their stories.
Demetriou tried to build it up with his pauses for effect, it wasn't the best but for round 22 it was "1 vote Sydney", long pause, "A", long pause, and then "Buchanan". That got the crowd excited.
The TV commercial with the plane passengers being told, "we will not land the plane until Carlton win the premiership" was amusing too.
An interesting note is that Jonathan Brown had 13 votes, but he only played around half a season. Something to remember for next year.
Kerr was ineligible, but had 22 votes. That was one more vote than Judd.
West lost votes to Brad Johnson, Johnson had 19 votes. In contrast to that, no Sydney player other than Goodes reached double-figures for votes.
Sam Mitchell had 13 votes, he could be a player like Greg Williams and win a Brownlow due to his many tough possessions.
Another player who is a chance to win in future seasons is Pavlich of Fremantle. He had 15 votes.
Other highlights, or lowlights of the night, included:
Andrew Demetriou yelling out the votes, maybe he thought his microphone wasn't working although he probably didn't need it.
The Hird and Voss kids were interviewed, and their favourite players were Judd, Cox and Lynch of West Coast.
Demetriou trying to break a speed record for reading out the names, maybe he wanted to finish early to go to the opera, or maybe Channel 10 wanted to make sure The Shadow movie started on time.
Scott West was interviewed during the count, while he was a favourite of most there the people at the table behind him were a bit unkind with their gestures.
Demetriou was a bit excited, sometimes the players and their correct teams didn't come out right. "Sydney: N Riewoldt", the Swans have enough without adding him.
If memory serves me right, for some parts of the show Channel 10 was playing the theme music to the TV show Iron Chef as background music for some of their stories.
Demetriou tried to build it up with his pauses for effect, it wasn't the best but for round 22 it was "1 vote Sydney", long pause, "A", long pause, and then "Buchanan". That got the crowd excited.
The TV commercial with the plane passengers being told, "we will not land the plane until Carlton win the premiership" was amusing too.
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That was probably West's last chance as Cooney should become a big vote-getter.
Goodwin was unlucky, led Adelaide in clearances, long kicks, frees for, but Mattner got the votes.
I don't get too excited about the Brownlow, it is good for its tradition though.
But when Matthews, Kernahan and Ablett don't win the award it says something about the process.
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Realistically the umpires should be less biased than other groups that could vote. But it is a unique award in sports and I hope it continues with not just the "best" but also the "fairest" for many seasons to come.