Peter Daicos? No. Gavin Brown? Sorry. Darren Millane? Try again. Maybe Tony Shaw then? Wrong.
This bloke managed to poll 14 votes - eight off the winner, Geelong's Paul Couch - and the only other stars to secure more votes that season were John Platten, Tim Watson, Jason Dunstall, Nicky Winmar and Greg Williams.
Still struggling? Well, don't beat yourself up about it. Not many people would be able to name him either.
In that same season, this player finished runner-up to Brown in the 1989 Copeland Trophy - beaten by a solitary vote - despite playing three fewer games than his teammate.
But while Brown went on to win two more Copelands in a stunning career, the man who finished second never again played a senior match for Collingwood.
Having been a runner-up in the best-and-fairest in 1989, he was sacked a few months after the Magpies won their drought-breaking 1990 premiership, having not played a game all season, despite being one of three emergencies for the Grand Final.
This largely-unheralded footballer is much better known for his stint with his other AFL club, Sydney, and his 41 games in black and white over three seasons have been largely forgotten.
His name was Paul Hawke.
And in one of those matches - 25 years ago next round - he turned in a cameo that helped to get Collingwood over the line against Essendon by a point in a match at Waverley Park.
It was Round 20, 1988, Australia's Bicentennial year. While one Hawke (Bob) was still in The Lodge, another Hawke (Paul) was in his first season at Collingwood, having transferred there after playing 72 games with Sydney. He had been targeted by coach Leigh Matthews to help try and give his team some drive in the middle.
Off the field, he had a disappointing start.
At his first training session, which took place at the LaTrobe University sports ovals, he was still in the process of moving house and had a television and a video recorder in the back seat of his car. By the time he returned to his car, his electronic equipment had been stolen and he had to use his first black and white pay cheque to buy some replacements.
On the field, it was a better start. He played in the first match of 1988, kicking two goals in the Magpies' win over the Brisbane Bears.
In his first eight games with Collingwood, he had 20 disposals or more in each of them.
By the time he came to play against Essendon, in that Round 20 game, Hawke had been brought back into the side after a few weeks off, and his team needed to win to lock in a finals berth.
Essendon was struggling but still had the nucleus of the side that had won the 1984-85 flags.
Hawke wasn't the only inclusion for the Pies that day - Matthews had resurrected the career of the out-of-favour man-mountain Wes Fellowes, who won the 1986 Copeland, as well as rover Matt Ryan.
There was an element of light drama-turned-farce on the Thursday night before the clash, when Bombers coach Kevin Sheedy showed he was up to his old tricks again.
As Lou Richards wrote in his preview in The Sun: "By gee, that Kevin Sheedy's a smart fellow. On Thursday night, he went and hid himself high in the stand at Victoria Park to spy on the Pies.
"Bad luck Sheeds. Smart you might be, but you've got to be up a lot earlier than that to put it over old "Slyboots" Matthews."
Matthews joked to Richards: "I knew he was up there ... That's why I sent the look-alikes out to train."
"We keep them locked up in a cupboard just in case smarties like Sheedy come snooping around."
Richards wrote that Fellowes deserved his chance for another shot at the senior team, having "been starring in the reserves at centre half-forward."
But he had a warning - "Don't blow it, Wes, because if you do, yours is one face that won't appear in the premiership photo."
Two years later, he would be right.
Fellowes didn't perform as well as Matthews had hoped for in his role at centre half-forward, and was dragged from the play with bench player Craig Starcevich brought on in his place.
The other bench player was Hawke. He, too, would be brought into the play to give the Magpies a lift. And, in contrast to Fellowes, he made the most of it with 20 touches and two goals.
Essendon started with four goals to one in the first quarter, opening up a 22-point lead by the first change. As the Sun reported: "The Dons monopolised the first 20 minutes of play with the strong wind at their backs and when (Brian) Taylor goaled after 23 minutes, it was Collingwood's first scoring chance."
Worse still, Daicos was nursing a very sore cheekbone, after an incident when Terry Daniher the Magpie star heavily near the boundary line, but was not reported.
At a later tribunal hearing, umpire John Russo recalled: "Player Daicos had gone to the ground and (Collingwood's Michael) Christian had run in obviously to remonstrate with player Daniher. I saw him for the last 30 metres as he ran into (Daniher) and bowled him over."
