The seesawing nature of Collingwood’s five-point loss to Richmond at the MCG has failed to be replicated in this week’s AFL Coaches Association Champion Player of the Year award.
Five Tigers were among the players selected by Nathan Buckley and Damien Hardwick to receive votes, with Dane Swan Collingwood’s only vote getter.
Swan polled seven of a maximum ten votes (five for each coach) for his 32-disposal, two-goal game.
His ability to clear the ball from the contest no doubt impressed the coaches. The 31-year-old had a season-high 11 clearances, seven more than the next highest individual total.
Sunday’s clash with the Tigers resulted in the first game this season Scott Pendlebury hasn’t featured in the AFLCA Champion Player of the Year weekly voting.
The skipper’s 19-disposal performance has led to him dropping from third in the leaderboard to an equal fourth place.
Pendlebury’s Richmond counterpart Trent Cotchin tallied nine votes for his 32-disposal performance with Brett Deledio, Shaun Grigg, Ivan Maric and Jack Riewoldt rounded out the votes.
Fremantle’s Nat Fyfe remains the runaway leader of the prestigious award on 58 votes. The midfielder is 22 votes ahead of Sydney’s Dan Hannebery in second place.
Round Seven - Collingwood v Richmond
9 Trent Cotchin (Richmond)
7 Brett Deledio (Richmond)
7 Dane Swan (Collingwood)
5 Shaun Grigg (Richmond)
1 Ivan Maric (Richmond)
1 Jack Riewoldt (Richmond)
Collingwood players at the end of round seven, 2015
30 Scott Pendlebury
18 Dane Swan
11 Brodie Grundy
10 Taylor Adams, Steele Sidebottom
8 Adam Oxley, Paul Seedsman
5 Jack Crisp
4 Travis Cloke
AFL Leaderboard at the end of round seven, 2015
58 Nat Fyfe (Fremantle)
36 Dan Hannebery (Sydney)
32 David Armitage (St Kilda)
32 Dylan Shiel (GWS)
30 Scott Pendlebury (Collingwood)
29 Josh Kennedy (Sydney)
27 Tom McDonald (Melbourne)
Swan stands alone in AFLCA voting
Midfielder Dane Swan finds his name mixed with a bunch of Richmond players in this weeks voting for the AFL Coaches Association Player of the Year.