{"id":603571,"date":"2026-04-13T06:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/603571\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T06:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:41:13","slug":"r5-coaches-votes-newcombe-polls-perfect-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/603571\/","title":{"rendered":"R5 COACHES\u2019 VOTES: Newcombe polls perfect 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Six Hawks polled coaches votes during Gather Round.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Hawthorn Co-Captain Jai Newcombe headlined six Hawks to poll coaches votes in the 40-point win over the Western Bulldogs in Round 5.<\/p>\n<p>Newcombe was instrumental through the Hawks midfield, earning himself a perfect 10 votes for his Gather Round performance.<\/p>\n<p>The skipper collected an equal game-high 28 disposals (19 contested), as well as a career and game-high 14 clearances, four tackles, and a goal.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Things you love to see: <br \/>Jai Newcombe kicking fourth quarter goals at Adelaide Oval \ud83d\ude0d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hawthorn FC (@HawthornFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawthornFC\/status\/2042933959093518824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack Ginnivan was next best in brown and gold with seven votes. Ginnivan finished with an equal game-high 28 disposals, a game-high 10 score involvements, including give goal assists and a goal of his own.<\/p>\n<p>Dynamic defender Josh Battle collected three votes for his 23 disposals, 13 marks, seven intercept possessions and four contested marks.<\/p>\n<p>Next was Blake Hardwick who polled two votes for his 25 disposals, 10 marks, seven intercept possessions and six tackles at Adelaide Oval.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Mitch Lewis also received one vote thanks to an equal game-high three goals, 10 marks, 18 disposals and seven score involvements.<\/p>\n<p>Every week, the two senior coaches for each game give votes on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis, meaning 10 votes is the maximum a player can get in each round.<\/p>\n<p>The player with the most votes at the end of the home and away season will win the\u00a0AFLCA Champion Player of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p>See below for all the Round 5 votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hawthorn v Western Bulldogs<\/p>\n<p>10 Jai Newcombe (HAW)<br \/>7 Jack Ginnivan (HAW)<br \/>6 Josh Battle (HAW)<br \/>3 Tom Barrass (HAW)<br \/>2 Blake Hardwick (HAW)<br \/>1 Mitch Lewis (HAW)<br \/>1 James O&#8217;Donnell (WB)<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six Hawks polled coaches votes during Gather Round. Hawthorn Co-Captain Jai Newcombe headlined six Hawks to poll coaches&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603572,"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-603571","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\/603571","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=603571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}