⚡MINI: The Brownlow NEEDS To Change!

Max Burford thinks the upset win last night was because of the way votes are cast for the Brownlow.. and it's about time things change!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Last night, Matt Rowel from Gold Coast won the Brownlow Medal.
Congratulations to him, first time winner. We love a first
time winning something a little bit different and he was unexpected.
I love an unexpected winner.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
I don't even know who he was.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
He's a little bit of a footy weirdo, Matt Rowe.
He's the guy that do you remember a vision a
few years ago of a dude eating grass? Yeah, yeah,
player eating grass. That was him.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, I just saw that this morning and on my Instagram.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
He's the same dude that was also on the field
before a game, like with a little diary and he
was writing notes in a little diary. Oh.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
He's like spiritual, sort of likes to be grounded.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
A different cat. Good player, great player, according to the umpires,
the best player in the AFL, which is the problem
because he was not the best player of the entire year.
We need to change the way that the Brownlow Medal
has decided. At the moment, the Brownlow Medal is decided
by the umpires. They get together at the end of
the game. Straight after the game, they're not allowed to
look at any stats or anything. They're not allowed to

(01:06):
talk to people, and they go who did you think
deserve three votes? Who did you think deserve two votes?
Who do you think deserve one vote? They all come
to a consensus and those votes are locked away at
the end of the game. Put him in a armor
guard container and they don't get touched until Brown.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
That night, until they've read out like vote one.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Vote seven currently decided. They are wrong almost all the
time the umpires. The way that you decide the normal
Smith Medalist, which is the best player in the Grand Final,
is that you have a group of five or six
people that are sitting in the stands watching and their
past legends, and no one ever argues with the norm
Smith medallist.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
But why the umpire's wrong?

Speaker 1 (01:43):
This is how it's always been. The umpires are wrong
because last night Matt Row was getting votes in games
that he shouldn't have been getting votes in. He was
getting votes because he plays as a midfielder. He's right
in front of him all the time, he's hard, he's
on the footy all the time. He was not the
best player. Best example of this is. There was a
game between Adelaide and Gold Coast where Jordan Dawson, who

(02:08):
was the Crow captain, best player, he had thirty one touches.
He had like twelve six tackles, five marks, six clearance,
is the best player on the ground, Matt Row. I've
got the list of who was the best rated player
on the ground statistically, Matt Rau is down there in
fourteenth in that game. But for some reason he was
in one or two of the umpire's minds.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
So you say it doesn't matter about stats. Then allowed
to look at the stats. So maybe they go on,
Maybe they go on like what I do, I got
on heart with everything and they think he's a nice guy.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Let that he's the nicest guy to win the round
creased a few palms the worst and the reason that
I reckon. They may actually seriously look at changing this.
Last night there was a game earlier, in the probably
game of the year, Saint Kilda played Melbourne and in
the last quarter Saint Kilda came back from about seven
goals down.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
They were on fire.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Nazaiah Wanganeen Miller, who's the South Australia places for Saint Kilda,
kicked two goals in the last minute. He had like
thirty six disposals. He was it was not only the man,
he was not only the best player on the round.
It was the best individual performance of the year, voted
by like a whole bunch of footy shows and everything.
On the day he got two votes and the entire
room was like, what se killed in Melbourne? Melbourne seeper

(03:21):
tracker one vote Sekilda, n Wangon and Miller are.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Two votes Melbourne j n in three votes. When the
entire crowd.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Is reacting like that, you know that the umpires have
made a mistakes and that someone in the crowd should
be like, hey, just flip those two a round.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
So what are you saying? Then you're saying the umpires
shouldn't be voting. Umpires should not be they're on the round.
They're not seeing the game like we're seeing the game.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Umpires should no longer vote on the brown Lay Medal.
It should be decided by I don't care, an independent
panel of legends, people watching the game from the outside,
who can have a bit of an influence from the stats,
can still have the eye test. That's who should decide
the brown leamit and who should have won last night.
I Reckon Dawson should have gone close, or Nick Dacos.
They're up there, but Raul beat them.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Some not abby with I feel sorry for him.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
He's great.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Imagine though, you win it and everyone's like, oh no,
you don't deserve it, the poor guy. It's embarrassing. Pips
fault