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Cripps snatches Brownlow in whirlwind finish - CtrlF.XYZ

Cripps snatches Brownlow in whirlwind finish

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Carlton skipper Patrick Cripps clinched the 2022 Brownlow Medal successful an exhilarating number connected Sunday night, polling 3 votes successful the last circular to bargain the pb and assertion his maiden 'Charlie'.

Cripps registered 29 votes to borderline 2020 victor Lachie Neale (28), Gold Coast limb Touk Miller (27), Fremantle youngster Andrew Brayshaw (25) and Melbourne pugnacious seed Clayton Oliver (25).

Neale led the number for the bulk of the night and headed into circular 23 starring with Miller connected 26 votes, but the Brisbane ace drew lone 1 much vote, the Gold Coast prima failed to canvass and Cripps hauled successful three.

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Carlton hearts were shattered arsenic the Magpies edged the Blues by 1 constituent successful circular 23 to destruct their finals dream, but Cripps registered 35 touches (27 contested), 12 clearances and 8 wrong 50s successful a monstrous extremity to the season.

Cripps sat successful 3rd connected the cusp of the last round, down Neale and Miller, earlier his maximum decorativeness installed him arsenic Carlton's sixth Brownlow Medallist successful history.

The weapon on-baller from Perth joined Bert Deacon (1947), John James (1961), Gordon Collis (1964), Greg Williams (1994) and Chris Judd (2010) arsenic a Carlton Brownlow Medallist.

"I don't cognize whether to laughter oregon cry," Cripps said connected the signifier astatine Melbourne's Crown Palladium.

"I loved footy increasing up arsenic a kid, and I inactive retrieve being astatine boarding schoolhouse backmost successful WA, and I utilized to ever inquire my mum, 'Make definite you motion maine out, springiness maine permission connected Brownlow night', due to the fact that I utilized to emotion watching it.

"My older member Daniel utilized to motion maine retired and we ever utilized to ticker it together.

"I can't enactment it into words astatine the moment, but it's a monolithic honour and I'm perfectly pumped.

"My parents, my brothers — they mean everything to me, but astir importantly my fiancée Mon. They're each the backbone of what I do, and you can't play high-level athletics without a bully backbone."

Cripps had a rocketing commencement to the count, drafting 3 votes successful 5 of the archetypal 8 rounds to pb with 16 votes.

The 27-year-old went adjacent to being ineligible for the Brownlow Medal erstwhile helium was suspended for 2 matches for a precocious bump connected Brisbane's Callum Ah Chee successful circular 21, lone to person his prohibition overturned successful a marathon tribunal hearing.

He averaged 28 disposals, 15 contested possessions and 5 clearances per lucifer successful 2022, and kicked a career-high 20 goals, en way to securing his 3rd All-Australian blazer.

Carlton manager Michael Voss, who shared the 1996 Brownlow Medal honours with Essendon fable James Hird, had towering words for Cripps.

"Patrick embodies each the values we look for successful a person and I talk connected behalf of the full nine successful congratulating our skipper connected this honour," Voss said.

"He is the eventual squad subordinate and leads not conscionable the midfield but the full squad with unthinkable passionateness and is determined to execute squad success.

"He stepped up arsenic standalone skipper this play and has been astatine the forefront of instilling change, driving precocious standards and embracing a caller situation astatine the club."

Brownlow Medal number apical 10

Patrick Cripps (Carlton) 29

Lachie Neale (Brisbane) 28

Touk Miller (Gold Coast) 27

Andrew Brayshaw (Fremantle) 25

Clayton Oliver (Melbourne) 25

Christian Petracca (Melbourne) 24

Callum Mills (Sydney) 21

Dion Prestia (Richmond) 19

Jeremy Cameron (Geelong) 19

Zach Merrett (Essendon) 17

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