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THE biggest clangers of Brownlow night - How did the umps miss Boyd's 45 touches, Adam Goodes off target and a Saint's unenviable record. 

THE biggest clangers of Brownlow night - How did the umps miss Boyd's 45 touches, Adam Goodes off target and a Saint's unenviable record.

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WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

BULLDOG skipper Matthew Boyd had a lazy 45 touches and 24 contested possessions against Fremantle in Round 5 - racking up 162 SuperCoach points - but could not manage a single vote. Robert Murphy had just 45 SuperCoach points and got two votes that night. Kepler Bradley got the three for 16 disposals and four goals.

CHRIS Judd and Sam Mitchell were surprisingly slow out of the box. Both failed to attract a vote in Round 1 even though Judd lifted Carlton to a come-from-behind win against Richmond and Mitchell picked up 38 touches against the Crows.

STEPHEN Hill may have received the luckiest vote of the year in Round 9, when he had just 10 touches against Port Adelaide. Skipper Matthew Pavlich was ignored after notching 24 disposals and two goals.

IN ROUND 3 Scott Pendlebury polled two votes for 21 disposals and no goals, while Dane Swan missed out after collecting 34 touches. Even the confessed one-eyed website The Collingwood Blog reported that "Pendlebury was being tracked by Bryce Gibbs and didn’t have his regular impact."

PENDLEBURY'S teammate Chris Tarrant somehow pocketed a vote in Round 12 as the Pies demolished Melbourne. Tarrant had 10 disposals - the third-fewest in the team. The umps must really rate his opponent Brad Green. Leon Davis, who didn't get much love last night despite his All-Australian season, missed out despite picking up 27 touches. 

NICK Dal Santo and Tendai Mzungu played on each other in Round 20. Mzungu had 30 touches and a goal, Dal 25 and two goals. Mzungu got one vote, Dal got two. 

STEVE Johnson kicked seven goals and had a record 10 goal assists to score 199 SuperCoach points in the Cats' Round 19 rout of Melbourne, but the umps didn't think it was enough for best-on-ground honours. Joel Selwood got the three for 43 touches at the Cattery.

HANDY ANDY

AFL chief Andrew Demetriou was in fine form, cracking jokes pre-count about his ability to keep a "R.Nahas" vote blitz under control. When the Tiger polled in Round 7, he giggled. He also got a laugh out of saying "T.Mzungu" for the first time, but somehow managed to mispronounce the easiest surname in the game, calling Hawk Isaac Smith "I.Omith".

JUNIOR THINKING

ONE of the big talking points was whether Gary Ablett, who has polled 78 votes in the past three years, would be judged harshly being in so many losing sides at the Suns. Haydn Bunton (23 votes, 1932) and Col Austen (23 votes, 1949) both won Charlies in sides that won just three games. But would Gary? The first test came in Round 3 when he had 34 disposals in a side that lost to the Dogs by 71 points. Zip. But Ablett didn't have to wait too long, picking up three in the Suns' first win in Round 5. He also got three in a 57-point loss to the Crows in Round 8 and three in a 50-point loss to the Dockers in Round 15 to end with 23 - coincidentally, the same score as Bunton and Austen.

AWESOME FOURSOME

THERE are some games that are non-negotiable threes. According to Champion Data rankings, four players had magic games where they scored 190 points or more. Dean Cox scored a season-high 213 points against the Bulldogs in Round 19, Steve Johnson kicked seven and had a record 10 goal assists to score 199 in the Cats' Round 19 rout of Melbourne, Ablett had 41 touches and kicked four goals against Adelaide in the Suns Round 8 loss and Josh Kennedy kicked 10 goals against the Dogs in Round 9. All saluted, except Stevie J who was pipped by Joel Selwood. But Joel did manage a lazy 43 touches that day.

ODDS-ON WINNER

APART from Chris Judd's slow start, the bookies seemed to be on the money early with Pendlebury ($4) and Dane Swan ($7) setting the pace. Marc Murphy ($11), Matthew Boyd ($17), Nick Dal Santo ($26), Cox ($26) and Ablett were not far behind. But the big surprise was $81 shot Matthew Priddis. The West Coast midfielder ended with 19 votes.

RUCKS BACK IN VOGUE

THE introduction of the sub rule meant that ruckmen received greater playing time this year. While West Coast's Dean Cox (18 votes) could not match the efforts of the last two winning dinosaurs Scott Wynd (1992) and Jim Stynes (1991), he did became the first ruckman to score more than 15 votes since Matthew Allan polled 20 votes in 1999.

JUDDY'S LATEST RECORD

CHRIS Judd may not have won, but he is now the fourth-highest vote-getter of all time. However, there was one round before last night where he had never received a vote - Round 18. He overcame that hurdle with three against Essendon.

BLAKE'S DONUT

THIS year was probably Jason Blake's last chance to avoid being the subject of trivia nights for many years to come. The St Kilda defender has played more games, 199 in fact, than any other player without polling a vote. His best chance of ending the sequence was in Round 20 when he had 27 disposals and 10 marks v Fremantle. The outcome: Nothing.

WINNER TAKES IT ALL

ADAM Goodes was enjoying his game against Essendon in Round 20, until the final kick. The Swans leader had 29 touches and kicked three goals, but found himself 50m out as the siren sounded with the game on the line. His miss left the Swans one point from victory and the umps gave the three to Jobe Watson instead.

UMPS AVOID STANTON

JAMES Hird has slammed Essendon supporters who jeered Brent Stanton early in the season. "My message to them is get over it and support him, or don't be a supporter, because he's a player we need for us to be successful and he's been very good for us for a long time,'' Hird said. "If you hark back to the Carlton game, we wouldn't have got a draw without his last quarter. It was absolutely sensational, while being tagged.'' And what did the umps think of Round 4 v the Blues? They were keener on Dustin Fletcher. In fact, Stanton had to wait until Round 16 to poll. Perhaps it was the umps booing.

AA'S ANONYMOUS

YOU would think winning All-Australian selection would mean you had been noticed. Try telling that to West Coast skipper Darren Glass, who went voteless. Ben Reid did marginally better with one vote. Geelong's Corey Enright got a cheer when he polled his first votes in Round 14. His three votes lifted the four-time All-Australian's career tally to 13 votes.

CAPTAIN'S CURSE

MOST skippers are under the umpires' eyes from the word go and that usually translates into votes - read Chris Judd. But not always. Cameron Ling, Domenic Cassisi, Nick Maxwell and Glass went voteless last night, Brad Green and Chris Newman polled one and Nick Riewoldt just four.

BARRY'S LAST HURRAH

BIG bad bustling Barry Hall has not exactly been an umpy's favourite over the years, but would have hoped for a bit of sentiment when he hit form in his last few games. But none was forthcoming. He didn't poll a single vote in his final season.