Brownlow Medal wrap
By Brendan Day
Sydney Swan Daniel Hannebery showed why he was chosen for the All-Australian team this year, scoring 21 votes at last night’s Brownlow Medal and leading a strong contingent of Swans and GIANTS players.
The Gold Coast Suns’ Gary Ablett Jr. was the winner of the Medal, with his best-on-ground performance in the last round giving him 28 votes for the season, one more than his former Geelong teammate Joel Selwood.
Hannebery, who was leading the race with Ablett after 11 rounds with 18 votes, ended up finishing a very respectable sixth. His Swans and All-Australian teammate Kieren Jack polled in ten of the 22 games he played to earn 19 votes, good enough for equal-ninth with Richmond’s Trent Cotchin.
The tireless Josh Kennedy won 14 votes to be the Swans’ third-best vote-getter, with the club’s other All-Australian, Jarrad McVeigh, earning 12 votes in a stellar season.
For the GWS GIANTS, their goal-kicking phenomenon Jeremy Cameron pulled in six votes to be their top vote-getter with vice-captain Tom Scully gaining five votes himself.
Co-captain Callan Ward, recipient of four votes, was the only GIANTS player to score the maximum three votes in any round, winning man-of-the-match honours in the club’s win over Melbourne in Round 19.
Richmond’s Dustin Martin, who played for Sydney AFL’s Campbelltown Blues in his teenage years, polled 16 votes to be his side’s second-highest vote-getter after Trent Cotchin. St Kilda’s Lenny Hayes, a Pennant Hills junior, and Hawthorn’s Luke Breust, a Temora product, each scored two votes whilst Dean Terlich, a mature-age rookie from Osborne (and now with the Melbourne Demons) secured one vote.
SYDNEY SWANS BROWNLOW VOTES
Dan Hannebery – 21 votes
Kieren Jack – 19
Josh Kennedy -14
Jarrad McVeigh – 12
Ryan O’Keefe – 6
Shane Mumford – 5
Adam Goodes – 4
Ted Richards – 3
Craig Bird, Lewis Jetta, Nick Malceski, Tom Mitchell, Kurt Tippett 2
Jesse White 1
GWS GIANTS BROWNLOW VOTES
Jeremy Cameron – 6 votes
Tom Scully – 5
Callan Ward – 4
Dylan Shiel, Lachie Whitfield – 1
OTHER NSW-RAISED PLAYERS BROWNLOW VOTES
Dustin Martin (formerly of the Campbelltown Blues) – Richmond – 16 votes
Luke Breust (Temora) – Hawthorn – 2
Lenny Hayes (Pennant Hills) – St Kilda – 2
Dean Terlich (Osborne) – Melbourne – 1