Max Gawn has admitted to being the AFL captain who voted for Melbourne's Bayley Fritsch to win the 2020 Coleman Medal.
All AFL captains were surveyed and asked to give their season predictions, with the caveat being you can’t vote for players from your own team.
Gawn says he broke the rule because, well, he wants to be right at the end of the season.
“It was me. I saw that question and I did see that we weren’t allowed to vote from our own team, but I’m not going to not vote for the Coleman Medallist winner,” Gawn told SEN’s Dwayne’s World.
“Throughout training this year he has done some things that are pretty spectacular who does it from very little impact in the actual game. He’ll have five touches, five marks, five goals.
“He’s kicked easily the most goals for us in this little pre-season bit and he does it on Steven May and then he does it on Neville Jetta so he’s a pretty exciting player.”
Gawn doubled down on rule breaking as the only captain who voted for Demons first-round draftee Luke Jackson for the NAB Rising Star.
“Did no one else go with Luke Jackson? Wow. Has no one been watching us in pre-season?” Gawn said.
“Jackson could play 18 positions on the ground this year. He is a very versatile player.”