2015 Brownlow promises to be a dull affair

What will the AFL glitterati do at the 2015 Brownlow Medal presentation without Geoff Edelsten and his latest trophy girlfriend to titter at?

Edelsten, one-time owner of the Sydney Swans back in the 1980s, has found himself the subject of a bankruptcy arrangement (see http://www.theage.com.au/business/geoffrey-edelsten-settles-his-bankruptcy-creditors-get-a-few-cents-in-the-dollar-20150209-139phu.html).

The amounts of other people's cash Edelsten appears to fling around would give most of us a nose bleed, but he appears to be oblivious. The report mentions a $45,000 engagement ring — did she return it? — and a $48,000 per month bill for travel, hotels and jewelry a few months before declaring bankruptcy. Normal people have their lives turned upside down over a few thousand, but the Edelstens of the world always seem to have plenty of loose change while owing the equivalent of a small country's GDP.

We wonder how the man keeping the makers of Grecian 2000 in champagne and caviar will manage an invitation to the 2015 Brownlow.