Patrick Cripps and Nick Daicos are the biggest roadblocks in Lachie Neale’s path to Brownlow immortality, but the spectre of Isaac Heeney’s controversial suspension hovers over football’s night of nights.
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In 1997, St Kilda champion Robert Harvey won despite polling one fewer than Western Bulldogs star Chris Grant, who had also been rubbed out in contentious circumstances. A gracious Harvey said his win was a “hollow victory” though the floor’s warm response suggested they felt otherwise.needed the full six votes in the final two rounds in 2017 to overrun the suspended Patrick Dangerfield by three.
Cripps has three matches – in round six against Greater Western Sydney , round 16 against Richmond and round 23 against West Coast – where he should be a lock for the three, and is in line to have his name read out in perhaps another dozen matches.in 18 of the 19 games where he recorded 28 or more possessions. This year, he had 15 such performances, leaving him with strong claims to become just the 17th man since the award’s inception 100 years ago to win the Brownlow a second time.
Instrumental in the Lions’ surge up the ladder, Neale is tipped to score votes in eight of 11 games, including maximums in rounds 10, 17, 18 and 20 with two hauls of 36 possessions, 34 and 35.
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