Tredrea top of the heap
04/10/2009 9:52 AM
Port Adelaide forward Warren Tredrea has won his fourth John Cahill Medal as the Power's best-and-fairest player for season 2009.
Tredrea won the 2009 medal after a cliffhanger vote count in front of 850 guests at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, finishing three votes ahead of dual best-and-fairest winner Kane Cornes.
Tredrea – who enjoyed an injury free season for the first time in years – won his previous three Power best-and-fairest awards in 2001, 2004 and 2005.
Recently re-signed, Tredrea will play his 250th match for the club next season, the first player to do so for the Power in the AFL. He led the club's goalkicking this year with 51 goals, the eighth time he has led the club in that category, but the first time since 2005.
It is the sixth successive year Kane Cornes has finished in the top three in the club's best-and-fairest count, including wins in 2007 and 2008, an outstanding achievement.
Defender Troy Chaplin finished third in this year's count, closely followed by Jacob Surjan and Robbie Gray (equal fourth). Travis Boak finished sixth, just ahead of skipper Dom Cassisi, with Alipate Carlile, Danyle Pearce and David Rodan rounding out the top 10.