2007 AFL Army Award

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The Australian Football League celebrates the best act of selflessness or one percenter of the season through the annual AFL Army Award competition.

Winners by Round

Legend

• Winner of round in BLUE

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.[1]
		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

• *Denotes current Round

See also

• AFL Army Award
• 2007 AFL Goal of the Year
• 2007 AFL Mark of the Year
• 2007 AFL Season

External links

• AFL Army Award