deisel - was it against Melbourne that he had 40 possessions and didn;t get the three votes?

What @#$%&! year was it?


kiss to the quickest.

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

93

ta

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

93 when Wankerneen pipped him for the medal

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SMFC 1959 : ONE LIFE, ONE LOVE, ONE CLUB

http://www.blueseum.org/cfc/tiki-index. ... g+Williams

http://www.blueseum.org/cfc/tiki-index. ... 10%2C+1993

When are some fans going to start to use the reference website established for these very purposes?

ps DB - include a reference to the Blueseum site in your article, please.

Russo

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"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies." - Gene Hill

I'm pretty sure it was 44 possessions I'd check that out for sure.

wasn't it against the Eagles at Subi?

sorry Molsey, laziness is a terrible thing! and i will.

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

I used to be lazy, but now I can't be bothered being like that.

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NOW YOU'RE JUST SOME CLUB THAT I USED TO KNOW.

I still refer to Greg Williams as a "Moral Triple Brownlow Medallist" because of this travesty of justice

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

"Diesel is innocent"..............

i've still got the sticker.................!


kindest regards tommi

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that'siti'mnotchangingthistagain......!

While the cream of the crop usually pick up the award, it SHOULD NOT BE the umpires' job to worry about who was best on ground.

The Brownlow voting process is a joke and the award is overrated.

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THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

Rd10 1993

18 kicks, 26 handballs and a goal.

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"We used to sit around and talk about how bad the game plan was." Anthony Koutoufides

He would of had a sore hand from that many handballs!

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They coud'nt.....could they?

I actually recall there was even a song written about it....the chorus went "44 possessions number 2 doesn't gaurantee you fame.....44 possession DIESEL you really have to lift your game"

I think it was by the musicmen or someone like that....

McLeod was robbed of the 2001 brownlow too. He destroyed the Kangaroos here one night late in the season gathering 35 possessions and 3 goals, his game was even greater than diesel's infamous one IMO but he got no votes either.
Don't think any umps were getting even with him as he's pretty quiet, I think they were protecting their bets.

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"We used to sit around and talk about how bad the game plan was." Anthony Koutoufides

Maybe the umps backpedalled on the 93 stuff up by helping him out a bit more in 94. Peter Matera got 27 votes & missed out by 3. That would've won in any other year

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From little things, big things grow - Paul Kelly (The singer, not the Swan)

Why complain molsey, give you an opportunity to plug the site often...

It's a part of folklore now that the umps simply didn't want Williams to win it, and that during that particular game when giving the votes the reaction was more or less "F*^% him!" because he was mouthing off at them all day.

Wanganeen on the other hand had won little to no other player-of-the-year awards from anyone else (Diesel won most of them, Jackovich won a couple if I remember correctly), but ran away with the umpire's choice. There was no doubt the umpires loved Wanganeen. How many frees to you think he got from arching his back and diving into the turf? Even today I have no doubt that the 93 brownlow count was pre-planned by the umps because they wanted Diesel to lose in the most painful way possible.

Losing the GF was one thing, but it was after the brownlow of 93 that I truly hated those f%^#ers from Windy Hill (and umpires too) and have done so ever since. It began what I can only describe as a single-minded attack on us from everyone for that whole week (who can forget the ad where the old man purposely destroys a record playing "We are the navy blues"?). It seemed the whole world wanted us to lose.

An absolute disgrace that robbed one of the game's greats of a rare standing in the game alongside Skilton, Bunton, Reynolds and Stewart.