A SOLITARY vote in the player of the round standings will prove scant consolation for Launceston coach Scott Stephens as his 200th game was seized upon by cross-town rivals North.
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The reigning premiers won a one-sided Friday night affair at Aurora Stadium by 119 points as some talented Bombers used the occasion to advance their individual causes.
Ethan Petterwood and Taylor Whitford were "among some of the Bombers' long list of good players", according to The Examiner's reporter, Phil Edwards, and both took advantage of a rare absence from the votes by Burnie's Harry Walters.
Petterwood's best-on-ground performance gives him five votes for the season while Whitford is now on eight, just one behind Walters.
The biggest mover was Rhys Mott whose three votes in unbeaten Glenorchy's destruction of strugglers Clarence saw him draw level in the standings with Walters, whose Docker teammates Claye Hardy, Clint Proctor and Clint Riley hogged the votes.
Jay Blackberry picked up a rare vote for winless Western Storm as Devonport established an eight-point mid-table buffer with Brayden Butler and Brodie Deverell prominent.
Next week looms as a pivotal round for both ends of the ladder with second-placed North travelling to third-placed Burnie while Western Storm host Clarence with just one win between them.
