{"id":899771,"date":"2026-09-21T06:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899771\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T06:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:32:18","slug":"brownlow-medal-2026-live-updates-vote-count-round-by-round-winner-red-carpet-photos-isaac-heeney-plan-revealed-nick-daicos-clear-favourite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899771\/","title":{"rendered":"Brownlow Medal 2026 live updates, vote count round by round, winner, red carpet photos: Isaac Heeney plan revealed; Nick Daicos clear favourite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kane Cornes has revealed the AFL\u2019s back-up plan if currently sanctioned Sydney Swans player Isaac Heeney wins the Brownlow Medal. <\/p>\n

Heeney, along with teammates Chad Warner, Nick Blakey, James Jordon and Riley Bice, were suspended for the remainder of the 2026 season<\/a> for breaching club standards following a night of partying in Melbourne after their round 23 game.<\/p>\n

The five suspended players were not invited to this year\u2019s Brownlow Medal, but remain eligible to win the award and poll votes<\/a>, the AFL confirmed last month.<\/p>\n

Speaking on SEN, Cornes revealed that in the \u201cunlikely\u201d event Heeney did win the Brownlow, it would be Swans CEO Matthew Pavlich in attendance who would accept the award in Heeney\u2019s absence and read out a speech written by the player.<\/p>\n

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Isaac Heeney.\u00a0AFL Photos<\/p>\n

It would be the first time Heeney would break his silence since the Pullman Hotel saga broke. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere were some reports on Footy Classified that Channel Seven and the AFL didn\u2019t want to acknowledge what happens if Isaac Heeney wins the Brownlow Medal tonight,\u201d Cornes said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not correct, there\u2019s actually a plan for what happens if Isaac Heeney wins the Brownlow Medal tonight. <\/p>\n

\u201cI can tell you that Matthew Pavlich will accept Isaac Heeney\u2019s medal tonight and Matthew Pavlich will read out Isaac Heeney\u2019s speech. <\/p>\n

\u201cShould, and it\u2019s very unlikely, Isaac Heeney be the Brownlow Medallist tonight – Pavlich will be in the…Palladium and he will accept the Brownlow and read a speech that is currently written by Heeney tonight. <\/p>\n

\u201c(It\u2019s) highly unlikely, they\u2019re expecting Heeney to poll low 20s and obviously Nick Daicos to poll high 40s.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kane Cornes has revealed the AFL\u2019s back-up plan if currently sanctioned Sydney Swans player Isaac Heeney wins the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-899771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899771","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=899771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}