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Buckley and Whateley's quarter-by-quarter 2025 Norm Smith Medal votes
SEN • September 29th, 2025 6:30 pm
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:
- 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
