The AFL’s biggest and brightest stars got together (in small, socially-distanced groups across five different states) for the AFL’s night of nights on Sunday.
The 2020 Brownlow Medal was another unique event in a very different year with the year’s least surprising result the runaway victory by Lion Lachie Neale.
Neale cruised to the game's highest individual accolade ahead of Port Adelaide's Travis Boak, Melbourne's Christian Petracca and St Kilda's Jack Steele.
In a record-breaking count, Neale polled 31 votes from 17 games to finish comfortably clear of Boak (21 votes) in second and Petracca and Steele (20 votes each) in joint-third.
For the GIANTS, enigmatic superstar Toby Greene was the big winner, polling a club-high 12 votes.
Greene doesn't do things by halves, polling all 12 of his votes in best-on-ground performances, spread consistently throughout the season.
Classy teammate Josh Kelly also featured in the votes on four occasions to finish with eight.
From there, five players received four votes, two players received three votes, Brent Daniels scored the first votes of his career with two while three players received a vote each.
Along with Greene's four best-afield performances, Kelly was judged best on ground against the Eagles, Haynes in round five against the Hawks, Hopper in round nine against the Suns, Tim Taranto in round 10 against the Bombers and Cameron in round 14 against Fremantle.
Greene was the big Brownlow Medal winner on Sunday night but how will he poll in the Kevin Sheedy Medal? The GIANTS’ club champion event will be held on Tuesday, October 27 and will be live streamed at giants.afl.
2020 Brownlow Medal votes:
12 - Toby Greene
8 - Josh Kelly
4 - Stephen Coniglio
4 - Nick Haynes
4 - Jacob Hopper
4 - Harry Perryman
4 - Lachie Whitfield
3 - Jeremy Cameron
3 - Tim Taranto
2 - Brent Daniels
1 - Matt de Boer
1 - Harry Himmelberg
1 - Zac Williams
