Ollie Wines now sits fourth on the AFLCA Champion Player of the Year leaderboard.

PORT ADELAIDE midfielder Ollie Wines was deemed by the coaches to be the best player on the ground in Saturday night’s win over St Kilda.

It’s the second week in a row that Wines has polled the highest votes in a game, this week earning ten in the 2021 AFLCA CHAMPION PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD.

The Port vice-captain shone on ANZAC Day, claiming a game-high 36 disposals to go with seven marks, five tackles and eight clearances to see him awarded the Peter Badcoe VC Medal as the player who best displayed the ANZAC spirit and qualities.

Wines was heavily involved in the action also having six score involvements, seven inside 50s and 328 metres gained.

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Midfielder Karl Amon and captain Tom Jonas each polled six votes.

Amon had 26 disposals to the main break and finished with a career-high 34, a career-high 15 marks and eight pressure acts. He also had a game-high 555 metres gained

Jonas had a season-high 26 disposals and a career-high seven intercept marks, proving a foil time and time again for repeated St Kilda attacks.

Orazio Fantasia’s three-goal effort earned him four votes while teammates Ryan Burton (three votes) and Steven Motlop (one vote) also polled.

Eight players across the competition scored the perfect 10 votes including Wines, Darcy Parish from Essendon, Hawthorn’s Jaeger O’Meara, Fremantle’s David Mundy, Christian Salem from Melborune, Brisbane’s Hugh McCluggage, Gold Coast’s Touk Miller and Geelong’s Mitch Duncan.

Wines is now ranked fourth, having closed to within seven votes of Mundy, who is the new overall leader in the award.

Round 6 – votes v St Kilda

10 votes – Wines (PA)

6 votes – Amon (PA), Jonas (PA)

4 votes – Fantasia (PA)

3 votes – Burton (PA)   

1 vote – Motlop (PA)

Overall leader board

38 votes – David Mundy (Fremantle)

34 votes – Max Gawn (Melbourne)

33 votes – Jack Macrae (Western Bulldogs)

31 votes – Ollie Wines (Port Adelaide)

28 votes – Taylor Walker (Adelaide), Christian Salem (Melbourne)

26 votes - Clayton Oliver (Melbourne),

25 votes – Hugh McCluggage (Brisbane), Christian Petracca (Melbourne)

24 votes – Jaeger O’Meara (Hawthorn)

23 votes – Toby Greene (GWS), Dustin Martin (Richmond)

22 votes – Marcus Bontempelli (Western Bulldogs), Adam Treloar (Western Bulldogs)