2024 Brownlow Medal: Your Questions Answered
2024 Brownlow Medal: Your Questions Answered
A Collingwood superstar has the chance to make history when the Brownlow Medal is awarded to the AFL’s fairest and best player on Monday evening at Melbourne’s Crown Palladium.
Nick Daicos will become the Club’s 10th winner of the coveted award should he poll the most votes in this evening’s count.
Remarkably the Brownlow Medal is not the only award on offer for Daicos and two other Collingwood teammates, with two other Magpies players joining him as Goal and Mark of the Year finalists which will be awarded at Football’s night of nights.
All your questions are answered ahead of what could be a fruitful evening for the Pies.
Could Nick Daicos win the Brownlow?
The 21-year-old has had another season to remember in what was just his third season at the highest level.
Averaging 30.7 disposals (No.4 in the AFL), 7.7 clearances (No.3), 5.5 inside 50s (No.7) and a total of 20 goals, Daicos has already taken home a suite of awards in 2024 including the AFL Coach’s Association’s Champion Player, a spot on the wing in the All-Australian team plus fourth place in the AFL Player’s Association’s Most Valuable Player Award.
Daicos collected 30 or more disposals on 14 occasions and in Rounds 10, 20 and 24 he had over 40.
Arguably his best performance of the year came in Round 24 against the Demons where collected 40 disposals and kicked two goals, while in Round Eight against Carlton he kicked the match winning goa
The 21-year-old finished third in last years Brownlow Medal count with 28 votes, behind winner Lachie Neale (31 votes) and Patrick Cripps (29 votes).
Many pundits have the dynamic midfielder as their pick to take home ‘Charlie’, but it’s the game’s umpires who will decide.
How is the winner crowned?
After every home and away fixture, the officiating umpires vote on who they deem to be the fairest and best player afield in each game in a three (best), two (second best) and one (third best) format. The votes are then locked away and kept secret until they’re read out by AFL CEO Andrew Dillion in tonight’s vote count.
How many times has a Collingwood player won the award?
Collingwood’s most recent winner of the Brownlow Medal was newly crowned Australian Football Hall of Famer Dane Swan in 2011. The fan favourite polled 34 votes in a year that saw the Magpies finish as Runners Up to Premiers Geelong.
In 2003 Nathan Buckley was involved in a three-way tie alongside Adelaide’s Mark Ricciuto and Sydney’s Adam Goodes. This victory came 262 days after the birth of tonight’s favourite Nick Daicos.
