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Friday night’s game at a slippery and slidey Adelaide Oval proved that the Western Bulldogs would be no good at water polo. In the very wet opening three quarters the Bulldogs managed only one goal.
Matthew Suckling in his 150th game kicked their second goal in the last quarter for the Bulldogs to finish with a total of 2.14.26, the club’s lowest score since 1996 and the lowest ever since they have been known as the Western Bulldogs.
Neither Suckling nor the other goal-scorer, Lukas Webb, appears in the Dogs’ top 100 goal-kickers, so it was left to Adelaide to provide the top 100 highlights. Eddie Betts led the way with four goals – an outstanding effort in the wet conditions – in his 100th game for the Crows. Those four goals moved him one position up the all-time AFL top 100 goal-scorers.
Two other Adelaide top 100 goal-scorers added to their tallies on Friday night with one goal each: Josh Jenkins and Tom Lynch.
North Melbourne continued their good form with a convincing win over Greater Western Sydney, and their big two featured heavily among the goal-kickers, with Ben Brown scoring five and Jarrad Waite four goals. Brown continues his quest to be the 28th Kangaroo to pass 200 goals and along the way pass Tom Fitzmaurice, who I have discussed in an earlier article.
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Waite got a good boost up the goal-kickers tally, passing Paul Spargo, Robert Peterson, Doug Farrant and Peter Schofield and drawing level with Gerald Marchesi. He would have also passed captain Jack Ziebell if Ziebell hadn’t kicked two goals himself and passed Schofield and Marchesi. Todd Goldstien also kicked a goal, which was enough to make him level with Winston Abraham.
For Greater Western Sydney, Jeremy Cameron moved his total goals to 302 and ex-Collingwood player Lachlan Keeffe kicked his first goal in his second game for his new club.
The big game in China gave Tom Rockliff the opportunity to establish a unique record which may never be challenged: He is the only footballer to have played AFL football in three different countries! He also managed to kick a goal, but he was the only one of the eight goal-kickers not to be in Port Adelaide’s top 100.
Other goal-scorers were Chad Wingard (2), Sam Gray (2), Sam Powell-Pepper (2) and Charlie Dixon, Jack Watts, Ollie Wines and Travis Boak. The one who achieved the biggest lift up the club’s goal-kicking ladder was Sam Powell-Pepper, who moved from equal 72nd to equal 66th. Sam Gray left behind former player Toby Thurstons and current player Jake Neade.
Gold Coast had six players who scored one goal each, and most notable among these were Jacob Heron, who scored his first goal in his first game, and Lachie Weller, who scored his first goal in his ninth game.
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