Gavin Brown Medal Winner congrats Swanny!

[David]

By the way, if Swan wins this it will be his sixth victory in eight years.

Pendlebury is still yet to ever win one.

[Cuthbert Collingwood]

Round 20 vs Sydney WIN 100-71

5 Pendles
4 Swan
3 Ball
2 J.Thomas
1 Grundy

Round 21 vs Hawthorn LOSS 84-119

5 Swan
4 Grundy
3 Pendles
2 Beams
1 Ball

Round 22 vs WCE WIN 101-39

5 J.Thomas
4 Swan
3 Pendles
2 Williams
1 Brown

Leaderboard at Round 22

Swan - 53
Pendles - 51
Cloke - 24
O'Brien - 22
Sidey - 22
Dwyer - 19
Ball - 16
Williams - 14
Shaw - 12
Seedsman - 10
Beams - 9
Lynch - 8.5
J.Thomas - 8
Reid - 8
Elliott - 6.5
Hudson - 6
Grundy - 5
Thomas - 4
Brown - 3
Macaffer - 3
Sinclair - 3
Jolly - 3
Blair - 2
Krakouer - 2
Toovey - 1

[think better]

Impressive by Grundy - votes in 2 of his first 3 games

[David]

Swan finally hits the front in round 21 after trailing Pendlebury by as many as 15 votes earlier in the season. Can he hold on? Who played respectably in our last two games?

[Pies4shaw]

Well, Swan got the "best finals player" award at the Copeland, so there's a bit of a hint.

[mikeyd]

pendles was by far best on ground in round 23

[woftam]

[swoop42]

So our top 5 is the same (different order) as the Copeland is it not?

Pretty impressive for a bunch of nuffies.

[Cuthbert Collingwood]

Pendles takes the lead!!! But surely Swan will poll well against Port!!!!

Round 23 vs North LOSS 114-125

5 Pendles
4 Reid
3 Cloke
2 Didak
1 Williams

Pendles 56
Swan 53

[mikeyd]

possible tie!!!

[Captain_MyCaptain]

Pendles by a bees whisker.

[David]

Some people are suggestion Swanny will get the 5 votes against Port. If he does, Pendles will need 2 votes to tie it and 3 or more to win outright. Of course, there's also the possibility that Marley Williams or someone else could steal the 5.

We await the final tally with bated breath, Cuthbert old chap.

(I'm going for Dane)

[Neil Appleby]

Swanny will get 5; he starred in the final. I just checked my score book and I didn't have Pendles in my top 8 for the game. Swanny was my pick followed by Williams.
Think Swanny might be getting his 6th Gavin Brown.

[Cuthbert Collingwood]

and the winner is.....

Elimination Final vs Port LOSS 63-87

5 Swan
4 Williams
3 Beams
2 Macaffer
1 Sidey

Congrats Dane Swan! Nick's favourite footballer (though you wouldn't have thunk it at certain stages of the year)

Final Tally

Swan - 58
Pendles - 56
Cloke - 27
Sidey - 23
O'Brien - 22
Dwyer - 19
Williams - 19
Ball - 16
Shaw - 12
Reid - 12
Beams - 12
Seedsman - 10
Lynch - 8.5
J.Thomas - 8
Elliott - 6.5
Hudson - 6
Grundy - 5
Macaffer - 5
Thomas - 4
Brown - 3
Sinclair - 3
Jolly - 3
Blair - 2
Krakouer - 2
Didak - 2
Toovey - 1

[David]

Congrats Swanny.

2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and now 2013. Remarkable.

Hard to think of any players who have won a medal of great importance (and there are none more important than the Gavin Brown Medal!) outright that many times.

(I say outright because one of Nathan Buckley's Copelands was shared...)