{"id":827505,"date":"2026-07-27T18:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/827505\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:59:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:59:22","slug":"nick-daicos-breaks-dustin-martins-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/827505\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Daicos breaks Dustin Martin&#8217;s record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                News\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Nick Daicos has set a new league record.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                            By afl.com.au with collingwoodfc.com.au\n                            <\/p>\n<p>The Race for the AFL Coaches Association Champion Player of the Year is down to two, with one of Nick Daicos and Marcus Bontempelli set to claim the crown.<\/p>\n<p>Daicos is the raging favourite to add the AFLCA trophy to his resume after polling another 10 votes in Collingwood&#8217;s win over Adelaide on Thursday night to move to 125 votes for the year.<\/p>\n<p>That surpassed the previous record for most votes in a single season, set by Richmond great Dustin Martin with 122 in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The third-placed player, Fremantle ruck Luke Jackson, is 49 votes behind Daicos and cannot catch the duo.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Nick Daicos&#8217; 2026 averages speak to a career-best season, with the 23-year-old averaging 35.1 disposals, 10.4 contested possessions, 9.1 score involvements, and 1.2 goals per game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pies&#8217; Vice Captain has amassed 30+ disposals in 15 of his 18 games so far this season, three of which were 40+.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He scored a perfect 10 votes in Collingwood&#8217;s Round 20 clash against Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>Most coaches votes in a season:<br \/>1. Nick Daicos (125 votes) &#8211; 2026<br \/>2. Dustin Martin (122 votes) &#8211; 2017<br \/>3. Patrick Dangerfield (121 votes) &#8211; 2017<br \/>4. Patrick Dangerfield (118 votes) &#8211; 2017<br \/>5. Nick Daicos (117 votes) &#8211; 2024\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News Nick Daicos has set a new league record. By afl.com.au with collingwoodfc.com.au The Race for the AFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-827505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827505","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=827505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}