Fevola draws attention from opposition defenders like sugar on your bench-top attracts ants, but he couldn't get enough attention from the Carlton match committee at voting time to snare the award.
Like the Brownlow, club best-and-fairest awards have been dominated in recent decades by midfielders, who have the opportunity to shine whether teams are winning or losing, while key forwards are dependent on the ball coming to them.
Judd, who took the award ahead of Marc Murphy and then Fevola, told the VRC's footy finals fever lunch yesterday that Fevola should have won.
"I think Fev had the best season out of any of the players at the club," the Herald Sun reported.
"When you look at the individual awards they tend to be skewed towards midfielders, who, win, lose, or draw, have an opportunity to play well. They are in the centre of the ground.
"When you do have a bad loss, it's pretty tough for the forwards to play well."
Judd said the Blues' voting system had helped him over the line.
"(Fevola) came over to my house before the All-Australian dinner and we had a cold (beer) before we headed in and I said how I thought the new voting system was good and he said it was terrible."
