Starting to look the 'Goodes' - Round 16, 2010 Wrap - 3, 2, 1 Votes.

Adam Goodes has always been accused of being the umpire's 'love child' of seasons past when it comes to the Brownlow, but his overall form this year has been such that not even his most ardent knockers would say umpiring favouritism will help him this year.

But in the past month, as has been the case in the past couple of years, Goodes has had a complete reversal in form and is back to his scintillating best. Having struggled to obtain anything more than 23 possessions throughout the year, with minimal impact, in his past 3 matches he has averaged 24 possessions and kicked 6 goals (featuring one 33 possie, 11 marks, 3 goal game) . Much of this turnaround can be attributed to the fact that Roos has finally allowed him to run through the midfield - a position in which I believe he plays his best football.

A month ago I would have said he had little chance of maintaining his run of consecutively winning most votes at Sydney this year, but as of late i've since changed my tune. And what's scarier is he's slowly edging his way towards the top 5 on the leaderboard. But if he has any hope of catching the top echelon of players, what he needs to work in his favour is for Sydney to keep performing well in the last 6 rounds of the season, because at this stage in the count he could quite conceivably have a huge gap to bridge. 

Adelaide V Geelong:
3. B. Vince
2. J. Selwood
1. G. Johncock

Collingwood V St. Kilda:
3. D. Swan
2. A. Didak
1. L. Brown

Hawthorn V Brisbane:
3. S. Mitchell
2. L. Hodge
1. S. Burgoyne

Essendon V West Coast:
3. M. LeCras
2. M. Priddis
1. A. Hams

Western Bulldogs V Port Adelaide:
3. D. Cross
2. M. Boyd
1. J. Harbrow

Carlton V Sydney:
3. A. Goodes
2. S. Mumford
1. R. O’Keefe

Richmond V North Melbourne:
3. A. Swallow
2. L. Adams
1. D. Wells

Fremantle V Melbourne:
3. P. Duffield
2. H. Ballantyne
1. S. Hill

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Round 16 Leaderboard:
20 - L. Hodge
17 - D. Swan (+)
16 - C. Judd (-)
16 - J. Bartel
15 - L. Hayes
15 - G. Ablett
15 - M. Barlow
14 - M. Boyd (+)
12 – A. Goodes (+)
12 - S. Pendlebury
12 - A. Cooney
12 - L. Montagna
12 - A. Swallow (+)
11 – J. Selwood (+)
11 – P. Chapman
11 - A. Sandilands
11 - N. Dal Santo
11 - J. Watson
11 - B. Goddard
10 - B. Harvey

Note: (*) Ineligible. (+) Ranking Rise. (-) Ranking Drop.