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Much interest remains this weekend with four of the nine matches certain to decipher the top eight prospects of both competing clubs. Four of the other five games – if they go as planned – would improve the chances of the possible finalist playing in these games.
The Thursday night game provided Adelaide with a lifeline for the finals after defeating the Cats at Adelaide Stadium by 15 points.
After some weeks out injured, Eddie Betts took the field on Thursday night for his 289th game of AFL football and climbed into the top 100 game players of all time joining Barry Davis (Essendon/North Melbourne), Barry Hall (St Kilda/Sydney/Western Bulldogs), Michael Voss (Brisbane Bears/Brisbane Lions) and Stuart Maxfield (Richmond/Sydney) in 98th position.
For his career at Adelaide the game was also important, taking him up the list past the injured Andy Otten and ex Crows Kane Johnson and Kurt Tippett.
His meagre return of one goal for the game was still enough for him to equal Darren Jarman and Brett Burton in sixth place on the Crows top 100 goalkickers list. On the AFL goalkickers list, it meant that he finished the game equal with the Bulldog’s Chris Grant and (temporarily) the Hawks’ Jarryd Roughead.
Tom Lynch, with his career-best four goals for the Crows, claimed some big scalps and now has passed currently injured teammate Richard Douglas, current Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin and Geelong superstar Patrick Dangerfield.
Geelong forward Tom Hawkins also kicked 4 goals and – on the AFL goalkickers list moved past two Essendon stalwarts Scott Lucas and Terry Daniher.
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Patrick Dangerfield relived some of his goal kicking exploits of season 2017 with 3 goals that took him past one of the original cats from 1897, Eddy James and two more modern ones in Colin Rice and John Mossop.
Other Top 100 goal scorers on both teams managed to raise the two flags to register a goal but none of Josh Jenkins, Rory Sloane or ‘Tex’ Walker (Adelaide) or Daniel Menzel or Mitch Duncan (Geelong) kicked enough goals to improve their positions on the list.
Friday night’s game was expected to be a ho-hum affair with two of the years chronic underperformers playing for little more than pride and draft picks, but even in this game there were individual milestones to be celebrated.
Kade Simpson, still playing the game at an extremely high skill level moved up the AFL alltime game players list and past the group of players who finished their career on exactly 300 games to draw level with Shannon Grant (Sydney/North Melbourne) and Len Thompson (Collingwood/Sydney/Fitzroy).
Carlton’s second most experienced player, Marc Murphy joined Mark Maclure as the equal 16th highest game player at the club.
For St Kilda Jack Newnes played his 104th consecutive game and in the process drew level with Cyril Gambetta.
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