\n Let’s check in on our AFLW player of the season after round six\n <\/p>\n
Ash Riddell during the AFLW R3 match between North Melbourne and Walyalup (Fremantle) at Fremantle Community Bank Oval on August 31, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
SOMEHOW, Ash Riddell continues to be underrated among her star-studded side of North Melbourne.<\/p>\n
But that might be about to change.<\/p>\n
Fresh off the back of breaking the record for most disposals in an AFLW game with 44 (previously held jointly by herself and Brisbane’s Ally Anderson), Riddell has raced to a massive five-vote lead in\u00a0AFL.com.au’s best AFLW player vote count.<\/p>\n
At the conclusion of each AFLW match, the reporter assigned to the game submits their votes for the best players on the field, selecting on a 3-2-1 basis.<\/p>\n
After six rounds, Riddell already outpaced the rest of the pack, much like she does on the field with her incredible running capacity.<\/p>\n
Last year’s AFLW best and fairest winner Ebony Marinoff is sitting in second, five votes adrift of first, with a pair of Melbourne stars \u2013 Tyla Hanks and Kate Hore \u2013 occupying third spot on the podium.<\/p>\n
Kate Hore celebrates a goal during the AFLW R6 match between Melbourne and West Coast at Casey Fields on September 21, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
Kangaroos players have polled an incredible 35 of a possible 36 votes in the first half of the season.<\/p>\n
Unsurprisingly, midfielders occupy top spot at most clubs, with the exception of Port Adelaide ruck Matilda Scholz and Sydney superstar forward Chloe Molloy.<\/p>\n
AFL.com.au\u00a0best AFLW player votes<\/p>\n
17 votes \u2013 Ash Riddell (North Melbourne)
12 votes \u2013 Ebony Marinoff (Adelaide)
10 votes \u2013 Tyla Hanks (Melbourne)
10 votes \u2013 Kate Hore (Melbourne)
10 votes \u2013 Ella Roberts (West Coast)
9 votes \u2013 Georgie Prespakis (Geelong)
9 votes \u2013 Eliza West (Hawthorn)
9 votes \u2013 Jasmine Garner (North Melbourne)<\/p>\n
Your club’s leading votegetter<\/p>\n
Adelaide \u2013 Ebony Marinoff (17 votes)
Brisbane \u2013 Ally Anderson (six)
Carlton \u2013 Dayna Finn, Mimi Hill (seven)
Collingwood \u2013 Brit Bonnici (seven)
Essendon \u2013 Georgia Nanscawen (seven)
Fremantle \u2013 Kiara Bowers, Aisling McCarthy (five)
Geelong \u2013 Georgie Prespakis (nine)
Gold Coast \u2013 Niamh McLaughlin (three)
GWS \u2013 Zarlie Goldsworthy (seven)
Hawthorn \u2013 Eliza West (nine)
Melbourne \u2013 Tyla Hanks, Kate Hore (10)
North Melbourne \u2013 Ash Riddell (17)
Port Adelaide \u2013 Matilda Scholz (five)
Richmond \u2013 Monique Conti (five)
St Kilda \u2013 Tyanna Smith (six)
Sydney \u2013 Chloe Molloy (eight)
West Coast \u2013 Ella Roberts (10)
Western Bulldogs \u2013 Isabelle Pritchard (five)<\/p>\n
Club-by-club tally, maximum 36 votes on offer<\/p>\n
North Melbourne \u2013 35
Melbourne \u2013 31
Hawthorn \u2013 24
Adelaide \u2013 23
Sydney \u2013 23
Carlton \u2013 22
St Kilda \u2013 21
Geelong \u2013 20
West Coast \u2013 17
Fremantle \u2013 16
GWS \u2013 15
Brisbane \u2013 14\u00a0
Essendon \u2013 14
Port Adelaide \u2013 13
Collingwood \u2013 12
Richmond \u2013 nine
Gold Coast \u2013 eight
Western Bulldogs \u2013 seven<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let’s check in on our AFLW player of the season after round six Ash Riddell during the AFLW…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-160382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}