What an effort by Chris Judd who polled 30 votes, 7 clear of Mark Ricciuto from Adelaide and 1 clear of the collective total of the Hawthorn Football Club.


Well done Chris.

The funny thing for me was I expected Roo to get 23 votes and win the Brownlow. I got one right, but totally underestimated Judd! Always knew he was a quality player, but he just smoked the rest of the competition - WOW!

Shit did he win in style... to be that far clear is a tremendous effot! And Treadrea.... what happenned there? I thought he would be up in the top three at least with such a stellar season, but I 'spose the umps didn't see it that way.
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The biggest rip off of the night was that Nathan Buckely didn't win it.

The second biggest rip off of the night is that Eddie McGuire didnt host it.

Kidding on both counts.

Well done to Chris Judd. Considering he was recruited only 3 years ago (draft pick number3), he has starred. He is welcome at Collingwood any day.

anyone got a pic of Judd;s missus ? I heard she is a hottie but the frigging telecast didnt come on TV till after 11.00 in SYd and I had to tape it.

Judd wins Brownlow Medal
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West Coast midfielder Chris Judd has won the 2004 Brownlow Medal, awarded to the best and fairest player in the AFL's home and away competition.

Judd polled 30 votes and finished seven clear of 2003 Brownlow Medallist Mark Ricciuto (23 votes) of Adelaide.

Port Adelaide's Chad Cornes was a further vote back on 22.

Judd is the first Eagle to win the award in the club's 18-year history, and at 21 years old he is the youngest recipient since Gavin Wanganeen in 1993.

Pre-count favourite Warren Tredrea of Port Adelaide was not as popular with the umpires as expected, only polling in seven matches and finishing with 15 votes, one less than his tally in 2003.

But Judd said he had been expecting the Power key forward to win.

"I thought there was probably a month of football where I thought I'd get a few votes," he said.

"I was probably pretty fortunate to get the votes I did early on and just from the footy I watched I thought Tredrea was excellent and he probably would have been a very deserved winner."

Judd's contract with West Coast expires soon, but he has played down continuing speculation of a move back to Victoria.

"We've got a lot of good young players who are improving year by year so hopefully success is not too far away. I haven't got too many plans to move, so you can take from that what you will.

"I think there's a genuine possibility that in the next two or three years we could give it a shake and that's what we'd be hoping ... certainly a lot of players have to improve on where they're at at the minute, and as a group we've got to improve, but I genuinely think that in the years to come we've got a genuine chance of success."

And the youngster said he did not expect the Medal to alter the way he played or conducted himself around the club.

"Our senior players are probably the ones we look to and I'm probably not part of that yet," he said. "Maybe that will happen down the track, but as yet I haven't felt any pressure from my team-mates."

Others who performed strongly included the Western Bulldogs' Scott West (20) and Sydney's Brett Kirk (20).
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Rebecca Twigley...
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Judd had soaring ambition
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DUD shoulders that had to be rebuilt one after the other at age 16 and 17 could not stop Chris Judd's seemingly pre-ordained journey to football greatness.

But even had injuries stopped his career in his teens, Judd would still have found a way to rise above the pack after scoring 92.6 in his VCE.
"He'd be studying law somewhere and looking to become prime minister," said Greg Meredith, his former coach at Caulfield Grammar. "He's a frightening package."

It is a message echoed by all who have watched the boy from Sandringham grow into the Brownlow Medallist from Perth.

Judd played his first game at age seven with East Sandringham juniors.

"He seemed to be a man playing boys' football," former club president Steve Tickell recalled.

The young Juddernaut knocked up winning awards, and already the East Sandy juniors play for the Chris Judd Perpetual Trophy.

Former VFL premiership star Barry Rowlings monitored Judd's development, as Caulfield Grammar's director of football, but admits he had little to teach the young genius.

"We would just go along, watch him and enjoy him," Rowlings said.

Former school teammate Nick Fallu played with Judd for six years.

"You could just kick the ball to him and he would do the rest," he said.

Mr Fallu was at Federation Square yesterday, watching the 2004 Brownlow Medallist make his first public appearance since Monday night's count. The medal couldn't have gone to a better bloke, he said.

"He's a very funny guy . . . he's the type of person who is always interested in what you are doing."

Judd's drive has always matched his talent.

"He'd kick the banana kick out the front gate over and over again," recalled his mother Lisa Engel, an education officer at Diabetes Australia.

"He was always doing things like that. Just hour after hour he'd be out there. He would have been about six, I suppose."

Judd's progress from AFL rookie to All Australian and Brownlow Medallist in three years has made him a household name.

It's something the intelligent 21-year-old is not comfortable with.

He refuses to release pictures from his childhood.

"I think he thinks the media gets enough of him and the last thing he wants is little boy pictures in the paper," his mother said.

Despite what Eddie would say, not everything is black and white.

While resentful of the media's intrusion, and a proud non-reader of newspapers, he draws a wage from Channel 9 in Perth, working at a weekly news cross to anchor Dennis Cometti. He also writes Juddy's Jibes on the Eagles website, with an easy style and wry humour.

"We're not counting our chickens before they've hatched, we realise that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush and we're just taking it one week at a time," he wrote in a pre-finals column.

Mrs Judd said her boy had inherited his great sense of humour from his father, Andrew, an IT consultant. "His father is very funny, very dry."

Judd explained his aversion to the media on Monday night: "If you read the newspapers and listen to the news and believe what they say, effectively you're giving up control of your emotions to a third party.

"Effectively, journalists who write about you or talk about you are in control of how you feel."

Ironically, Judd enrolled in a university media course when he arrived in Perth, but is not studying at the moment.
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With a rack like that it's no wonder AFL is spreading north.

She dominated the Brownlow coverage up here.

She sure knew how to "tittilate" LOL

Kinda looks like Jessica Alba.