Awkward Brownlow Medal moment ‘one of the great stuff-ups of this year’

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Caroline Wilson has branded the botching of Lachie Neale’s big moment on Brownlow night “one of the great stuff-ups of this year”.

The previous year’s winner is traditionally on hand to hang the medal around the winner’s neck, but in a season drastically impacted by COVID-19, 2019 medallist Fyfe was in Western Australia while Neale was at the Gabba in Brisbane.

“I think what you’ve done at Brisbane is turn into one of the most consistent players in the competition, an absolute superstar. But what followed was nothing but awkward as Neale, unsure of himself, had to be told to pick up the medal and do the adorning himself.Lachie Neale places the medal around his own neck.“Look so many things were difficult about this night … but fair dinkum, trying to find the person who had the idea that Lachie Neale would present the medal to himself is tougher than trying to find out who was responsible for hotel quarantine here in Victoria. No one is owning this,” Wilson said.

 

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