So he won a b&f in 2020 that actually equated to just 3 brownlow votes even the idiot umps saw him for what he is.
Do you rate Grimes?
He's won a B&F and doesn't get Brownlow votes
So I'd suggest your flimsy argument doesn't exactly hold
Unless of course you only apply it to players you don't like
Players i dont like you bet ya i cant stand totally soft totally outside blokes whose skills are over rated.Everyone knows i disliked Ellis as a player enormously and the same applies to Short. They are exactly alike.
I find the oh he won a b&f or he came top 5 or whatever a flimsy argument in itself. So why not apply a flimsy reply to it.
But hey of course you wouln't see it for that.
For the record as you well know Grimes is a totally different player to Short and players like him never poll well.
Yet blokes who get a whole pile of ball and run and supposedly bounce and supposedly use it well should at least get some, yet Short has polled just 4 in his career.
Th obvious truth is Grimes unlike Short is critical and is almost irreplaceable. To say Short is not critical and can be replaced easily is what this is all about and it seems it gets up peoples noses.
Short like Ellis and even Houli are afforded roles that an awful lot can turn their hand to.
We will struggle to replace in fact cant really replace players like Martin, Cotchin, Prestia, Riewoldt Lynch Grimes Nankervis Vlastuin
But Short!!! well we found a better player who was much maligned in just 5 games last year in Rioli.
Most don't like to talk about the poor disposal, the soft efforts the lack of tackling the lack of hard ball even the lack of line breaking that many talk him up about. The lack of one percenters and on it goes. But hey his mates get it out to him an awful lot and that makes him a gun lol.
No i don't like him i cannot abide squibs. IMO he is very much replaceable a B&F or not and nothing will change that.