Fascinating that Brownlow-gate is trending…. Meanwhile AFL reporters aren’t touching it. Clearly a directive from the league, to not give this oxygen.
Tom Browne…. Crickets
Gerrard Whately…… crickets
Mark Stevens…… crickets
Sam Edmund…… crickets
Tom Morris…… crickets
Barrett ……… crickets
Theres been nothing but crickets from Tom Morris for awhile now lol.
who gives a fk what any of them have to say
6 blowhards with nothing to say eh? I remember Purple having a faux fit about a player taking ten seconds to tie a shoelace. ■■■■■.
OMG edit I accidentally misspelt that and it might just look like it was intentional. I’ll save it for when I accidentally spell Qantas with a C.
I doubt a junior umpire will convince the two other umpires on the allocation of votes.
They’ve named the guy too. They love a good lynching
Now if those partners of indigenous HFC players would be kind enough to share their medical records…
Isn’t Whately on holiday?
If it’s an AFL directive not to give it oxygen why is it the first story when I open the app?
I see this is a silver lining.
Barrett talks about it on his podcast today too.
Mark Stevens is the AFL editor on 927 and they ran with it on their breakfast program.
Sure they can “run with it”. It’s a news story and they would be rightly questioned if they did not bring it up.
But do they chase as it as ferociously as they did when they were lynching EFC during the Saga years? Are they camping out on Pell’s lawn? If not, it is not due to some recently discovered morality or journalistic ethics; it’s because they know what side their bread is buttered.
Dan Richardson Head of AFL Umpiring.
Andrew Dillon Head of AFL Integrity.
Of course there is an image of Ray 
He is a symptom of everything thats wrong with the AFL umps department.
Also, P1 of the HS and a 2-page spread inside. Not exactly being ignored.
If this was a footballer scandalised with match fixing, you can bet they would be hiding in bins out the front of houses…. And looking for inside interviews with family members.
It sounds like most for this news, is coming from non-football media, who don’t have the worry of having their AFL media accreditation cancelled.
The gossip, rumours and innuendo which these slimy pieces of sh*t like Barrett, constantly engage the lowest common denominator……… have decided to take the ‘high road’, simply because it’s about AFL integrity.
The fact that none of these clowns even tweeted about this news yesterday, is telling.
Clubs to provide umpires for 2023 season so the cheating can be fair.
Its interesting, in recent times there has been a bit of chatter within the media that the MVP award is of more merit and value than the Brownlow due to the fact the MVP is judged by ones peers.
Makes you wonder if this scandal almost speeds up the irrelevancy of the brownlow medal as an award in general.
It’s ironic that the players want an MVP award.
“most valuable” is an American award where franchises are owned by billionaires, so “most valuable” means conferring most monetary advantage to one of those billionaires. (It’s also ironic that African-Americans are over-represented in some sports so are valuable to their modern “owners”).
I know value can have different meanings but AFLPA should have come up with a term that doesn’t treat them like chattels.
I was referring to the Leigh Matthews trophy, I may be wrong, but isnt that essentially the MVP award?
yep
winners