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The highlight of the first of the Saturday games no doubt was the form of the Fremantle Dockers, who responded to their last realistic chance of making the finals by thrashing a very dispirited Carlton side using 12 goal-kickers in a very even performance.
Only two players kicked multiple goals: Lachie Neale got three, which took him above Trent Croad, Chris Tarrant, Nick Suban and Heath Black and into the top 30 all-time goal-kickers at the Dockers, and Nat Fyfe, who also played his 150th game for the club, equalling Troy Cook), scored two quality goals which took him past former captain Peter Bell, who is now a TV Commentator, and drew him level with Paul Hasleby as a top-ten goal-scorer for the club.
Other notable goal achievers for the club were Luke Ryan, who scored his first AFL goal, and Brennan Cox, who took only 17 games to join Garth Taylor and Adam Campbell in the hot seat at equal 99th on the Dockers all-time top 100 goal-kickers list.
Peter Bell was also passed as the number 15 game-player at the club by Haydn Ballantyne, whose one goal also further cemented his place as number two goal-kicker at the Dockers.
For Carlton, with only two top-100 game-players and two top-100 goal-scorers playing in the team and no goals to half-time, it was looking extremely difficult to highlight any milestones in the game. However, the courageous Kade Simpson (number five on the Carlton all-time list) played his 298th game and in doing so passed Wayne Campbell (Richmond) and Lennie Hayes (St Kilda) to sit only two games away from the 300-game milestone in outright 84th position in the AFL’s top-100 game players of all time.
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The only other Blues top-100 player in the game was Matthew Kreuzer, who passed Wayne Harmes and Kevin Hall, who boast five premierships between them.
The Blues kicked six goals in the second half and two of these were scored by Kreuzer, who now sits only two goals behind Chris Judd and Chris Yarran, who jointly hold down the 100th position on Carlton’s all-time top-100 goal-scorers list. Levi Casboult kicked one of the other goals and that drew him level with former champion player and coach Brett Ratten, a Yarra Glen ‘boy’.
Matthew Wright also provided a highlight by playing his 150th game of AFL football. Recruited from Adelaide after playing 95 games for the Crows, Wright started at Carlton in 2016 and since then has not missed a game in the last 55 played by the club.
There is one more highlight on the horizon for the Blues: Ed Curnow, already considered a champion by many, on Saturday passed the number of games played by three former champions of the club, including Barry Gill (a dual premiership player), Ken Sheldon (a triple premiership player and later coach of St Kilda) and Jon Dorotich (from South Fremantle and also a premiership player), and now sits only one game away from becoming a top-100 game-player at the Carlton Football Club.
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