Who were the six best players in Round 4?
Kane Cornes assessed each game and come up with his top six performers.
Read his thoughts below:
Connor Rozee (Port Adelaide)
“My man Connor Rozee, hard to go past his performance so he gets a gig.”
Tom Liberatore (Western Bulldogs)
“Libba’s midfield game was about as good a midfield performance as you could ever see.
“It is easy to look over the course of someone’s career and go ‘he should have been All-Australian’. But you’ve got to be in the best six midfielders that year. He was incredibly close last year.
“What I want to focus on is his performance because I was in awe of what he was doing. When the game needed it, he was the one.
“It’s not often that Marcus Bontempelli is overshadowed, he was excellent as well, but Libba’s performance was extraordinary.”
Steven May (Melbourne)
“I think that is one of the more courageous performances I’ve ever seen.
“His ribs are smashed up. If you get a bruised rib, let alone a smashed up rib, they linger and linger. If you get knocked on it again it’s one of the most painful things you can have.
“You can’t sleep, you can’t sneeze, you can’t cough and he’s gone out there and taken care of an All-Australian forward in Taylor Walker. Not only that he’s had an offensive influence himself.
“He looked really sore and I thought his performance was nothing short of extraordinary and courageous.”
Christian Petracca (Melbourne)
“He’s gone to a new level. What I love about him now is his ability to work from contest to contest.
“He just looks so fit. It’s no surprise with the work he does in the off-season.
“He’s a full-on professional, I’d love to play with him. He was enormous and he’ll be right up there in the Brownlow.”
Shai Bolton (Richmond)
“He was just absolutely brilliant.
“It’s a tough ground to play on and everything he touched turned to gold.
“It hasn’t quite come together for him this year, he’s been really wasteful with his ball use and he’s squandered a few opportunities in front of goal, but not yesterday.
“He was a freak.”
Jeremy Cameron (Geelong)
“If he didn’t play, there’s no way Geelong wins.
“He was the one that was still full of running the last quarter. I’m not sure the Bulldogs knew exactly what to do with that role on the wing.
“He could have had a bigger night.”
Honourable mentions: “Toby Greene was stiff to miss, so was Isaac Heeney, Joe Daniher, Jacob Weitering and Alex Pearce.”
