Sydney Swans co-captain and midfielder Josh Kennedy has received votes for the AFL Coaches Association’s AFL Champion Player Award following Sydney’s defeat to the Gold Coast Suns at Metricon Stadium in Round 6.

Despite the defeat, Kennedy was instrumental in the red and white, seeing him poll two votes from the coaches, the lone Swan to poll votes following the clash.

Kennedy finished with a season-high 42 disposals, 28 handballs, 7 tackles and 11 clearances in the defeat.

Gold Coast Suns Touk Miller claimed the full 10 votes from the clash along with Suns’ Ben King (7), Noah Anderson (7) and Nick Holman (4) also polling votes.

VOTES PLAYER (CLUB)
10 Touk Miller (GCFC)
7 Ben King (GCFC)
7 Noah Anderson (GCFC)
4 Nick Holman (GCFC)
2 Josh Kennedy (SYD)

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Fremantle’s David Mundy tops the leaderboard with 38 votes after he claimed the full 10 votes in his side’s victory over North Melbourne.

VOTES PLAYER (CLUB)
38        David Mundy  FRE
34        Max Gawn       MELB
33        Jack Macrae    WB
31        Ollie Wines      PORT
28        Christian Salem           MELB
28        Taylor Walker ADEL
26        Clayton Oliver MELB
25        Hugh McCluggage       BL
25        Christian Petracca       MELB
24        Jaeger O'Meara          HAW
23        Toby Greene   GWS
23        Dustin Martin  RICH
22        Marcus Bontempelli   WB
22        Adam Treloar  WB
21        Samuel Walsh CARL
20        Zach Merrett   ESS

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.

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