Midfield trio Marcus Bontempelli, Tom Liberatore and Jack Macrae are the Club’s nominees for the AFLPA Most Valuable Player award.

The MVP Award – the Leigh Matthews Trophy – is a player-voted honour, which recognises the players’ player for the season.

It is back-to-back nominations for both Bontempelli and Macrae, with both also featuring in every match this season.

Bontempelli averaged 27.2 disposals, 5.5 clearances and 6.6 inside 50s, while Macrae registered an average of 33.3 possessions, 4.2 marks and 6.8 clearances.

Macrae also produced a run of 15 consecutive matches with at least 30 touches.

Liberatore averaged 23.8 disposals, 5.3 tackles and 7.8 clearances from his 21 appearances, finishing equal-second in the league for total clearances (164).

Bontempelli will also be in the running for Best Captain, while defender Taylor Duryea and utility Anthony Scott have been put forward for the Most Courageous and Best First Year Player awards respectively.

All winners will be announced on Thursday 2 September.

The nomination for the MVP Award is a two-stage process. The first involves players nominating three teammates for the award, before three nominees from every club are presented to the wider playing group for a vote to decide the winner. Players cannot vote for their own teammates in stage two of the process.