Kane and Kingy's TOUGH assessment of those underperforming around the comp - SEN 

Harrison "Two Touch" Petty is just woeful and needs to go for Melbourne. How on Earth could firstly, Adelaide offer two first rounders for him, and secondly, how on Earth did Melbourne turn that down? He is lucky to be a single thrird rounder now, and looks like a guy that has checked out anyway. Amazing how well the forward line looks without him anywhere near the team.

As a tiges fan who loves Baker, Bolton and Rioli, Kingy actually swayed me a bit with the hypothetical glut of picks that would come in. Bolton himself is still quite young though so I don’t love the idea of trading him

Brownlow - if you get a week and only one week over the year, you are still eligible. The fact that the player misses a week removes the potential for them to accumulate more votes so that is enough!

Melbourne fans feel exactly the same way. Verrall and Fullarton deserve a spot wayyyyy more than Petty. We'll happily offload Petty, Schache and Billings for a packet of chips. Won't be surprised if Tomlinson and Fullarton leave, guys deserve better

Echoing what someone else said in the comments when I say, footy isn't what it used to be and it may be a silly and obvious statement but we have so many rule changes year over year and even mid year too. AFL needs to come out with the rules pre season, set them and stick to them for the rest of the year, have a review at the off season of what worked and what didn't work well and look at what you can improve. The players look lost half the time when the whistle blows they don't know which way its going and who did what wrong.

If Heeney polls the most votes, I would love the Brownlow winner to refuse to accept the award. That would cause a ripple that might lead to change.

One of the funniest Fridays I’ve watched. Good stuff lads

West Coast haven't even started their rebuild yet. Hell they just went and signed Yeo for 3 years. That's doing the opposite. One of the only players with currency.

The Brownlow does affect the coaches. Imagine the mindset of a player when he comes back from a suspension knowing they can still win vs knowing they’re out of the run. Knowing they can still win but missing a game probably means they come back in hungrier.

Cornes is on the money with Beveridges time spent at the Doggies

How bout allow the player to be eligible for the Brownlow, but they are penalised -1 vote for each week they're suspended?

If Charlie Curnow is under-performing what does that say about all the other goal kickers trailing him in the Coleman Medal race. Did you mention any Collingwood players?

Footy is chamging so much, its still good, but its getting to the point where its just getting a bit soft off the ball, on the ball stuff is fine, but let them go, a little bit, its a physical, emotional game

Sorry Kingy I’m very confident Plugger got 4 weeks for swinging is arm back and catching Guy McKenna so to say in the past this wouldn’t have earned a suspension is incorrect.

Is gaining separation from a player due another player holding while not in play? Which is pretty much holding the man? Just saying, throughout the whole game there is wrapping around players trying to retard them pretty sure that's same and also a contributor to why the player is trying to get separation?? The afl can make changes on the fly when they want but not when the game needs it?

Mr King is a smart man.

The threshold for suspension is so much lower than it used to be, players get a week for such minor accidents these days. The eligibility for awards needs to move with the times and allow for that reality.

Can someone tell me why WB coach Bevo keeps dropping skilled players, and placing rookies in key positions, against seasoned opponents? And why does he have so many players wander off their opponents when they have control of the ball? Crazy. Bevo seems to be doing his best to sink his team to the bottom.

About 60% of the listed players, and plenty of coaches about 80%

An interesting discussion is, if a player becomes ineligible for a brownlow say in the middle of the year. And umpires know it, why are they giving votes to the player. It makes no sense as an award that umpires give votes to ineligible players.

Rioli for 2 first rounders and Baker and Bolton for 4 first rounders??? Spell please. good players but massive overpays. Bolton for 2 first rounders I could kind of understand

Bolton only. Baker can fly to his beloved WCE.

Looking forward to kingys misnaming bloopers real

IF you are going to consider the Brownlow in deciding the guilt of a player, then remove the "fairest" from the award. Otherwise stfu about it and leave it alone.

Nice idea that cornes

If he wasn't in contention for the Brownlow or it was just any run of the mill player, this wouldn't even be a discussion. The fact that he is theoretically polling well for an award should have zero bearing on his guilt or innocence. The AFL told everyone that this action would be graded intentional before the season started, so they all knew. Plus the AFL has about zero consistency so why would you do an action that takes your destiny out of your hands and puts it into those of the tribunal? I'm sure he didn't mean to do it, but in the end he smashed a guy in the face with a clenched fist.....much the same as those players who chose to hip and shoulder but just get it wrong and make contact with the head.

How long before Clarkson, Thompson and Hardwick won first of multiple premierships? >5 years!

Coaches win premierships in their first 5 yrs? Kevin Sheedy?

Kane bringing up a coach is ironic. Especially when he’s not looking around the Port Adelaide region.

Kane wants Beveridge sacked, but not Hinkley. LOL

It was always thus with suspensions and the Brownlow. Standards change and what got you rubbed out in 95 didn’t get you rubbed out in 82 - that’s life. There’s literally no difference to what’s happening today. Why change the rules now? We gonna give mckernan and grant their brownlows?

Kigy the hawks hater is back

Why don’t they have a point system where the threshold is say 1000 points and this would keep Heney in the mix for a Brownlow … Fines are not good … don’t take food off the table of the players who give up so much to make it. Once you have reached ex amount of points then fine ….

I think that the point that Everyone misses every time someone is knocked out of Brownlow contention and everyone starts wingeing, is that it’s the best and FAIREST award. Doing something against the rules, to such a degree that they are given a suspension, means that they were not fair enough to win the Brownlow medal. That is the way it has been, that is the way it is. Until someone changes that, we should all settle down and get on with seeing which team wins the flag.

Brownlow has become irrelevant now anyway. It’s just the award for the midfielder who gets the most touches.

Am I deaf

If the umpires had done their job & stopped that clown from scragging Isaac all game He would not have had to belt him to get him off him. The umpires should be suspended not Isaac.

biggest thieves in AFL today Andrew Dillon and Laura Kane mega pay packet for dribbling nonsense in their self satisfied smug way

hang on a minute this is just all fuckin meaningless nonsense

No one cares about Brownlow, just have another medal for Best on ground with no rules.

Biggest Thief - Jared Polec

Yep, Kane spot on with the threshold. Should’ve been done like that years ago. Backwards competition that is honestly dying out in the next 10 years IMO. Other sports taking over massively like basketball and soccer in aus.

Brownlow,meaningless award

Lol why does it say @khabibtheeagle