Brisbane Lions Vice-Captain Tom Rockliff received a Club-high 15 votes at Monday night’s 2014 Brownlow Medal count in Melbourne, although was ineligible to win the game’s prestigious award due to suspension.

It was the second consecutive year that Rockliff has topped the Club’s votes on AFL’s ‘night of nights’ (he polled a career-best 21 votes to finish equal fifth in 2013) and was the second highest tally of any Lions player since 2009.

It capped off a stellar season for the 24-year-old, who has already claimed a second Merrett-Murray Medal and been named in the AFL All-Australian side for the first time during the off-season.  

Rockliff’s 15 votes took him to a career tally of 53 – clearly the most of any current Lions player.

He also moved into 16^th on the Club’s all-time list of Brownlow vote-getters (Fitzroy and Bears included), overtaking the likes of Alastair Lynch (43 votes), Richard Osborne (44), 1936 Brownlow Medallist Denis ‘Dinny’ Ryan (48), Fred Hughson (50), and Ron Alexander (51) in the process.

Pearce Hanley polled the most votes of the eligible Lions players with a career-best nine – bettering his eight-vote effort from 2013.

It gives Hanley also a career total of 21 Brownlow votes, which places him equal second at the Club with Daniel Rich.

Dayne Zorko was next with eight votes – also a career-best – while Jack Redden polled votes for the fourth consecutive season, finishing with five.

Stefan Martin and Rohan Bewick rounded out the Lions vote-getters, with both players hearing their names for the first time on Brownlow night.

Martin had to wait until his 68^th AFL match (against West Coast in Round 17) to secure the first votes of his career, and followed that up with a maximum three-vote performance against his former side Melbourne in Round 19.

Bewick, meanwhile, polled his first and only career vote in Round 19 against Melbourne, but was probably unlucky to have missed out on more following a 30-disposal effort against the Western Bulldogs in Round 12.

The Lions were represented at the 2014 Brownlow Medal by Jed Adcock (with wife Hayley), Stefan Martin (with girlfriend Madeline), Dayne Zorko (with girlfriend Kalinda Salla), Lewy Taylor (with father Simon), Joel Patfull, and Brent Moloney.

View the full tally of Lions votes