A superb midfield performance from Patrick Dangerfield caught the eye of the coaches, with the Cats captain earning nine votes in the Round 5 AFL Coaches Association votes.

Dangerfield's influence around the contest and in driving the Cats' forward was phenomenal, and he finished up with 23 disposals, six clearances, 10 score involvements and 442 metres gained.

"It's a rare, almost uncoachable ability that one: to take groundballs at such speed and be able to break away. That's him at his damaging best," Cats coach Chris Scott said after the game.

"When you think of him intuitively playing his best footy, that's the sort of thing you think about.

"He's doing exactly what we had hoped he would do as captain."

Pacy midfielder Max Holmes received the next most votes with six for his 20-disposals, six-clearances game, while Jeremy Cameron wasn't far behind with five votes after a four-goal haul.

Esava Ratugolea continues to impress in his new role in defence, earning four votes for his efforts, including a club-record six first-quarter intercept marks.

Mark Blicavs (three votes) and Tom Hawkins (one) rounded out the votes for Geelong, while Jake Waterman was the sole West Coast Eagles player to get a vote with one.

Cameron sits second on the overall leaderboard with 26 votes, behind leader Nick Daicos (Collingwood) on 35 votes.

Coaches Votes Round 5

9 Patrick Dangerfield (GEEL)
6 Max Holmes (GEEL)
5 Jeremy Cameron (GEEL)
4 Esava Ratugolea (GEEL)
3 Mark Blicavs (GEEL)
2 Tom Hawkins (GEEL)
1 Jake Waterman (WCE)