Buckley and Whateley's quarter-by-quarter 2025 Norm Smith Medal votes

• AFL Trade news live - Monday 29.09

Nathan Buckley and Gerard Whateley have handed out Norm Smith Medal votes on a 3-2-1 quarter-by-quarter basis from the 2025 AFL Grand Final .

Brisbane midfielder Will Ashcroft took home the medal for his starring 32-disposal, one-goal, 10-score involvement performance and received 13 votes out of a possible 15 from the five-person Norm Smith panel on the day.

While Ashcroft was a clear winner with the voters ahead of Harris Andrews (6) and Zac Bailey (5), Buckley and Whateley divided their votes rather differently within their quarter-by-quarter analysis on SEN's Whateley.

Check out their comments and votes for each quarter below.

Q1 – Geelong 2.3 (15) v Brisbane 1.6 (12)

Buckley’s votes

3 – Max Holmes (GEE)
2 – Zac Bailey (BRI)
1 – Will Ashcroft (BRI)

Whateley’s votes

3 – Ollie Dempsey (GEE)
2 – Will Ashcroft (BRI)
1 – Zac Bailey (BRI)

Q2 – Geelong 3.3 (21) v Brisbane 4.0 (24)

HT score: Geelong (36) v (36) Brisbane

Buckley's votes

3 – Jaspa Fletcher (BRI)
2 – Dayne Zorko (BRI)
1 – Zac Bailey (BRI)

Whateley’s votes

3 – Dayne Zorko (BRI)
2 – Will Ashcroft (BRI)
1 – Harris Andrews (BRI)

Q3 – Geelong 1.2 (8) v Brisbane 4.3 (27)

3QT score: Geelong (44) v (65) Brisbane

Buckley’s votes

3 – Harris Andrews (BRI)
2 – Jaspa Fletcher (BRI)
1 – Dayne Zorko (BRI)

Whateley’s votes

3 – Charlie Cameron (BRI)
2 – Harris Andrews (BRI)
1 – Dayne Zorko (BRI)

Q4 – Geelong 5.1 (31) v Brisbane 9.5 (59)

Full-time score: Geelong (75) v (122) Brisbane

Buckley’s votes

3 – Hugh McCluggage (BRI)
2 – Lachie Neale (BRI)
1 – Will Ashcroft (BRI)

Whateley’s votes

3 – Hugh McCluggage (BRI)
2 – Lachie Neale (BRI)
1 – Cam Rayner (BRI)

Buckley’s top five:

5 – Jaspa Fletcher (BRI)
3 - Zac Bailey (BRI)
3 - Hugh McCluggage (BRI)
3 - Dayne Zorko (BRI)
3 – Harris Andrews (BRI)
3 - Max Holmes (GEE)
2 – Will Ashcroft (BRI)
2 – Lachie Neale (BRI)

Whateley’s top five:

4 – Dayne Zorko (BRI)
4 - Will Ashcroft (BRI)
3 - Hugh McCluggage (BRI)
3 – Harris Andrews (BRI)
3 – Charlie Cameron (BRI)
3 - Ollie Dempsey (GEE)
2 – Zac Bailey (BRI)
2 – Lachie Neale (BRI)
1 – Cam Rayner (BRI)

Total top five:

1. Dayne Zorko (BRI) - 7 votes

=2. Will Ashcroft (BRI) - 6 votes

=2. Hugh McCluggage (BRI) - 6 votes

=2. Harris Andrews (BRI) - 6 votes

=4. Zac Bailey (BRI) - 5 votes

=4. Jaspa Fletcher (BRI) - 5 votes