Re: 10 Brownlows, plus many Champions, but why one champion team?
Because as a club we lionise individuals over team.
Frankly it shits me to tears whenever a player of ours wins a Brownlow, Coleman or some other AFL award because it just serves to reinforce the cult of the individual rather than sucess as a club. I've now seen 8 of our players win Charlie and not once have I woken with a hangover the next day or gone out and celebrated with a new tattoo. The cult of personality is holding our club back. Yeah we need champion players but those champions, and us supporters, need to be aware that team sucess is not just predicated on a player going out and getting 30 touches a game. Success only comes when players sacrafice their game for the good of the team and that's something Cooney learnt in the Sydney final-which incidentally I thought was almost his best performance for the year.
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.