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The Thursday night game between Richmond and Carlton – although finishing as expected – served up a number of milestones.
Both Marc Murphy and Jack Riewoldt brought up their 250th games and Riewoldt got the goal he needed to overtake Michael Roach in the goal-kicking records at both Richmond and the AFL.
Things did not go well for Alex Rance in his 200th game, however, as a severe knee injury will end his unbroken run of 63 games, including 49 in 2017 and 2018, the best streak of any current Tiger. Rance will not play again in 2019.
Alex Rance had an unhappy milestone match. (Photo by Michael Dodge/Getty Images)
Marc Murphy managed one goal, and that saw him equal Adrian Gleeson and share 32nd position on the Blues top 100 goal-scorers.
Gleeson, a rover recruited from Koroit, played in the 1987 premiership and a losing Grand Final in 1993.
He possessed a good goal sense and scored his 174 goals in just 176 games.
Three of the Blues’ imports also kicked goal No.1 for their new club, and three of the Tigers’ new recruits kicked their first goal for Richmond, including Noah Balta in his first AFL game.
On Friday night, Geelong edged out Collingwood in a scrappy game, with five of the Cats’ top 100 goal-scorers adding to their total.
Tom Hawkins notched up his 500th goal, Gary Ablett edged past former captain and rover Bill Goggin, Mitch Duncan caught Gareth Andrews, who took a year’s sabbatical during his years at Geelong, and rover Arthur Rayson, who was the victim of some Saints thuggery in 1927.
Patrick Dangerfield also equalled Darren Milburn’s goal tally. Debutante Charlie Constable made it one out of one.
The Magpies welcomed back two strangers: Dayne Beames, who had not played for the club since 2014, and Jamie Elliott, who had missed nearly two years through injury.
Amongst the club’s top 100 goal kickers, Elliott passed Ricky Barham, Beames caught foundation player Archie Smith, whilst Jordan de Goey leapt over four players, all who had spent time at other AFL clubs: Jack Knight (St Kilda), Ross Brewer (Melbourne and Richmond), Rod Oborne (Richmond) and Nick Davis (Sydney).
The first Saturday game of the round saw underdogs Port Adelaide beat Melbourne by 26 points and Justin Westhoff achieve the best goal total for the round so far with five goals.
Westhoff is involved in an intriguing battle with Robbie Gray, who played his 200th AFL game, for second place on the Power’s goal-kicking list and to be the second player to score 300 goals for the club.
His five goals took him to 296, one ahead of Gray who scored just the one goal in the Power’s win.
Melbourne’s current leading goal kicker, Nathan Jones, not only passed Jim Stynes on the games-played list, but kicked one goal to pass Stynes on the goals scored list as well.
He now sits on 131 goals, equal with tough Tasmanian Ray Biffin, who played both ends of the ground in the 1960s and ’70s, plus Richmond reject Ricky Jackson, who kicked five goals against Carlton in the 1988 preliminary final and won Melbourne’s goal kicking in the same year.
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