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The “middle” three games of Round 5 (late Saturday and early Sunday) had their share of goal kicking highlights, the most significant being Luke Breust’s five goals in a losing team (Hawthorn) against North Melbourne.
Breust has now kicked 320 goals, the same number as former AFL record game player Michael Tuck and now is equal 10th with Tuck on Hawthorn’s all time goal kickers list.
Michael Walters (Fremantle) also kicked five goals and signalled his respect for his teammate of two years ago, Shane Yarran, when he pointed to the sky after his first goal.
His position on Freo’s top 100 goalkickers list did not alter and he still remains in the fourth position, 16 goals behind Jeff Farmer (3rd). Ben Brown’s four goals did not alter his position on North Melbourne’s list either and he still remains more than 20 goals behind the player immediately ahead of him on the club’s top 100 goal scorers (Tom Fitzmaurice).
Fitzmaurice was an extraordinary character who played in premierships at Essendon in 1923 and 1924 and then with Geelong in 1925. He captain-coached Geelong in 1928 before leaving the league for three years and then returning to North Melbourne in 1932, aged 33.
In four years at North Melbourne, he led the goal kicking for three seasons and kicked 196 goals.
He also coached the club for eight games in 1934. Previously he had won two best and fairest at Essendon. The son of an Irish hurling champion, Fitzmaurice also excelled in rowing and high jump and even competed in a singing competition.
While Brown’s position on the North Melbourne list did not alter, Jarrad Waite’s did. His three goals took him past John McCarthy and Mark Arceri and equal with current day teammate Todd Goldstein and Les Allen.
Captain Jack Ziebell kicked two goals which was enough to take him past Robert Peterson and Doug Farrant and level with Peter Schofield.
Hawthorn’s Isaac Smith past Robert Dipierdomico with the one goal he scored against North Melbourne.
At Port Adelaide, Jake Neade’s two goals made him the big mover up the top 100 list, passing Brett Montgomery, Michael Wilson and teammate Matthew Broadbent. He is now level with Stephen Salopek, but still one behind Ollie Wines who also kicked a goal against Geelong.
Ex Kangaroo Lindsay Thomas kicked a goal in his first game for Power, but was reported and may not get the chance to add to his one goal total for a couple of weeks.
At Fremantle, Matthew Taberner past teammate Lachie Neale and Michael McCarthy drew level with Matthew Burton.
At the Western Bulldogs, Tom Boyd played his 50th game of AFL football and kicked two goals but he is still a long way off appearing in the Bulldogs’ top 100 goal kickers. Patrick Lipinski kicked his first goal for the club in a game that was bereft of goal scorers that appear in the club’s top 100.
At least at Geelong, two of their top 100 goalkickers appeared on the score sheet: Mitch Duncan and Daniel Menzel both scored one goal but remain down in the lower half of the club’s Top 100 goal scorers.
Geelong was not helped by the withdrawal of the club’s leading current goal scorer in Tom Hawkins due to back spasms.
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