Travis Boak dominated the Brownlow Medal count for Port Adelaide again last night.

TRAVIS BOAK has led Port Adelaide’s Brownlow Medal votes for a record sixth season and extended his lead at the top of the club’s most votes of all time.

Boak finished with 21 votes in Sunday night’s count, the equal highest number of votes the midfielder has received in a season, equal with his tally in 2014.

It saw him place second in the count – the club’s highest finish along with the same placing Josh Francou had in 2002 when he was runner up to Brisbane’s Simon Black.

Brayden Lyle received the club’s first Brownlow votes 23 years ago.

Then vice-captain Lyle received three votes for his 35 disposals and goal in a 33-point loss to Essendon in Round 2, 1997.

Lyle had returned to his boyhood club Port Adelaide after initially being drafted by West Coast.

After five Brownlow votes in 26 games with the Eagles, he added another 15 votes in 90 games for the Power.

Lyle’s three votes in round 2, 1997, were the first of the Port Adelaide Football Club’s now 1626 Brownlow votes.

In 2017, Travis Boak became the first player to top 100 Brownlow votes for the club, and after Sunday’s effort he leads all comers with 139 career votes from 283 AFL games.

MOST VOTES ALL-TIME

Votes

Player

139

Travis Boak

96

Robbie Gray

80

Warren Tredrea

71

Ollie Wines

67

Josh Francou

62

Kane Cornes

56

Brad Ebert

56

Gavin Wanganeen

54

Peter Burgoyne

53

Brendon Lade


Boak also holds the record of having led Port Adelaide’s yearly vote figure on six occasions, ahead of Francou.

Others to lead the votes in multiple years include Gavin Wanganeen, who led the Power’s count on three occasions, and twice leaders Shaun Burgoyne, former captain Warren Tredrea and current stars Robbie Gray and Ollie Wines.

LEADING VOTE-GETTER - YEAR BY YEAR

Year

Leading Vote-Getter/s

Votes

1997

Gavin Wanganeen

11

1998

Josh Francou

7

1999

Gavin Wanganeen (2)

11

2000

Josh Francou (2)

8

2001

Josh Francou (3)

19

2002

Josh Francou (4)

21

2003

Gavin Wanganeen (3)

21

2004

Chad Cornes

22

2005

Warren Tredrea

11

2006

Shaun Burgoyne & Brendon Lade

15

2007

Shaun Burgoyne (2)

16

2008

Daniel Motlop

10

2009

David Rodan & Warren Tredrea (2)

7

2010

Travis Boak

16

2011

Robbie Gray

6

2012

Brad Ebert

9

2013

Travis Boak (2)

13

2014

Travis Boak (3)

21

2015

Travis Boak (4)

16

2016

Robbie Gray (2)

19

2017

Ollie Wines

18

2018

Ollie Wines (2)

14

2019

Travis Boak (5)

16

2020

Travis Boak (6)

21


While Boak joins Francou as the player with the highest finish on a Brownlow Medal leaderboard, Wanganeen came closest to winning, polling 21 votes to finish equal fourth - one vote behind a three-way tie for the winner involving Adelaide’s Mark Ricciuto, Collingwood’s Nathan Buckley and Sydney’s Adam Goodes.

Boak has polled three votes in 24 games, taking him clear of Robbie Gray and Tredrea who have each polled three votes in 16 games.

BEST FINISHES

Finish

Player/s

Year

2nd

Josh Francou / Travis Boak

2002 / 2020

3rd

Chad Cornes

2004

T3rd

Josh Francou *

2000

T4th

Gavin Wanganeen

2003

T5th

Travis Boak

2014

T6th

Shaun Burgoyne & Brendon Lade

2006

9th

Ollie Wines

2017

T9th

Travis Boak

2010

T10th

Robbie Gray

2016

T11th

Shaun Burgoyne *

2007

* denotes ineligible players