Sour grapes by Chocco.
I'm sorry but it's not sour grapes. You can all circle jerk over Bowden's game as much as you like. The fact is for all his disposals, he wasn't that damaging. I doubt any club would trade for Bowden, he'd be a PSD selection at best.
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I actually think that your case would have been better served in Williams had given Joel 3 or 2 votes, but to give him ZERO surely says more about him and his attitude to being beaten by a team that he clearly doesn't rate, than it does about Joel's game.
The fact that the panel raised it even before the votes were given surely puts it into perspective - it was a bizarre non-vote. How could anybody have three Port players ahead of him, and give Brogan top votes in a losing side?
As to to your comment about trade value - you could say that about virtually all 30 year old players, doesn't make them any less valuable to their current club.
I'm sorry, but I just can't agree, if you simply don't rate a player who plays unaccountable football in defence then it doesn't matter how many disposals and marks he gets, you still don't have to rate it.
Personally I'd have given Bowden 1 or 2 votes, but that's it
If the coach tells you play as an offensive half back and you then get 39 disposals of which half I'd say were not chips around the back line, the result is still about 20 possessions that were very damaging how have you not done your job, its not his decision how he plays, its how Tezza tells him how and where to play.
Bowden set up some simply first class forward thrusts last week, no other player could've done it better than he did, simply on fire, he didn't even miss a target.