2007 AFL Army Award

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

For main article please see: AFL Army Award

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 & second 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 two 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. Archived 6 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
		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