{"id":471731,"date":"2025-09-22T21:22:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=471731"},"modified":"2025-09-22T23:24:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T23:24:50","slug":"pre-count-predictions-prove-how-insane-rowells-win-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=471731","title":{"rendered":"Pre-count predictions prove how insane Rowell's win was"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Rowell's win<\/a> was a surprise to himself, and frankly everyone else on Brownlow Medal night.<\/p>\n

\ufeffThe Gold Coast Suns<\/a> star was fifth in the betting markets but came away with the win on 39 votes.<\/p>\n

Nick Daicos was second on 32, while Bailey Smith rounded out the podium on 29.<\/p>\n

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At the Crown on Monday night, Wide World of Sports asked a number of players and figures who their pick was before the \ufeffcount started.<\/p>\n

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The list doesn't include Rowell at all, indicating how much of a roughie he truly was.<\/p>\n

See their winner predictions below:<\/p>\n

Andrew Dillon (AFL CEO):<\/strong> Nick Daicos<\/p>\n

Jordan Dawson (Adelaide captain):<\/strong> Nick Daicos<\/p>\n

Riley Thilthorpe (Adelaide):<\/strong> Jordan Dawson<\/p>\n

Ben Keays (Adelaide):<\/strong> Jordan Dawson<\/p>\n

Charlie Curnow (Carlton):<\/strong> Nick Daicos and Bailey Smith<\/p>\n

Eddie McGuire (Ex Collingwood president):<\/strong> Nick Daicos<\/p>\n

Darcy Moore (Collingwood captain):<\/strong> Nick Daicos<\/p>\n

Josh Daicos (Collingwood):<\/strong> His brother, Nick<\/p>\n

Zach Merrett (Essendon captain):<\/strong> Jordan Dawson<\/p>\n

\"Essendon<\/p>\n

Nic Martin (Essendon):<\/strong> Jordan Dawson<\/p>\n

Matt Rowell (Gold Coast):<\/strong> Noah Anderson<\/p>\n

Patrick Dangerfield (Geelong captain):<\/strong> Jordan Dawson (backing his pre-season tip)<\/p>\n

Ollie Dempsey (Geelong):<\/strong> Bailey Smith<\/p>\n

Toby Greene (GWS captain):<\/strong> Nick Daicos<\/p>\n

Robert Dipierdomenico (Hawthorn great):<\/strong> Nick Daicos and Bailey Smith<\/p>\n

Sam Mitchell (Hawthorn coach):<\/strong> Nick Daicos and Bailey Smith<\/p>\n

Kozzy Pickett (Melbourne):<\/strong> Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera<\/p>\n

Toby Nankervis (Richmond captain):<\/strong> Jordan Dawson<\/p>\n

Callum Mills (Sydney captain):<\/strong> Jordan Dawson<\/p>\n

Isaac Heeney (Sydney):<\/strong> Nick Daicos<\/p>\n

Ben Cousins (West Coast great):<\/strong> Nick Daicos<\/p>\n

Marcus Bontempelli (Western Bulldogs captain):<\/strong> Noah Anderson<\/p>\n

\"Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Rowell's win was a surprise to himself, and frankly everyone else on Brownlow Medal night. \ufeffThe Gold Coast Suns star was fifth in the […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":471733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471737,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471731\/revisions\/471737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/471733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}