The ultimate individual accolade in Australian rules football, the Brownlow Medal annually recognises the AFL's best and fairest player, with it's honour roll of past recipients littered with legends of the game. Amongst those names are 10 Western Bulldogs.

Since the award's inception in 1924, the Bulldogs along with Sydney (14 medallists) and St Kilda (10 medallist) are one of only three Clubs whose players collectively have won the individual award on 10 or more occasions. 

Four current clubs (Greater Western Sydney, Port Adelaide, Fremantle and Gold Coast) have never won the award.

With annual awards ceremony scheduled for next Monday at Crown Palladium, Ryan Griffen is the most highly fancied Bulldog amongst pundits to add to the Club's trophy cabinet, however Gary Ablett Jnr (Gold Coast) and Joel Selwood (Geelong) have been instilled into favouritism. 

Adam Cooney  is the Club's most recent player to take 'Charlie' home, claiming the prestigious award in 2008 by just the solitary vote from Brisbane's Simon Black.

On that occasion, Cooney polled 24 to Black's 23 votes, with 2009 winner Gary Ablett Jnr a further vote back in a tie for third with Tigers' forward Matthew Richardson.

Cooney sits alongside Scott Wynd (1992), Tony Liberatore (1990), Brad Hardie (1985), Kelvin Templeton (1980), Gary Dempsey (1975), John Schultz (1960), Peter Box (1956), Norman Ware (1941) and Allan Hopkins (1930) who have all taken the honours as the fairest and best player in the league, while wearing Bulldogs colours.

Of the currently crop of Bulldogs players, captain Matthew Boyd who has been the most prolific in polling Brownlow votes in recent years.

Boyd has accumulated 86 Brownlow votes across his career, ranked 15th on the Bulldogs all-time list for votes accrued over a career.

Last year Griffen (11) who pipped Boyd (10) to the post by one vote as the best polling Dog, while now-Hawk Brian Lake (seven), Robert Murphy (five), Luke Dahlhaus (four) and Adam Cooney (three) also polled.