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Andrew Wu Sports Writer September 23, 2025 — 12.12pm

There are plenty of issues AFL chief Andrew Dillon must tend to after this season, but overhauling the Brownlow Medal should not be in the top three, two, or one on his list of priorities.

The snubbing of St Kilda’s Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera for one of the individual games of the season will be seen as evidence of a broken Brownlow. It shouldn’t be.

Yes, Collingwood supporters and Nick Daicos backers will feel their man was hard done by, beaten by seven votes in a count where Matt Rowell polled heavily for several “meh” sort of games.

Daicos was undoubtedly a hard luck story, but the Brownlow has always thrown up voting anomalies. It is part of the award’s charm, and has not robbed the medal of it

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