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Sunday’s games followed the Saturday pattern of two thrashings and one relatively close game, as set out in part two of my Round 11 highlights.
Both North Melbourne and Collingwood recorded high-scoring and big-margin wins over Brisbane and Fremantle respectively, and Greater Western Sydney caused the upset of the round by beating Adelaide at Adelaide Stadium by 16 points.
Unfortunately Jarrod Waite had to pull out of the North Melbourne side before the game, and that gave Jack Ziebell (three goals) the opportunity to move ahead of Waite again in the battle for goal superiority.
The three goals also took Ziebell to level with 1970s grand final hero Phil Baker, whereas Waite’s chances of being an AFL top 100 goal-kicker by the end of the season became just a bit harder.
Ben Brown, Todd Goldstein and Shaun Higgins were the three other North Melbourne top-100 goal-scorers to score goals.
Dayne Beams (Brisbane), who was relieved of the captaincy mid-year, has returned to some of his earlier form, with five goals for the losing side. The only two multiple goal-scorers for the Lions were Beames and Daniel McStay (two goals apiece), and both moved ahead of Brad Scott and Robert Copeland on Brisbane’s leading goal-scorers list, with Beames claiming the additional scalp of Stephen Lawrence as well.
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In the Collingwood vs Fremantle encounter the unusual feat of three players scoring their first AFL goal in their first game occurred. The stand-out was of course Collingwood’s mature-age recruit, 25-year-old Brody Mihocek. Mihocek kicked four goals in his debut game, the first Magpie to do so since Saverio Rocca in 1992.
For the Dockers, debutantes Scott Jones and Stefan Giro both scored their maiden goal. Collingwood’s captain Scott Pendlebury scored one magnificent goal – as per usual – to draw level with Craig Starcevich on the Magpies goal scoring list.
For Fremantle, David Mundy (two goals), Lachie Neale (two goals), Darcy Tucker (two goals) and Tom Sheridan (one goal) were all top-100 goal-scorers who added to their totals.
Greater Western Sydney’s 16-point victory over Adelaide would have stopped many tipsters from tipping the card, as it was the first real upset for Round 11, and it happened in the last game of the round.
Of course all seven goal-kickers appear in the top-100 goal scorers at the club as the Giants have yet to have 100 goal-kickers The stand-outs were Ryan Griffin, Zac Langdon and Jeremy Cameron, who all kicked three goals. Stephen Coniglio kicked two goals, the first one being his 50th goal in AFL football.
No player kicked more than two goals for Adelaide. Eddie Betts scored two, and that took him to level with Richmond’s Dick Harris on the AFL all-time top-100 goal-scorers list in equal 47th, but it did not change his ranking at Adelaide.
Richard Douglas also scored two goals, which was enough for him to draw level with current Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin on the Adelaide list. Paul Seedsman – the only other player to score two goals – continued his movement up the lower reaches of the Crows top-100 goal-scorers list.
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