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)
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
28Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Taylor Walker ADEL
26Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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
21Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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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