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After starting with two upsets, the remainder of Round 11 settled down with favourites winning the next seven games, so the loss by Richmond could prove costly.
They dropped from the top four to sixth, so now need to climb over two teams to make the top four again and they face the Cats next week.
Collingwood’s loss was nowhere as bad as it only slightly decreased their percentage and left them still safely inside the top four. They are one of only three teams to have scored more than 1000 points this year.
Brisbane showed they needed to be treated seriously with a 19-point win over a competitive Hawthorn at the Gabba. Eric Hipwood scored two goals to take him level with Shaun Hart and only four goals away from 100 career goals, and Lewis Taylor booted one goal to push departed Tom Rockliff out of the top 20 goal-scorers.
For Hawthorn, two elite goal-scorers – Luke Breust and Shaun Burgoyne – scored one each.
Adelaide pinched the game from Melbourne by two points with a last quarter charge, but still had to survive a wayward kick at goal by Sam Weideman. Jeff Garlett’s three goals to Nathan Jones’ one means they are now tied as the leading current elite goal-kicker at the club in equal 51st place on 137 goals.
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Melbourne’s other elite goal-scorer in the game, Tom McDonald, was kept goalless, but one major to Christian Petracca means he is now only one goal away from sharing the hot seat with Andrew Moir and Bryan Kenneally on the Demons’ top 100 goal-kickers list.
For Adelaide, Taylor Walker got the one goal he needed to be the 96th player to kick 400 goals. He is now level with Cliff Rankin in 95th position on the AFL’s all time top 100 goal-scorers list. Eddie Betts got two goals to temporarily lead Josh Kennedy in the AFL elite.
In Shanghai, Port Adelaide crunched a sick and sorry Saints team to the tune of 70 points. Port’s 22 goals were scored by 13 players with the notables being Justin Westhoff, whose one took him to 299, and Sam Gray, whose one took him to level with Danyle Pearce and Matthew Primus.
St Kilda’s only multiple goal-scorer was Jade Gresham, who drew level with Garry Sidebottom on 86 goals.
Of course Essendon won. Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti kicked three goals! That took him past Len Johnson and Justin Blumfield in Essendon’s goal-scoring elite, but Mark Baguley had more to celebrate than his two goals.
The game against Carlton took his total to 133 matches and he now shares the games-played hot seat (100th position) with Courtenay Dempsey and gains an invite to any top 100 functions held from now on.
The final game of the round saw the Eagles thrash the Bulldogs by just over ten goals with five multiple goal-kickers and nine in total. Josh Kennedy raised the No.1 bar by another three goals and Jack Darling took his total to 344.
For the Bulldogs, Marcus Bontempelli kicked one to equal former team-mate Luke Dahlhaus on 110 goals.
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