I remember a day at Moorabin in their swamp when he got caught holding the ball.
It was significant 'cause it never ever happened before.
Was the beginning of the end as far as I'm concerned and let me know the champ must be slowing down.

Edited December 19, 20213 yr by Fork 'em

On 10/11/2021 at 9:23 PM, Cassiew said:

Brownlow is one thing. But we as a club only gave him one best and fairest. Look at the players who won over Flower, Steven Smith, Steven Icke, 

On 10/11/2021 at 9:05 PM, Sir Why You Little said:

Well aware of all the greatness of R Flower

For some reason The Umpires never voted him high enough 

We will never know. 
But one of the main reasons i take little notice of The Brownlow. 
I mean let’s be honest, KB was another who was crucified on Brownlow night

Interesting virtually every player in the GOAT conversation other than Ablett Jr didn’t win a Brownlow. 

As for not winning more B&F’s he explained that he missed games nearly every season and once you missed a couple of games it was very hard to win one. 

1 hour ago, Ollie fan said:

 

as for the comparisons with some of our present greats – almost impossible, and I say that as a huge fan of  Oliver. Do we really have to choose between them?

When we drafted Oliver 6 seasons ago if anybody said we would ever be discussing him in the same sentence as Flower I would have told them where to go.

Now I think it's warranted.

40 minutes ago, Its Time for Back to Back said:

Interesting virtually every player in the GOAT conversation other than Ablett Jr didn’t win a Brownlow. 

As for not winning more B&F’s he explained that he missed games nearly every season and once you missed a couple of games it was very hard to win one. 

I remember one year he blasted out in front of the Brownlow count but missed about 6games late in the season.
And that was that.

We were pretty bad in the years he played but you always knew he would be picked for Victoria

Ant highlight reel of players would have to include Liam Jurrah for mine.

He was a prince.

I'd just go to watch him play, win the ball, and the rest was magic; and we would look at each other with just being able to keep that bit of still time to ourselves..