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Football’s a funny game. Before Friday night we were convinced the top five was settled, then along comes Rhyce Shaw and North Melbourne to upset the apple cart.
The Kangaroos didn’t just beat the Tigers; Richmond were shown up to vulnerable until they get their stars back.
The result lifts North Melbourne back onto the tail of the chasing pack and provides more incentive for next week against the Suns.
Only one elite goalscorer from each team was among the goals, but they both did it in style. Ben Brown scored five for North Melbourne and Dustin Martin three for Richmond but neither advanced any higher up their club’s top 100 goalscorers list. Mason Wood with his four goals, however, became a prospect for top-100 status as he now sits only two goals behind the hot seat occupied by Darryl Sutton.
I knew a loss was coming for Collingwood, but I didn’t expect it to be at the hands of the Dockers as the Pies had three key inclusions which in retrospect may have left them a little underdone. They can claim some bad luck with the non-umpiring review, but the fact remains Fremantle played well and had four more scoring shots than Collingwood.
Scott Pendlebury kicked two for the Magpies, Dayne Beams one and Jordan de Goey on return three. Pendlebury went nowhere on the goalscorers list, but Beams passed 1930s dual premiership player Vin Doherty and De Goey zoomed past Shane Watson, Tony Francis, Brodie Holland, Len Murphy and Ron McKeown to draw level with James ‘Charles’ Manson.
Michael Walters was the last-minute hero again, and his two goals took his total at Fremantle to 240, while Bradley Hill and Brendan Matera also scored two goals to move up the list.
Greater Western Sydney proved they are a real chance this year with one of only two scores over 100 points for the weekend. Jeremy Cameron continues to tease us on the AFL top 100 goalscorers list and the prospect of 100 goals by season’s end and Stephen Coniglio passed Callen Ward on the goal kickers list.
At the Suns, it was good to see George Horlin-Smith and Ben King start their goal-kicking careers with one goal each.
At the Cattery Geelong got the job done with Tom Hawkins booting four to move ahead of Brian Taylor on the AFL elite goalscorers list. Mitch Duncan kicked one to draw level with ex-Mooroopna player Clyde Helmer on the Cats list. Helmer died in 1945 trying to disarm a bomb in New Guinea.
Sam Reid continues to climb up Sydney’s goalscorers list, this week equaling teammate Josh Kennedy. Tom Papley got one goal and joined three players who completed their careers at the Swans on 99 goals: Louis Jetta, Chris Laird and Adam Schneider. Papley, with one goal needed for the ton, needs to be warned that the three centurions in 2019 – Patrick Dangerfield, Jordan de Goey and Orazio Fantasia – have all missed weeks through injury. Isaac Heeney equalled Dick Casey and Harold Robertson.
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