Peter Blucher | Grand Final Week - Footy Nerd Central (23.09.26)
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What is the new “David Parker Medal” and why is it being proposed?
Our last sitting of the Nerdy Stats Society this year with Peter Blucher, who did brilliantly to lay the landscape for the Nick Dacos Brownlow Medal. Hello, Pete. Have I adjourned? You want policy statements for the future of our Nerdy Stat Society today?
Well listen, mate Nerd Society, I got I got three lots of fan mail last week, so we've become a long way. Um I just re I'm sick of writing Coaches Association Player of the Year Award all the time. So I think we need a name and I want to call that the David Parker Medal. So I know you'll like that, but I reckon great coach, great player, he's in. Um they're talking about reducing game time. Us nerds we can't have that 'cause we get off on high possession counts and high goal counts, they're gonna go away, so attack that. And I'm very curious about the Gary Eastern medal. They say they're finals, but why didn't they vote award votes in the first week of the final?
Yes. The coaches had their say there. They didn't want to skew things by having a certain group of players play an extra final. It the Gary Air's medal is so intriguingly poised, Blooch. Well,
anyone in the game can win it. Anyone playing. Because the Astrov leads with a fourteen, their maximum is fifteen. So um so uh
How does the Gary Ayres Medal work and could a player win it in the Grand Final?
So anyone can win it. But uh Ashrow's fourteen, Jackson thirteen, young twelve, so wrong eleven, Bailey ten, Bolton nine had a head start.
So if nobody who's polled gets a vote in the grand final The best on ground would get fifteen and go straight to the middle.
Yep, it could happen. Unlikely probably, but but it could happen. What do you think?
Give us your wrap-up from the brown low.
Well, we talked I mean Day Cos is just extraordinary, but there were a few things that were the records we that were talked about. Forty seven votes he beat Patrick Clipps. Um make it of forty five, eleven votes is the biggest winning margin all time. Eighteen g eighteen games poll equaled his own record in twenty four. Raoul and Cripps had seventeen in their in their winning years. Thirteen votes times three uh beats Cripps' record of twelve. Dustin Martin had eleven in seventeen. Six three voters in a row is a record. Votes per game now is stupidly astronomically out of rageous four one point four two. He's getting on to double the next best. Um, first player poll thirty boats in three seasons as from Flag.
He's jumped from one hundred and fifty sixth to thirty third on the all time list. Which is ridiculous. Um and he's now thirty third in the all time vote count, one hundred and fifty six. He's gone from one hundred and four for that. And he's only twenty twelfth. It's just ridiculous.
What record‑breaking Brownlow vote totals were set this season?
So uh twenty eight sorry, thirty eight three butters. He's already fifteenth for that. It i i we're gonna be rewriting the record books by the time we finish 'cause he's twenty. It's ridiculous.
You've got a double page spread in the souvenir edition of the AFL record for the grand final, so there is no stopping you. Hey, give us old old guys as premiership players and where Dane Zorko can create yet more history here.
Well th this is an interesting one, 'cause Dane Zorco, if Brisbane wins, will become the second oldest um gr uh uh premiership player ever. Um Michael Tuck is at that record at the moment. Zorg guy's already on the list uh uh twice. Uh he's third from last year and he's and ninth from the year before uh from from the year before. So he he's gonna figure pretty prominently but He will if he wins, he'll go past Jim Flynn from Carton. who in nineteen oh eight uh played uh in a premiership um with Carlton. He's a he's just a fascinating old story, uh a great place in history and I've just got to find me notes 'cause they're all over the place here. Where's Flynn? It was a Ruckman from V Anala. He he played one game with Commonwood in the VFA in eighteen ninety six.
Went to went to Geelong and was no good. But then he got to Carlton he played in one, two, three, four, five grand finals, a couple of captain. Um he uh he ran a local pub at St James, which is down near Benilla, retired three or four or five times, came back a couple of times, played in the grand final as captain when the captain was suspended after he hadn't played for two years.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the new “David Parker Medal” and why is it being proposed?
0:00–1:10
2
How does the Gary Ayres Medal work and could a player win it in the Grand Final?
1:10–2:26
3
What record‑breaking Brownlow vote totals were set this season?
2:26–4:18
4
Which veteran players could become the oldest premiership winners?
4:18–6:14
5
What is the historic story of Jim Flynn and his 1908 Carlton premiership?
6:14–7:21
6
How did the 1910 suspension saga affect Grand Final eligibility?
7:21–7:53
7
Who are the top ten oldest premiership players and does Mason Cox make the list?
7:53–8:00
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