Gold Coast appear set to become just the second AFL club to claim the Brownlow Medal and Rising Star Award in the same season.
Skipper Gary Ablett polled a certain three votes as he led Gold Coast to victory over Collingwood last weekend.
The 29-year-old former Geelong star is averaging 33 disposals per game and gathered an amazing 49 touches against the Magpies at Metricon Stadium.
Ablett is listed as a $1.50 favourite by leading sports bookmakers with no other player at single-figure odds to claim the 2013 Brownlow Medal for the competition’s best-and-fairest player.
Gold Coast also have the favourite – 19-year-old Jaeger O’Meara – for the Rising Star Award.
Since the Rising Star Award was introduced in 1993, the only time the same club has won the Brownlow and the Rising Star was in 2007 when Geelong’s Jimmy Bartel and Joel Selwood were victorious.
Ablett played in Geelong’s premiership sides of 2007 and 2009 before becoming Gold Coast’s first skipper in 2011.
A Brownlow Medallist in 2009, Ablett is favoured to win the award a second time and also gain All-Australian honours for the seventh consecutive season.
The Coleman Medal for the league’s leading goalkicker is an interesting battle, with bookies struggling to separate West Coast’s Josh Kennedy (51 goals) and Hawthorn’s Jarryd Roughead (50) with six rounds remaining.