Five Sydney Swans players have polled votes from the coaches following the side's dominant 51-point victory over GWS Giants in Round 20.
Errol Gulden, who claimed his fourth Kirk-Ward Medal on saturday afternoon claimed the full 10 votes for his masterclass performance. The midfielder finishing with 41 disposals, seven clearances, and a staggering 1045 metres gained, becoming the second Swans player to ever record over 1000m gained in a game.
Ruckman Brodie Grundy claimed seven votes following his strong performance of 29 hit outs, seven clearances, 23 disposals, while Chad Warner had 32 disposals, seven clearances and an incredible running goal on his opposite foot for some boundary magic.
James Rowbottom was back to his tackling best with a game-high 11 tackles, eight clearances, 23 disposals and two goals while Charlie Curnow rounded out the clean sweep of coaches votes with four goals.
Votes Player (Club)
10 Errol Gulden (SYD)
7 Brodie Grundy (SYD)
6 Chad Warner (SYD)
5 James Rowbottom (SYD)
2 Charlie Curnow (SYD)
The AFL Coaches Association’s AFL Champion Player Award is an award voted by the 18 coaching panels on a 5,4,3,2,1 basis after each home and away game, acknowledging outstanding effort by an individual player in a season.
Swans star Isaac Heeney currently sits in equal fifth place on the leaderboard.
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