"I have no doubt player Christian was concerned about what had happened to player Daicos. But he inflamed the situation and if we allow that to go we would be in strife."
Daniher said later: "It all happened pretty quick. I remember Christian running in and he went to grab me. I grabbed him and the next thing a pack formed.
"There was a bit of a wrestle, it all happened pretty quick. It was more the weight of the pack that took me to the ground."
Christian said: "I was probably 20 metres away when I saw one of my teammates go down. I thought it was unfair."
Christian would be cleared. Daniher would be handed out a two-match suspended sentence, with AFL executive commissioner Alan Schwab saying: "When a guy is only about 25 games short of his 300, has been reported only once, and has no record, then that speaks for itself. He is a credit to his state, and highly enjoyable company."
It wouldn't be the last time Daniher would be up at the tribunal for an incident against Collingwood. Two years later, in a Grand Final, the Essendon star would be in the midst of it again, but this time he would be heavily suspended - not with the penalty suspended.
Daicos said of the incident with Daniher that he had picked the ball up close to the boundary line and side-stepped Tim Watson.
"I felt a blow to the side of the face," Daicos said, who managed to play on. "I don't remember which player was involved or what part of the body made contact. I was stunned and a little bit sore, but it was not serious."
The Bombers' lead at quarter-time should have been greater - nine scoring shots to two.
Collingwood's use of the wind in the second term did not generate the scores Matthews desired. Both teams kicked two goals for the quarter and the deficit was still 20 points.
Two mistakes from Tony Elshaug - in one of only six games for Collingwood in a career that yielded 137 in total - when kicking in from goal didn't helped the Magpies' cause in the third term.
Matthews said: "My knowledge of the rule is that you have got to kick the ball two metres from the kick-off line. He (Elshaug) obviously thought two metres from the body. I would have been asking the umpire the first time what I did wrong.
"It cost us two points because we had to force it through. At least that part was done well with discipline."
It was during the third term that the Magpies launched a bid, and the likes of Daicos and Millane were keys in the revival, while James Manson did a good job on Simon Madden in the ruck.
Still, by time-on in the third quarter, the Bombers led by 18 points.
Enter Paul Hawke.
As the Sun said: "Hawke, started on the bench with Starcevich, gave the Magpies the lift around the ground to help out courageous captain Tony Shaw who, as usual, was always at the drop of the ball." The Herald recorded: "Collingwood's fight-back began when Hawke, who had come on during the third quarter, kicked two quick and timely goals late in the term to reduce the deficit to just 11 points at three quarter time."
By the 13-minute-mark of the last term, Collingwood managed to hit the lead and threatened to run away with the contest.
The difference was back to a point late in the game before Shaw slammed home one for Collingwood to afford it a small amount of breathing space, Then Darren 'Daisy' Williams kicked the final goal of the game in the dying seconds. He had cut the margin back to one point in Collingwood's favour before the final siren sounded six seconds later.
Matthews said after the match: "There's no doubting the character and strength of the guys to finish on.
"We didn't start the match with the zip I would like and we still have to make some improvement ... and we can."
The one-point margin was the seventh time Collingwood and Essendon had had a finish with the barest margins (with the others coming in 1901, 1927, 1938, 1945, 1949 and 1952).
That would become eight times after the 2012 ANZAC Day game.
For Collingwood fans, there was something eerily familiar with the 10.14 (74) to 10.13 (73) result in that 1988 clash. That was the exactly the score line as it had been when St Kilda beat Collingwood in the 1966 Grand Final. At least this time, the Magpies were on the winning side of the ledger.
The Magpies made the finals in 1988 and then again in '89, with Hawke missing the ‘89 elimination final with injury.
He would not run out in the seniors in black and white again.
After failing to win selection in the 1990 season, he was dumped in early 1991, after receiving a phone call from football manager Graeme Allan, telling him his services were no longer required.
"I wasn't expecting anything like that. And when you're not expecting something like that, it really does come as a shock," Hawke said at the time.
He would manage one more match after his original club Sydney granted him a reprieve in 1991.
The irony is that while Hawke is best remembered as a Swan, his best season - 1989 – came in Collingwood colours.
