AFL GRAND FINAL 2011 COLLINGWOOD V GEELONG: UMPIRES ANNOUNCED
Ben Jensen 27 September 2011

AFL GRAND FINAL GEELONG CATS COLLINGWOOD MAGPIES UMPIRES were announced on Tuesday for the Grand Final. Field umpires are Chris Donlon, Brett Rosebury and Shaun Ryan with Matt Stevic the emergency. Donlon and Ryan umpired the round 24 belting of the Magpies by Geelong. They are joined by boundary umpires: Mark Foster, Christopher Gordon, Mark Thomson, Nathan Doig and Jonathon Creasey (emergency) and goal umpires David Dixon, Luke Walker and Chelsea Roffey (emergency). AFL Media Tsar Patrick Keane's bat away of scuttlebutt Roffey was left out after missing a 'hit the post' by Josh Hunt on the weekend would have made Neil Balme proud. "Suggestions of a goal umpiring error by Chelsea Roffey in Saturday's Prelim Final are a media myth. Hunt's long goal never touched the post", he Tweeted. MATCH DETAILS

Meanwhile in last night's Brownlow Medal Geelongs' players picked up a total of 91 votes, the fourth highest after winner Dane Swan's Collingwood (111), Hawthorn (104), West Coast (93) and Carlton (92). As expected Joel Selwood picked up the most votes (17), despite missing four matches with suspension. Next were Steve Johnson (12) and Joel Corey (11), the only others in double figures.

Dane Swan won the award with a record number of votes in the '3-2-1' era, from St Kilda's Nick Dal Santo on 28. Suspended Hawk Sam Mitchell finished on 30. Former Geelong champion Gary Ablett polled most of his fledgeling club's votes (23). The pre-Brownlow favourite Chris Judd and relatively unfancied Swan swapped positions of last year, where Judd was an outsider and Swan the short-priced favourite.