Jack Ziebell’s career-high five goals has earned him nine votes in the AFLCA Champion Player of the Year Award.

The North captain tied Sydney’s Ben Ronke for the game-high number of votes, while midfielder Shaun Higgins’ red-hot form has continued, earning six votes.

Higgins now sits third on the overall leaderboard behind Melbourne’s Max Gawn and Blue Patrick Cripps, who polled ten and eight votes respectively.

North v Sydney votes

9 – Ben Ronke
9 – Jack Ziebell
6 – Shaun Higgins
4 – Isaac Heeney
1 – Jake Lloyd
1 – Aliir Aliir

North leaderboard

62  - Shaun Higgins
42 - Ben Cunnington
40 - Ben Brown
23 - Jarrad Waite
18 - Ben Jacobs

Overall leaderboard

71 - Max Gawn
68 - Patrick Cripps
62 – Shaun Higgins
59 – Nat Fyfe
58 – Tom Mitchell