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Had a couple of minutes up my sleeve so I thought I would have a bo peep at the Brownlow votes game by game - wish I hadn't because now I am full of angst.
Did you realise how the umpires voted in the games Richmond won -
Round 2 Tigers beat Hawks by 14 points
votes are
3 - P Everitt, H
2 - K Pettifer, R
1 - L Franklin, H
Round 3 Tigers beat Bulldogs by 4 points
votes are
3 - N Eagleton, WB
2 - D Giansiracusa, WB
1 - N Brown, R
Round 8 Tigers flog Magpies by 35 points
votes are
3 - N Brown, R
2 - S Prestigiacomo, Coll
1 - P Licuria, Coll
In all other games we polled as expected - that is if we flogged the other team we got all the votes 3-2-1 if we got flogged they got all votes 3-2-1 if it was close a winning team player got the 3 votes a losing team player got the 2 votes and a winning team player got the 1 vote.
What have the Tigers done to the umpires to alienate them so much that the umpires drop convention of allocating the 3 votes to a player on the winning team when the Tigers win?
A check of all 176 games this year shows that the umpires strayed from the convention of allocating 3 votes to a winning team player just 21 times - that is 11.93% of all games this year. Demons, Saints, Swans were the worst hit as they won 3 games each where 1 of their players did not get the 3 votes. Tigers had two games.
I am astonished that a team can win a game reasonably comfortably and not get the best player on the ground. I know it does happen - and usually when the winning team has an even contribution from all 22 players (which the Tigers rarely had this year) and the losing team has 1 standout player.
Maybe my concept of voting conventions are outdated - I remember when greats like Bob Skilton (tripple Brownlow Medalist) - when the Swans were not a great team - polling many 2 votes as well as a couple of 3 votes to win Charlie.
Maybe I have been following the Tigers too long (Since 1963) and have developed a persecution complex!
However IMO - The modern day game is throwing up many anomolies......
Did you realise how the umpires voted in the games Richmond won -
Round 2 Tigers beat Hawks by 14 points
votes are
3 - P Everitt, H
2 - K Pettifer, R
1 - L Franklin, H
Round 3 Tigers beat Bulldogs by 4 points
votes are
3 - N Eagleton, WB
2 - D Giansiracusa, WB
1 - N Brown, R
Round 8 Tigers flog Magpies by 35 points
votes are
3 - N Brown, R
2 - S Prestigiacomo, Coll
1 - P Licuria, Coll
In all other games we polled as expected - that is if we flogged the other team we got all the votes 3-2-1 if we got flogged they got all votes 3-2-1 if it was close a winning team player got the 3 votes a losing team player got the 2 votes and a winning team player got the 1 vote.
What have the Tigers done to the umpires to alienate them so much that the umpires drop convention of allocating the 3 votes to a player on the winning team when the Tigers win?
A check of all 176 games this year shows that the umpires strayed from the convention of allocating 3 votes to a winning team player just 21 times - that is 11.93% of all games this year. Demons, Saints, Swans were the worst hit as they won 3 games each where 1 of their players did not get the 3 votes. Tigers had two games.
I am astonished that a team can win a game reasonably comfortably and not get the best player on the ground. I know it does happen - and usually when the winning team has an even contribution from all 22 players (which the Tigers rarely had this year) and the losing team has 1 standout player.
Maybe my concept of voting conventions are outdated - I remember when greats like Bob Skilton (tripple Brownlow Medalist) - when the Swans were not a great team - polling many 2 votes as well as a couple of 3 votes to win Charlie.
Maybe I have been following the Tigers too long (Since 1963) and have developed a persecution complex!
However IMO - The modern day game is throwing up many anomolies......