PATRICK Cripps continued to enhance his already outstanding reputation, while records were broken at both ends of the spectrum for a couple of Blues.

From a Navy Blue standpoint, here’s how the 2019 Brownlow Medal happened.

Murphy’s place among the greats

When it comes to Brownlow votes at the Carlton Football Club, Marc Murphy is now on Mount Rushmore.

With his six votes in last night’s count, Murphy surpassed Bruce Doull (108) and Justin Madden (107) to now sit on 112 votes.

Now, the former captain joins three of his predecessors — Craig Bradley, Alex Jesaulenko and Chris Judd.

Murphy surpassed both Doull and Madden with his match-winning performance in Round 15, while he added another best-on-ground performance in Round 22 against St Kilda.

Cripps on the verge of Carlton history

With an average of 0.74 votes per game, Patrick Cripps has raced to 75 career votes after effectively five seasons at the elite level.

It has seen him race to 11th on the all-time list at Carlton already, with his best still to come.

Cripps’ tally of 26 votes was the most of any Carlton player to not win the award, surpassing the 23 which Judd posted in 2011.

Walsh well on his way

You have to go back 40 years for a Blue Brownlow season as prolific as Sam Walsh’s.

Polling the most votes of any Rising Star in the last decade, Walsh collected six votes on Monday night, with two of those coming against reigning premier West Coast.

Impressively, three of the games which Walsh polled in were against three of the top five teams on the AFL ladder come the end of the home-and-away season.

In 1979, Alex Marcou polled seven votes: he’s the last player in his outright debut season to poll more than Walsh. The likes of Peter Bosustow, Mike Fitzpatrick and Ken Hunter eclipsed them, but all had prior experience in the WAFL and were aged 22 or above.

Lucky 13

It was clearly the Patrick Cripps show on Brownlow night, particularly with the midfield bull making up 18 of Carlton’s first 21 Brownlow votes.

However, it couldn’t have been more different in the second half of the season: as the wins came for the Blues, so did the variation in votes.

Eleven different players polled from Round 12 onwards, leaving the Blues with 13 individual vote-getters on the night: the equal-second most in the competition.

You never forget your first

While the familiar faces of Cripps, Murphy and Kreuzer were among the 13 who polled, there were also a number of Blues who received their first Brownlow votes.

It all started with Harry McKay, who registered a single vote for his dominant showing against the Western Bulldogs in Round 5.

Walsh, Jacob Weitering (both Round 12) would follow suit, as did Nic Newman, Matthew Kennedy and Will Setterfield in successive weeks.

Newman’s first batch of Brownlow votes were sweet, producing a best-on-ground performance against his former side Sydney at the SCG.

Who was unlucky?

Can you be unlucky in a 26-vote season? Sure, why not.

As Nat Fyfe broke away from the pack, the Carlton table at the Crown Palladium would’ve been looking for Cripps to poll in Rounds 17 and 23, as well as maximum votes in Round 8. It wasn’t to be.

However, in an award so often dubbed as one for the midfielders, the unluckiest Blues on Brownlow night were Levi Casboult and Liam Jones.

Casboult didn’t poll for outstanding performances against Adelaide and St Kilda, while Liam Jones was left wanting despite starring against the likes of Sydney, Gold Coast and Richmond.

Round-by-round voting

Round 1 v Richmond

3. Trent Cotchin (RICH)
2. Patrick Cripps
1. Toby Nankervis

Round 2 v Port Adelaide

3. Patrick Cripps 
2. Travis Boak (PA)
1. Tom Rockliff (PA)

Round 3 v Sydney

3. Isaac Heeney (SYD)
2. Patrick Cripps
1. Josh Kennedy (SYD)

Round 4 v Gold Coast

3. Patrick Cripps
2. Touk Miller (GC)
1. Jarrod Witts (GC)

Round 5 v Western Bulldogs

3. Patrick Cripps
2. Sam Petrevski-Seton
1. Harry McKay

Round 6 v Hawthorn

3. Jaegar O'Meara (HAW)
2. Liam Shiels (HAW) 
1. Patrick Cripps

Round 7 v North Melbourne

3. Cameron Zurhaar (NM)
2. Trent Dumont (NM)
1. Shaun Higgins (NM)

Round 8 v Collingwood

3. Brodie Grundy (COLL)
2. Patrick Cripps
1. Scott Pendlebury (COLL)

Round 9 v Greater Western Sydney

3. Lachie Whitfield (GWS)
2. Josh Kelly (GWS)
1. Tim Taranto (GWS)

Round 10 v St Kilda

3. Jade Gresham (STK)
2. Patrick Cripps
1. Jack Steele (STK)

Round 11 v Essendon

3. Dyson Heppell (ESS)
2. Darcy Parish (ESS)
1. Michael Hurley (ESS)

Round 12 v Brisbane

3. Patrick Cripps
2. Sam Walsh
1. Jacob Weitering

Round 13 v Western Bulldogs

3. Charlie Curnow
2. Josh Dunkley (WBD)
1. Jack Macrae (WBD)

Round 15 v Fremantle

3. Marc Murphy
2. Ed Curnow
1. Nat Fyfe (FRE)

Round 16 v Melbourne

3. Tom McDonald (MEL)
2. Bayley Fritsch (MEL)
1. Clayton Oliver (MEL)

Round 17 v Sydney

3. Nic Newman 
2. Matthew Kreuzer
1. Sam Walsh

Round 18 v Gold Coast

3. Ed Curnow
2. Touk Miller (GC)
1. Matthew Kennedy

Round 19 v Adelaide

3. Patrick Cripps
2. Kade Simpson
1. Will Setterfield

Round 20 v West Coast

3. Luke Shuey (WCE)
2. Sam Walsh 
1. Elliot Yeo (WCE)

Round 21 v Richmond

3. Dion Prestia (RICH)
2. Patrick Cripps 
1. Jack Graham (RICH)

Round 22 v St Kilda

3. Marc Murphy
2. Seb Ross (STK) 
1. Matthew Kreuzer

Round 23 v Richmond

3. Patrick Dangerfield (GEEL)
2. Gary Ablett (GEEL)
1. Sam Walsh