{"id":197401,"date":"2025-10-08T09:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/197401\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:21:07","slug":"collingwood-may-change-copeland-trophy-best-and-fairest-voting-over-nick-daicos-finishing-2nd-craig-mcrae-coach-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/197401\/","title":{"rendered":"Collingwood may change Copeland Trophy best and fairest voting over Nick Daicos finishing 2nd, Craig McRae coach, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collingwood coach Craig McRae will push the club to look at changing how it votes for the Copeland Trophy best and fairest award, after Nick Daicos finished second.<\/p>\n<p>At the Pies\u2019 awards night, McRae <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/afl\/afl-2025-collingwood-magpies-legend-peter-daicos-storms-out-of-copeland-trophy-function-after-craig-mcrae-sledge-at-nick-daicos-what-happened-latest-news\/news-story\/02c6aa0b3cc095b19bf8d5b5cb1c9c43\" title=\"www.foxsports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">quipped that Daicos might finally win a Brownlow with \u201ca few more 16-disposal games\u201d<\/a>, in reference to him finishing runner-up to Matt Rowell &#8211; who confusingly polled in some below-average games on route to victory.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, Daicos finished runner-up at his own club, polling 315 votes behind ruckman Darcy Cameron, who won with 328.<\/p>\n<p>Watch every match of the 2025 NAB AFL Women\u2019s Season LIVE ad-break free during play. 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For Free and confidential support call 1800 858 858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Maybe a few more 16 disposal games!&#8217; | 00:22<\/p>\n<p>The Magpies\u2019 best and fairest sees five coaches give between zero and four votes to each player for every game, with a maximum of 20 per game.<\/p>\n<p>McRae now believes the system needs to be looked at.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe process is in place, but I always want to challenge them,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cleary_mitch\/status\/1975715385870807400\" title=\"x.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">he told Seven<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Darcy Cameron is a great winner, but I\u2019d look at the process and there were times where I think Nick probably could\u2019ve got more votes here and there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll make sure, with the position I\u2019m in, that I\u2019ll be able to ask the right questions of the right people and make the necessary changes where we think there need to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Craig McRae, Senior Coach of the Magpies and Nick Daicos of the Magpies celebrate during the 2025 AFL Round 02 match between the Footscray Bulldogs and the Collingwood Magpies at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on March 21, 2025 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Michael Willson\/AFL Photos via Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Daicos has finished on the Brownlow podium for three consecutive years.<\/p>\n<p>His 98 votes between 2023-25 are the most ever recorded across a three-year period without the player actually winning a Brownlow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collingwood coach Craig McRae will push the club to look at changing how it votes for the Copeland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-197401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197401","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=197401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}