It proved all too difficult for the coaches to pluck a single Swan out of a cast of dominate Hawks on Saturday night and award them with votes as part of this year’s AFL Coaches Association Champion Player of the Year Award.
Cyril Rioli, for his 20 possessions and three goal performance, was given nine votes as best afield in the Hawks’ 89-point win at ANZ Stadium.
In favour of the likes of Jack Gunston (six votes) and Jarryd Roughead (five votes), Swans midfielders Dan Hannebery and Josh Kennedy were overlooked despite collecting 32 and 30 disposals respectively.
Hannebery remains 25 votes behind overall leader Nat Fyfe who failed to poll in Fremantle’s win over Carlton, something of a rare occurrence in 2015.
Kennedy (49 votes) is also hanging on inside the top 10 as the Swans next best chance to take out this year’s prestigious award.
Check out who else rounded out the vote getters from Round 16 and the overall leaderboard below.
Round 16 – Sydney vs Hawthorn
9 Cyril Rioli (Hawthorn)
6 Jack Gunston (Hawthorn)
5 Jarryd Roughead (Hawthorn)
4 Grant Birchall (Hawthorn)
2 Luke Breust (Hawthorn)
2 Luke Hodge (Hawthorn)
1 Brian Lake (Hawthorn)
1 Sam Mitchell (Hawthorn)
Overall Leaderboard
100 Nat Fyfe (Fremantle)
75 Dan Hannebery (Sydney)
62 Todd Goldstein (North Melbourne)
59 Andrew Gaff (West Coast)
55 Scott Pendlebury (Collingwood)
53 David Armitage (St Kilda)
50 Dayne Beams (Brisbane)
50 Matt Priddis (West Coast)
49 Trent Cotchin (Richmond)
Josh Kennedy (Sydney)
