| Round |
Report |
Nominees |
Team |
% of Votes |
Match |
Note |
| 1 |
Nominations |
Domenic Cassisi |
Port Adelaide |
10% |
Fremantle vs Port Adelaide |
Smother to save the game |
| Nathan Bassett |
Adelaide |
21% |
Adelaide vs Essendon |
Tackle and smother |
| Daniel Kerr |
West Coast |
69% |
Sydney Swans vs West Coast Eagles |
Tackle on Jarrad McVeigh in last minute as he was about to kick for goal with the Eagles 1 point up. |
| 2 |
Nominations |
Brett Kirk |
Sydney |
43% |
Richmond vs Sydney |
Desperate attack on the ball to win a free kick. |
| Michael Firrito |
Port Adelaide |
28% |
Port Adelaide vs Kangaroos |
3rd quarter goal saving tackle. |
| Jed Adcock |
Brisbane |
29% |
Brisbane vs St. Kilda |
Good defensive spoil. |
| 3 |
Nominations
Winner |
Chad Cornes |
Port Adelaide |
21% |
Port Adelaide vs Adelaide |
Handballing off a ball he won in a smother. |
| Brendan Fevola |
Carlton |
45% |
Carlton vs Essendon |
Chase by the full-forward to spoil the disposal of Andrew Lovett. |
| David Rodan |
Port Adelaide |
34% |
Port Adelaide vs Adelaide |
Last quarter diving smother. |
| 4 |
Nominations |
Lindsay Gilbee |
Western Bulldogs |
12% |
Ruchmond vs Western Bulldogs |
2nd Quarter Diving Smother |
| Chad Cornes |
Port Adelaide |
40% |
Collingwood vs Port Adelaide |
Last quarter lunging tackle. |
| Alwyn Davey |
Essendon |
48% |
St. Kilda vs Essendon |
Chase and tackle by the speedster resulting in a Matthew Lloyd goal. |
| 5 |
Nominations
Winner |
Richard Tambling |
Richmond |
28% |
Richmond vs West Coast |
Diving smother in his defensive 50. |
| Jordan Lewis |
Hawthorn |
32% |
Hawthorn vs Western Bulldogs |
1st Quarter diving spoil & 2nd effort |
| Robert Shirley |
Adelaide |
40% |
Fremantle vs Adelaide |
Spoil of ball deep in defence late in an extremely close game. |
| 6 |
Nominations Winner |
Shane Crawford |
Hawthorn |
18% |
Essendon vs Hawthorn |
Chase and tacle on Brent Stanton. |
| Glenn Archer |
Kangaroos |
16% |
Kangaroos vs Sydney Swans |
3rd Quarter diving spoil. |
| Alwyn Davey |
Essendon |
66% |
Essendon vs Hawthorn |
Diving smother followed by 2 other efforts. |
| 7 |
Nominations |
Chad Cornes |
Port Adelaide |
37% |
Port Adelaide vs Richmond |
Defensive desperation preventing Matthew Richardson scoring a goal for Richmond. |
| Joel Bowden |
Richmond |
35% |
Port Adelaide vs Richmond |
Spoil whilst moving backward with the flight of the ball. |
| Chris Tarrant |
Fremantle |
28% |
Fremantle vs Hawthorn |
Good chase & tackle by the Fremantle forward. |
| 8 |
Nominations
Winner |
Alwyn Davey |
Essendon |
58% |
Essendon vs Brisbane |
Brilliant chase & tackle on Cheynee Stiller. |
| Daniel Pratt |
Kangaroos |
27% |
Kangaroos vs Carlton |
Gutsy attempt to spoil & recovery of the ball to dispose of it to a teammate. |
| Brian Harris |
Western Bulldogs |
15% |
Western Bulldogs vs Collingwood |
Great run, spoil and handball. |
| 9 |
Winner |
Chance Bateman |
Hawthorn |
20% |
Hawthorn vs West Coast Eagles |
Good smother. |
| James Hird |
Essendon |
55% |
Richmond vs Essendon |
Tackle on the 2nd effort produced a goal from point blank range in an extremely close finish. |
| Josh Gibson |
Kangaroos |
25% |
Melbourne vs Kangaroos |
Goal saving tackle near the end of a game that resulted in a 1 point win. |
| 10 |
Nominations |
Daniel Chick |
West Coast Eagles |
57% |
West Coast Eagles vc Kangaroos |
Two of 4 last quarter strong tackles. |
| Jed Adcock |
Brisbane Lions |
23% |
Richmond vs Brisbane Lions |
Gutsy defensive spoil on Matthew Richardson in a drawn game. |
| Rhan Hooper |
Brisbane Lions |
20% |
Richmond vs Brisbane Lions |
Chased down and tackled Matthew White in a drawn game. |
| 11 |
Nominations |
Danny Stanley |
Collingwood |
47% |
Melbourne vs Collingwood |
Rushing a behind in difficult situation in a tight game. |
| Dustin Fletcher |
Essendon |
36% |
Essendon vs West Coast Eagles |
Spoil of ball over boundary in last 10 seconds of game deep in defence whilst leading by 1 point. |
| James Gwilt |
St Kilda |
17% |
St Kilda vs Kangaroos |
Goal saving tackle. |
| 12 |
Nominations |
Steven Dodd |
Fremantle |
44% |
Western Bulldogs vs Fremantle |
Chased down Brad Johnson over a long distance. Unfortunately for him Johnson got a handball away and then Dodd accidentally kicked the ball out of bounds on the full. |
| Travis Cloke |
Collingwood |
25% |
Sydney Swans vs Collingwood |
Spoilt a kick in and then followed up with a good tackle. |
| Alan Didak |
Collingwood |
31% |
Sydney Swans vs Collingwood |
Two desperate tackles by Didak on Sydney's Ryan O'Keefe. |
| 13 |
Nominations |
|
Essendon |
|
Melbourne vs Essendon |
Chase and tackle as part of a second effort. |
| Glenn Archer |
Kangaroos |
44% |
Kangaroos vs Western Bulldogs |
Made a contest in a tough situation and made a 2nd effort in his 300th game. |
| Paul Medhurst |
Collingwood |
|
Collingwood vs Hawthorn |
Diving tackle after long chase. |
| 14* |
Nominations |
Matthew Egan |
Geelong |
44% |
Essendon vs Geelong |
Goal-saving diving smother against Essendon |
| Steven Baker |
St Kilda |
22% |
Collingwood vs St Kilda |
Great smother and second effort |
| Nick Maxwell |
Collingwood |
34% |
Collingwood vs St Kilda |
Gutsy spoil moving back with the flight of the ball |