2023 Gavin Brown Medal count

[David]

Round 21 vs Hawthorn
5. Scott Pendlebury
4. Jack Crisp
3. Jamie Elliott
2. Beau McCreery
1. Jeremy Howe

And that's that – with neither Josh nor JDG polling any votes and only six matches left, Nick Daicos has won.

Still plenty of votes to come, of course! The race for 2nd will be interesting, as will finding out who was our best player of the finals series.

Leaderboard
Nick Daicos 60
Josh Daicos 27
Jordan De Goey 26
Darcy Moore 20
Tom Mitchell 18
Scott Pendlebury 18
Brody Mihocek 15
Jamie Elliott 14
Isaac Quaynor 14
Steele Sidebottom 13
Nathan Murphy 12
Taylor Adams 10
Jack Crisp 10
Darcy Cameron 9
John Noble 7
Billy Frampton 6
Jeremy Howe 6
Brayden Maynard 6
Mason Cox 5
Beau McCreery 2
Dan McStay 2

[David]

[David]

Round 22 vs Geelong
5. Josh Daicos
4. Nathan Murphy
3. Brody Mihocek
2. Patrick Lipinski
1. Isaac Quaynor

We really spread the votes around for this one – 17 individual players received at least one vote in the thread, which must be some kind of record!

Josh making a strong push for 2nd place.

Leaderboard
Nick Daicos 60
Josh Daicos 32
Jordan De Goey 26
Darcy Moore 20
Brody Mihocek 18
Tom Mitchell 18
Scott Pendlebury 18
Nathan Murphy 16
Isaac Quaynor 15
Jamie Elliott 14
Steele Sidebottom 13
Taylor Adams 10
Jack Crisp 10
Darcy Cameron 9
John Noble 7
Billy Frampton 6
Jeremy Howe 6
Brayden Maynard 6
Mason Cox 5
Patrick Lipinski 2
Beau McCreery 2
Dan McStay 2

[David]

Last loss of the year coming up:

Round 23 vs Brisbane
5. Scott Pendlebury
4. Jack Crisp
3. Josh Daicos
2. Mason Cox
1. Brayden Maynard

Leaderboard
Nick Daicos 60
Josh Daicos 35
Jordan De Goey 26
Scott Pendlebury 23
Darcy Moore 20
Brody Mihocek 18
Tom Mitchell 18
Nathan Murphy 16
Isaac Quaynor 15
Jack Crisp 14
Jamie Elliott 14
Steele Sidebottom 13
Taylor Adams 10
Darcy Cameron 9
Mason Cox 7
Brayden Maynard 7
John Noble 7
Billy Frampton 6
Jeremy Howe 6
Patrick Lipinski 2
Beau McCreery 2
Dan McStay 2

[David]

Round 24 vs Essendon
5. Jordan De Goey
4. Tom Mitchell
3. Jack Ginnivan
2. Isaac Quaynor
1. Will Hoskin-Elliott

Both Ginni and WHE poll for the first time this year! In Hoskin-Elliott’s case, it’s his first vote polled since Round 15 last year, which breaks a streak of thirty matches without a Gavin Brown Medal vote. I wonder if that’s a record…

(Edit: not even close, it turns out – Beau McCreery’s two votes against Hawthorn in Round 21 were the first time he’d polled since Round 10, 2021! That’s 46 matches straight without a GB Medal vote.)

Leaderboard
Nick Daicos 60
Josh Daicos 35
Jordan De Goey 31
Scott Pendlebury 23
Tom Mitchell 22
Darcy Moore 20
Brody Mihocek 18
Isaac Quaynor 17
Nathan Murphy 16
Jack Crisp 14
Jamie Elliott 14
Steele Sidebottom 13
Taylor Adams 10
Darcy Cameron 9
Mason Cox 7
Brayden Maynard 7
John Noble 7
Billy Frampton 6
Jeremy Howe 6
Jack Ginnivan 3
Patrick Lipinski 2
Beau McCreery 2
Dan McStay 2
Will Hoskin-Elliott 1

[David]

Qualifying Final vs Melbourne
5. Steele Sidebottom
4. Bobby Hill
3. Jack Crisp
2. Isaac Quaynor
1. Will Hoskin-Elliott

Leaderboard
Nick Daicos 60
Josh Daicos 35
Jordan De Goey 31
Scott Pendlebury 23
Tom Mitchell 22
Darcy Moore 20
Isaac Quaynor 19
Brody Mihocek 18
Steele Sidebottom 18
Jack Crisp 17
Nathan Murphy 16
Jamie Elliott 14
Taylor Adams 10
Darcy Cameron 9
Mason Cox 7
Brayden Maynard 7
John Noble 7
Billy Frampton 6
Jeremy Howe 6
Bobby Hill 4
Jack Ginnivan 3
Will Hoskin-Elliott 2
Patrick Lipinski 2
Beau McCreery 2
Dan McStay 2

