Talk:Haydn Bunton Sr.

Sandover Medal Request
I would like to present the information about Bunton's Sandover medal's the same way as the Brownlow info has been presented, i.e. with a template of 3 time winners and a succession box at the bottom of the page. Problem is that I'm not very good with wiki code. If somebody could sort this out that would be super :) Westralian 16:01, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Football
The claim that he won Champion Of The Colony award is disputed as there is no evidence that such an award was ever given to Victorian footballers. RossRSmith (talk) 12:15, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Possibly so, RossSmith ... but was he a New South Welshman, Victorian, Tasmanian, Western Australian, or South Australian???!! I mean, if ever a footballer truly represented 'Australian' football (Shall we say, "colonial football"?), surely, since he had "bin everywhere, Man", perhaps it was Haydn Bunton??(Denidowi (talk) 14:45, 23 April 2009 (UTC))

Brownlow Medal disputes
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 all 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). It would have been Bunton's third Brownlow Medal, had he won, and he would have achieved the exclusive reputation for being not only the first to win three, but the only ever to win four. As fate would have it, it just so happened that Essendon played Fitzroy in the very last game of the season and the two players at that point were level in the Brownlow Medal count - both were rovers. 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 is that Bunton kicked five goals that day [the most he had kicked in a match for the entire season - goals were harder to come by in those days ... his team had kicked only twelve all up] and Reynolds had not kicked a solitary goal for his team. 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 uproar and dispute from much of the public that ever after that match, the votes were not counted until the very end of the season - which is now why we have the big Monday night following the season for the all-glamorous, Brownlow Medal count!!

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 only eleven full seasons of football - which is actually, an EXTRAORDINARY feat!!144.131.222.34 (talk) 01:42, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

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