POST LACKS VISIBLE PANTY LINE

The Brownlow. Night of Nights. Who'll take Charlie home? Pantheon of greatness. 

1. Travis Johnston - MVP (Most Visible Pisshead). How did he find time to lick the face of every person at his table as well as smooch Melbourne chairman Paul Gardiner? If there's one person I didn't want to see pie-eyed and playing up, it's Trav.

2. The woman sitting between Steve McBurney and Darren Goldspink. Buxom. Was she ever an extra in The Sopranos or Goodfellas?

3. WC Fields would have been appalled. Channel 10 target fifteen year olds and cretins with Big Brother; ten year olds and cretins with Australian Idol; and now 5 year olds and cretins with Sons of Guns. Worse, though, is how this Brownlow will be remembered. "The year Goodes won his second AND Hirdy's and Vossy's kids stole the show. Awww."

4. Two pairs should be flushed. Christian and Walls or Lane and Hudson? Surely, one pair's enough to explain proceedings. Doubtless Ten were fulfilling contractual obligations.

5. Sandra Sully, the face that launched 1000 search requests. Is she now officially bigger than Channel Ten?

6. Comrade Demetriou. How many dramatic pauses are too many?

7. Goodes grief. Gavin Wanganeen, Simon Black and Jason Akermanis have won Brownlows and the following Saturday's grand final. Malcolm Blight, Peter Moore, John Platten, Paul Couch, Robert Harvey, Shane Woewodin, Nathan Buckley and Ben Cousins have won the Brownlow then LOST the following Saturday's grand final. Are the numbers bad for Goodes?

8. Seven. Next year (or the year after, depending on the toss) Seven will be hosting the Brownlow. Who knows, they may just do it better than Nine or Ten, and they may not. It will be interesting to see whether they try anything new. New? Well, even when Channel Seven do something new, it still seems like a cliché.

See anything I didn't? Sexism is disencouraged.

Comments

[nick]

1.

Peter Helliar - most unfunny man alive. Worse than Daryl Somers.

[Tony.T]

2.

Harsh, Nick. Very, very harsh.

[carneagles]

3.

I was saying elsewhere what a kiss of death that the Brownlow was for the competing side the following Saturday - and that was without including Buckley, who I forgot about for some reason.

And as Gerard Healy proved, it even works across families.

Demetriou might have thrown in some pauses later in the night, but early on he was rabbiting away at 90 words a minute. Maybe the dosage wore off as the night wore on.

[ThirdCat]

4.

Geez, Nick, that's a bit rough.

The sequined 23. You haven't mentioned the sequined 23.

I'm going out to put twenty bucks on Danyle Pearce to win next year.

[Adsy]

5.

I quite liked Helliar actually. When he and Sully walked out for the pre-pre-pre count banter, but after the pre-pre-pre-pre count red carpet, I was on the edge of cringe. But it never came.

Liked the dig about Carlton and the Michael Gardiner valet service.

With all due respect to the Brownlow medallists losing the GF the next Saturday, 90% of those named probably SHOULD have won those games. I know that doesn't mean anything but its not like a lot of them were absolutely blown away...

[Dirk Thruster]

6.

I saw a little bit with Hellier and Sully. Sully is ever so slightly past her peak and Hellier is unbearable at his best. I didn't watch any more.

[Tony.T]

7.

Carna: I can't remember exactly when the Browqnlow switched to Monday of GF week, I think maybe Blight's was the first, but if it was earlier Keith Grieg won in 1974 before losing the GF. Andy sure was fizzing early on, but he was still slipping in the pauses in about round two. And later on he barely bothered with the games involving anyone outside West Coast, Sydney and the Bulldogs. He couldn't get the other games out of the way quick enough.

TC: The sequined 23 was abysmal. What was that girl thinking? Could it somehow be the real reason for the rift between Lleyton and McLeod?

Adsy: I didn't hear Hellier. I'm not a fan, but I'm told he went alright. Melbourne was blown away in 2000. The 60 point margin flattered the Dees, as did Woey's 19 touches flatter him.

Dirk: I pretty much only watched because I was at a function. If I was at home I would have watched something else. Still, it was better than last year when I was in hospital.

[Tony.T]

8.

Marginally better. Mind you, the food was better in hospital.

[Courtney Act]

9.

What about Didak's tranny missus?

[SaggyGreen]

10.

Gavin Wanganeen. Shane Woewodin. AFL has the best names.

[Tony.T]

11.

Court: I did - bizarre. By the way, I wasn't sure if your's was a real jokey type comment or an actual real nasty spam type comment (albeit with wit) so I took out the links.

Saggy: Woewodin always sounded to me like a good name for an SS tank battalion. Pity Woey didn't play like one. Well, maybe he did early in the season, just like the SS tank battalions.

[Yobbo]

12.

Lance Whitnall should shoot himself in the head. That is all.

[Courntey Act]

13.

Hi Tone....Courtney again.
Check out the piccy of moi at: http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n146/courtneyact/CA-Blue-Dress-Web.jpg

Compare it with Didak's lovely lassie, Kassie:
http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5255863,00.jpg

She/he has totally ripped off my look.....not happy Tony.
No need to take out the link this time.
Mwah!

[Russell Allen]

14.

The Brownlow red carpet and ceremony is the only televisual event I play back again and again. It's even better then the Victoria's Secret annual show.

Can I add I was disappointed that Judd's lady covered up after last year.

[Tony.T]

15.

Judd's squeeze looked like a Roman matron. Rebecca in culina laborat.

[sam]

16.

The buxom lass next to Goldsfink you refer to was his 18 year old daughter. I wonder how many pissed footballers asked her to blow their whistle or hold their balls?

[Tony.T]

17.

And would she back-chat like her dad?