New AFL football boss Greg Swann is open to umpires having access to statistics for their Brownlow Medal votes , saying it will probably happen next season.

As always, Monday night’s count generated plenty of debate about voting, especially St Kilda young gun Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera not being best afield for his match-winning heroics against Melbourne.

The umpires currently do not look at player stats before casting their votes.

“I don’t think there’s any issue around that. So we might look to do that next year - we (can) get a mechanism where that can happen,” Swann said.

Swann also backed the integrity of the Brownlow voting system.

“It would be easier to get into Fort Knox than corrupt the Brownlow votes,” he said.

Veteran field umpire Simon Meredith, who will be in charge of

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