Talk:Dick Reynolds

message: I'm no Essendon fan but come on. This is absolutely ridiculous. One of your best players and you give a short biography like this?
I agree144.131.222.34 (talk) 01:58, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
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message: I mean, I know it is all now well and truly 'water under the bridge', but before 1935, the Brownlow medal count - its votes - were publicly released and media distributed week upon week after every match, so that everyone had a running week-by-week tally of who was in front and how the votes were going, player by player.  That is, that was the case up until the end of the 1934 season, which was the first season Dick Reynolds (Essendon) won the award, being only one vote clear of Haydn Bunton Snr (Fitzroy) that year. It would have been Bunton's third Brownlow Medal, had he won, and he would have achieved the exclusive feat of being not only the first to win three, but the only player ever to win four. As fate would have it that year, the stage was set for a major showdown between the two - it just so happened that Essendon was to play Fitzroy in the very final game of the season and the two players at that point were level pegging in the Brownlow Medal count ... and both were rovers for their respective sides.  Now, according to the account I was given by someone who was actually at the match, Bunton clearly outpointed Reynolds on that day, and most of the public agreed so: the only statistic I have on the match, however, is that Bunton kicked five goals that day [the most he had kicked in a single match for the entire season - goals were harder to come by in those days ... his team kicked only twelve all up that day] and Reynolds did not kick a solitary goal for his team that day. The umpire awarded Best-on-Ground [3 votes] to Dick Reynolds and only two votes to Haydn Bunton. Well the story goes that there was such huge public uproar and dispute over the whole matter that ever after that match, the votes were no longer counted and made public after the game but counted at the very end of the season - which is why we now have the big Monday night out, following the season for the all-glamorous, Brownlow Medal count!  Bunton, on the other hand, being the true champion he was, is stated as being the very first person to telegraph his congratulations to Reynolds on the achievement.
But the prime point is that despite the reading of history books, there is great dispute that Bunton should have won four of the coveted Brownlow Medals and Reynolds probably only two!! Good luck with it! This, of course, would have also meant that Bunton would have won seven state Best and fairest medals in major league football at the time in only eleven full seasons of match play - which is an absolutely EXTRAORDINARY feat!!144.131.222.34 (talk) 02:18, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
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