{"id":182907,"date":"2025-10-01T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/182907\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:29:08","slug":"matt-rowell-completes-brownlow-bf-double-for-gold-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/182907\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Rowell completes Brownlow-B&#038;F double for Gold Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brownlow medallist Matt Rowell has earned even more recognition for his impressive 2025 season, taking out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/gold-coast-suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gold Coast<\/a> Suns&#8217; best-and-fairest award on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s yet another reward for a career-best year from the 24-year-old, who last month took out the Brownlow medal, and in August was named in the All-Australian team.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Rowell&#8217;s first time being crowned the Suns&#8217; club champion, after he edged out second-place Noah Anderson by one vote, and third-place Touk Miller by two votes.<\/p>\n<p>Rowell was an integral part of the Suns making their first ever finals appearance in 2025, as he averaged 26.3 disposals and 8.6 tackles for the season.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/news\/christian-petracca-trade-what-melbourne-wants-star-player\/d6403e2c0cb58e3159def46c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Christian Petracca trade: What Melbourne wants for star player<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In last week&#8217;s Brownlow count, he polled the second most votes in a single season ever with 39.<\/p>\n<p>2025 Gold Coast Suns Best-and-Fairest Results<\/p>\n<p>1: Matt Rowell (72)<br \/>2: Noah Anderson (71)<br \/>3: Touk Miller (70)<br \/>4: Bailey Humphrey (61)<br \/>5: Sam Collins (59)<br \/>6: Jarrod Witts (58)<br \/>6: Ben Long (58)<br \/>8: John Noble (49)<br \/>9: Wil Powell (48)<br \/>10: Ben King (47)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brownlow medallist Matt Rowell has earned even more recognition for his impressive 2025 season, taking out the Gold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-182907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}