Let’s have some apathy towards the Nathan Fyfe decision. What is done is done and there are others who should be watched in the final rounds of the season.
Brownlow night could be just as entertaining as the fight for a top eight spot. It would be great if Port Adelaide defeats Gold Coast, West Coast beat Essendon and Adelaide falls to the teasing Tigers.
If the above did happen, that would potentially leave five teams at the end of Round 21 on 40 points and only percentage deciding who sits in eighth spot.
With the emergence of the Eagles in recent weeks, Matthew Priddis’ chances of stealing a Brownlow have also been revived.
Priddis could poll in at least nine games. Many may not see Priddis as a deserving winner but it would be a reward for his consistency and workmanship throughout the year. Priddis is arguably the best clearance and has the most paramount hand passes in the competition.
Priddis is a favourite to win the John Worsfold Medal, if he does win the award he would be going back to back.
Some of Priddis’ outstanding games this season have come against Collingwood, St Kilda, Gold Coast and Carlton. With games against Melbourne and Gold Coast in the run home, Priddis may finish the season off in an exceptional manner especially if he helps lead his team over the line this weekend against Essendon.
Even if Travis Boak’s team has dropped behind the pace in the second half of the season, he still put in some stellar performances. He’s impressed in recent losses such as last weekend against Sydney, Richmond in Round 17 and the last Showdown.
Boak could potentially poll votes in eight games so far this season. For Boak to win the accolade he’ll have to finish the season strongly especially in the last two games. To get attention from the umpires he’ll have to comfortably outplay the likes of Curnow and Crowley.
After starting the season in extraordinary fashion, Josh P. Kennedy has been at short odds to win ‘Charlie’ for majority of the year.
In the first five games he was averaging just under 30 disposals. The money came in for Kennedy as punters knew Sydney’s infamous for having slow starts to seasons and they were not going to be in a form slump for long.
Kennedy is currently averaging 30 possessions a game and has a chance to raise it as Sydney’s run home is St Kilda, Western Bulldogs and Richmond. By the end of the season Kennedy may be polling in at least twelve rounds.
The media should turn its attention from Fyfe to Joel Selwood. Selwood lost by one vote last year. On paper, he has matched his 2013 season, he is averaging approximately the same disposals, kicks, marks and tackles.
Like Kennedy from Sydney, Selwood has a great opportunity to make it impossible for umpires not to notice him as he has games against the Hawks and Brisbane.
If he can be a game changer in the modern day rivalry no doubt he’ll poll. He then finishes the season at home where he can demolish a side which has suffered more than one hundred-point beating in 2014.
It’s strange to think after not seeing the little magician for so many weeks he could be still in contention for the Brownlow Medal. The chances are it’ll be in the next two weeks players start to overtake Gary Ablett Jr in the votes, but that in itself is amazing considering the number of games the son of the gun has missed.
It will be bizarre if the contenders for the Brownlow Medal do have form slumps for the next three weeks and the Gold Coast captain retains the title of the AFL’s best and fairest.
Whoever Ablett does give the medal to on the AFL’s night of nights, it will be a winner who is worthy and has worked hard.
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