The whereabouts of Jobe Watson’s 2012 Brownlow Medal is still a mystery

THE AFL is refusing to say if Jobe Watson has been asked to return his Brownlow Medal and the Bombers stars’ manager also wasn’t forthcoming on the medal’s whereabouts.

THE AFL is refusing to say if Jobe Watson has been asked to return his Brownlow Medal.

Watson was declared ineligible for the game’s highest ­individual honour a month ago, but the whereabouts of the medal remain a mystery.

Essendon said it had no knowledge of the ­arrangement struck between the league and Watson.

Asked where Watson’s medal was, his manager Craig Kelly said: “Dog ate it.”

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AFL officials also declined to say if the Bombers star was allowed to keep the medal or required to return it.

“We’re not going to answer any of those questions today,” a league spokesman said as Trent Cotchin and Sam Mitchell were presented with Brownlow Medals in a special ceremony.

“It doesn’t need to be ­ans­wered today.”

Where is Jobe Watson’s Brownlow Medal. Picture: Michael Klein

Olympic champions found to have used performance-enhancing drugs are asked to return their medals to the International Olympic Committee.

Watson, one of 34 Essendon players found guilty of doping in January, announced on November 10 he had surrendered his Brownlow Medal, just days before the AFL Commission was set to rule on whether he could keep it.

The league declared on ­November 14 that Watson was ineligible and named runners-up Trent Cotchin and Sam Mitchell as the winners.

Cotchin and Mitchell recei­ved Brownlow Medals more than more than 1500 days after Watson pipped them by four votes in the 2012 count.