Cox-Goodyer polled 27 votes to edge past Clarence ruckman Sam Siggins by four votes to be presented with Tasmania’s highest playing honour in front of Bombers supporters at the Country Club Tasmania.

Siggins, the No.64 pick for the Adelaide Crows in the 2012 AFL draft before he returned to Hobart after battling depression, started out an early leader in the TSL best-and-fairest count.

But the year’s 24-year-old winner, who booted 35 goals at the Northern Bombers, came home strongly on the back of seven best-on-ground performances. 

The incumbent and also three-time Lynch medallist, Glenorchy’s Jaye Bowden, and Hobart City prime ball-mover, Ryan Matthews, would share third place with 17 votes.

North Launceston playing coach Tom Couch earned 13 votes in his first TSL season to finish outright seventh.

Many expected the son of 1989 Brownlow Medallist Paul Couch to claim Friday night’s medal after finishing the TSL player-of-the-year media award three votes behind Bowden while three ahead of Cox-Goodyer.

Promising Launceston rover Brodie Palfreyman was his club’s best vote-getter on 12 votes in just his second year at Windsor Park. 

Blues teammate Sam Rundle was a further two votes behind Palfreyman, sitting just outside the top 10.

But Cox-Goodyer’s rousing win proved to be not only the toast of the night, but the season as a whole.

He had already been awarded the Darrell Baldock Medal two weeks earlier for a undisputed best-on-ground game on grand final day.

A season-high eight goals from Cox-Goodyer helped set up North Launceston’s huge 87-point premiership victory over Lauderdale at UTAS Stadium.

Cox-Goodyer is now his club’s second-ever Lynch Medallist in its eight years following retired Bomber Daniel Roozendaal in 2014.