Briedis was considered best on ground by the football writers from The Age, who used a Brownlow voting system to judge their best player, tallying eight out of a possible nine votes; he had managed to put the previous week's troubles behind him (he registered seven behinds from ten scoring shots), by kicking five goals (the second time he had done so in a Grand Final for the Kangaroos) and contributing to many more with 30 disposals (19 kicks and 11 handpasses) and nine marks. Malcolm Blight was voted Player of the Match by the panel of football writers from the Sun News-Pictorial, who also used a Brownlow voting system.
