1996 Brownlow Medal

June 2026 December 2017 1996 Brownlow Medal World Congress Centre Winners Michael Voss ()James Hird ()21 votes Seven Network 1995 Brownlow Medal 1997 The 1996 Brownlow Medal was the 69th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Australian Football League (AFL) home and away season.AFL Record Season Guide 2009 2009 Lovett, Michael Slattery Media Group Docklands, Victoria 496 978-0-9805162-6-5 Michael Voss of the Brisbane Bears and James Hird of the Essendon Football Club both won the medal by polling twenty-one votes during the 1996 AFL season.http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?page=1&sy=nstore&docID=news960924_0110_0688 Michael Voss and James Hird – Brownlow Medallists Ashley Browne 29 September 1996 The Age Corey McKernan of the North Melbourne Football Club polled the same number of votes as Voss and Hird, but due to a tribunal suspension during the year, he was deemed ineligible to win the award. This caused some to call for the rules to be changed to allow suspended players to still be eligible. http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?page=1&sy=nstore&docID=news960924_0110_0688 Maintain medal rules, says Roos Sian Watkins 24 September 1996 The Age The eligibility rules have remained the same since then, relying on the fairest section of fairest and best to continue to exclude suspended players from being able to win the award. McKernan went on to be a member of North Melbourne's winning 1996 AFL Grand Final team, something that both Voss and Hird said that they would prefer over winning the medal. In the lead-up to the count, the AFL requested that the previous year's winner, Paul Kelly, attend the count in person at the World Congress Centre in Melbourne rather than via video link from Sydney. This caused a betting plunge on Kelly.http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?page=1&sy=nstore&kw=michael+voss+and+james+hird+and+brownlow&pb=all_ffx&dt=selectRange&dr=entire&so=relevance&sf=text&sf=headline&rc=200&rm=200&sp=nrm&clsPage=1&docID=news960922_0191_6337 League orders Kelly to medal count Martin Blake 22 September 1996 The Age Leading vote-getters Position Player Votes =1st Michael Voss () 21 James Hird () Corey McKernan ()* 21 =3rd Chris Grant () 20 Nathan Burke () 5th Garry Hocking () 19 6th Paul Salmon () 18=7th Justin Charles () 17 Stewart Loewe () Guy McKenna () Robert Harvey () * The player was ineligible to win the medal due to suspension by the AFL Tribunal during the year. References External links 1996 Brownlow Medal http://afltables.com/afl/brownlow/brownlow1996.html AFL Tables Brownlow Medal 1996 Brownlow Medal