[David]

Preliminary Final vs Greater Western Sydney
5. Jordan De Goey
4. Jack Crisp
3. Steele Sidebottom
2. Isaac Quaynor
1. Scott Pendlebury

Leaderboard
Nick Daicos 60
Jordan De Goey 36
Josh Daicos 35
Scott Pendlebury 24
Tom Mitchell 22
Jack Crisp 21
Isaac Quaynor 21
Steele Sidebottom 21
Darcy Moore 20
Brody Mihocek 18
Nathan Murphy 16
Jamie Elliott 14
Taylor Adams 10
Darcy Cameron 9
Mason Cox 7
Brayden Maynard 7
John Noble 7
Billy Frampton 6
Jeremy Howe 6
Bobby Hill 4
Jack Ginnivan 3
Will Hoskin-Elliott 2
Patrick Lipinski 2
Beau McCreery 2
Dan McStay 2

[David]

Grand Final vs Brisbane
5. Bobby Hill
4. Jack Crisp
3. Scott Pendlebury
2. Tom Mitchell
1. Nick Daicos

Final leaderboard
Nick Daicos 61
Jordan De Goey 36
Josh Daicos 35
Scott Pendlebury 27
Jack Crisp 25
Tom Mitchell 24
Isaac Quaynor 21
Steele Sidebottom 21
Darcy Moore 20
Brody Mihocek 18
Nathan Murphy 16
Jamie Elliott 14
Taylor Adams 10
Darcy Cameron 9
Bobby Hill 9
Mason Cox 7
Brayden Maynard 7
John Noble 7
Billy Frampton 6
Jeremy Howe 6
Jack Ginnivan 3
Will Hoskin-Elliott 2
Patrick Lipinski 2
Beau McCreery 2
Dan McStay 2

Congratulations to Nick Daicos, winner of his first Gavin Brown Medal! Despite only polling a single vote after Round 18, he's polled the equal third-highest vote tally in the history of the award (behind Brodie Grundy with 78 in 2018, Dayne Beams with 64 in 2012 and tying with Jack Crisp with 61 in 2021). At just 20 years of age, he also becomes the youngest ever winner of the award (behind Beams and Dane Swan, who were each 22 in 2012 and 2006 respectively).

Jordan De Goey caps off an impressive season with his second second-place finish and highest ever vote tally, only just scraping past Josh Daicos thanks to a dominant preliminary final performance. For Josh's part, this is his second third-place finish in a row.

The ever-reliable Scott Pendlebury finishes fourth. He hasn't finished lower than fourth in the Gavin Brown Medal since all the way back in 2008 – so that makes fifteen straight top four finishes for him now.

And rounding out the top five is two-time defending champ Jack Crisp, who overcame a slow start to poll a lot of votes in the second half of the season. Nearly half of those came in the finals series; and, with 11 votes across those three matches, that also makes him our best player of the finals series, edging out Bobby Hill (9 – his only votes for the year, remarkably!) and Steele Sidebottom (8).

Possibly for the first time in the award's history, we don't have a best first year player award as no debutants got any votes. But if we're to count players who've been traded in from elsewhere, then congrats to Tom Mitchell for wrapping up a terrific first year in black and white, finishing sixth with 24, while Hill (9), Billy Frampton (7) and Dan McStay (2) also picked up votes.

And that leads us to this year's Donut King award, an ignominious honour that brings far more shame on us than them: the medal for the player who played the most matches without scoring a single vote. That, I regret to say, is Oleg Markov, who played 23 matches for a grand total of 0 votes (my own best efforts notwithstanding – I think I gave him votes most weeks, but it never quite caught on! ) Honourable mention to Ash Johnson, for fifteen matches and at least one exceptional mark without anything to show for it.

Thanks to everyone who voted this year, and who has more generally made this forum such a great place to be on. I couldn't think of a nicer bunch to share the joy of this premiership with. Love youse all!

[think better]

Great job David!

I'm always interested to see how our votes compare with the Copeland.

[23 YIPPEE!!!]

great work in compileing the votes and getting it done.

Amazing job and well done.

Keep it up

[Pies4shaw]

[David]

The one who I really hope will lift next finals series – presuming we make it next year – is Josh Daicos, who's conspicuously absent from the above list as the only player who finished in the top 8 who didn't get a vote across any finals this season. He's now played eight finals for only three votes (1 in the Elimination Final vs West Coast in 2020 and 2 in last year's qualifying final against Geelong); by way of contrast, across the same eight finals, Crisp has racked up 24 votes.

[The Black and White Lion]

Magnificent count well done David and all those who voted. Just wants to call out the strong performance from Isaac Quaynor this year. Thought IQ has had a great year and the GB votes indicate he was our best general defender. Outstanding effort!

[Donny]

Excellent work, David.

[PyreneesPie]

Superb effort David. Thank you.

It will be interesting to see how closely the Copeland voting corresponds with the Gavin Brown medal.