Now, the Brownlow Medal is a maligned award, partly because of the fact only one position can win the award and also, the quality of player that has won the award has tended to vary it pays to be consistent rather than mercurially damaging in some seasons. Tim Membrey - 3 Carlton recorded its biggest win since 2011 with a 108-point triumph. The early-season favourites for the award are rightfully Nick Daicos, which would be an incredible story in itself, Clayton Oliver, Marcus Bontempelli and Lachie Neale, all incredibly influential players who collect plenty of the ball and win games for their teams. Liam Jones - 1 AFL: The home of Australian rules football on Reddit, including the Australian Football League and all other aspects of the game. Hes never been close to winning one for himself though. He polled 7x3 votes, 2x2 votes and 4x1 votes. Josh Corbett - 1 The man who once kicked 375 goals in a three-year window is undeniably one of the best forwards in footballing history and his career achievements are a testament to that. Zach Tuohy - 4 Kane Lambert - 3 BIG call for the year: After a slow start to the year, Port Adelaide finally rip the band-aid off on Ken Hinkley's tenure come mid-year, but with no succession plan in place. Todd Goldstein - 2 An ineligible player cannot win the Brownlow Medal, regardless of the number of votes he has received. Jade Gresham - 1 Rowan Marshall - 4 [11] The main exception was from 2005 until 2014, when a player would become ineligible if he committed an infringement that the Tribunal's Match Review Panel judged as being worthy of a one-game suspension, before applying adjustments based on a player's good or bad record, or for accepting an early guilty plea meaning that players with a good record or early plea could be ineligible despite avoiding suspension, or a player with a bad record could be eligible despite having been suspended. Christian Petracca - 23 If they've got the same team as last year, with all their old players 1 year older, how will they win a premiership? James polled in eight of the 17 matches of the home-and-away season in which he played (having missed the Round 13 match with Fitzroy at Brunswick Street). He polled 8x3 votes, 2x2 votes and 2x1 votes. AFL Debate Club: How could Gather Round best be improved in coming years? Sam Switkowski - 1, Cameron Guthrie - 18 Nic Naitanui - 5 Shortly after the formation of the Victorian Football League, Brownlow was the administrator on the board serving as Geelongs delegate. under the initial rules until 1930, the umpiring panel would be called to meet and agree upon a winner among the tied players, added to the rules at some stage prior to 1930 (but without removing the previous stipulation causing confusion in the tied. Max King - 3 thats as close as i can recall a team getting.