There's a column in the HS listing the top 10 individual games of the decade.
It's behind a paywall but I can post the whole article if allowed.
It's subjective I know, and it's a Melbourne paper, but can't see how Johnson beats Lecca.
Johnson was playing at home in a side that won by 30 goals and they were doing party tricks.
Lecca playing away.
Nothing serious, just a bit of filler during the off-season.
Thoughts?
1. LANCE FRANKLIN (Round 10, 2012)
In a decade where goals dried up to their lowest levels in half a century, Lance Franklin’s 13 goals against North Melbourne in Launceston in 2012 was a thankful throwback to the big bags of yesterday.
The then Hawk forward hadn’t kicked a goal until late in the first term before he unleashed his power.
His 13.4 prompted North Melbourne coach Brad Scott to call it “one of the best individual displays I’ve seen in my time in footy.
“We haven’t seen a goalkicking effort like that since the glory days of the full-forwards of (Jason) Dunstall, (Gary) Ablett and (Tony) Lockett.”
2. STEVE JOHNSON (Round 19, 2011)
It was the game that ended Dean Bailey’s AFL coaching career, but it was also one of Steve Johnson’s finest individual moments.
The Cats mauled on Melbourne by 189 points and Johnson took his already sublime standard to an even higher plain.
Stats don’t necessarily make a game.
But try these “Stevie J” moments on for size – seven goals, 34 disposals, 10 goal assists, 11 scoring assists, nine marks, six inside 50s, six marks inside 50s and five clearances, yet amazingly only two Brownlow votes.
The umps went for Joel Selwood (43 disposals), even if the Herald Sun’s Scott Gullan gave Johnson an “11 out of 10” for “one of the more extraordinary individual performances seen.”
3. MARK LECRAS (Round 16, 2010)
The man himself dubbed it “one of those games where you don’t want the final siren to go” as Mark LeCras feasted on the hapless Bombers in 2010.
In a superb display of precision goalkicking and a capacity of being in the right place at the right time, the West Coast forward kicked 12 goals and two behinds in one of the best performances of the modern era.
No one has ever kicked more goals at Docklands.
LeCras kicked seven goals in the first half and brought up his 12th for the game with only three minutes remaining.
Mark LeCras humiliated the Bombers in 2010.
It's behind a paywall but I can post the whole article if allowed.
It's subjective I know, and it's a Melbourne paper, but can't see how Johnson beats Lecca.
Johnson was playing at home in a side that won by 30 goals and they were doing party tricks.
Lecca playing away.
Nothing serious, just a bit of filler during the off-season.
Thoughts?
1. LANCE FRANKLIN (Round 10, 2012)
In a decade where goals dried up to their lowest levels in half a century, Lance Franklin’s 13 goals against North Melbourne in Launceston in 2012 was a thankful throwback to the big bags of yesterday.
The then Hawk forward hadn’t kicked a goal until late in the first term before he unleashed his power.
His 13.4 prompted North Melbourne coach Brad Scott to call it “one of the best individual displays I’ve seen in my time in footy.
“We haven’t seen a goalkicking effort like that since the glory days of the full-forwards of (Jason) Dunstall, (Gary) Ablett and (Tony) Lockett.”
2. STEVE JOHNSON (Round 19, 2011)
It was the game that ended Dean Bailey’s AFL coaching career, but it was also one of Steve Johnson’s finest individual moments.
The Cats mauled on Melbourne by 189 points and Johnson took his already sublime standard to an even higher plain.
Stats don’t necessarily make a game.
But try these “Stevie J” moments on for size – seven goals, 34 disposals, 10 goal assists, 11 scoring assists, nine marks, six inside 50s, six marks inside 50s and five clearances, yet amazingly only two Brownlow votes.
The umps went for Joel Selwood (43 disposals), even if the Herald Sun’s Scott Gullan gave Johnson an “11 out of 10” for “one of the more extraordinary individual performances seen.”
3. MARK LECRAS (Round 16, 2010)
The man himself dubbed it “one of those games where you don’t want the final siren to go” as Mark LeCras feasted on the hapless Bombers in 2010.
In a superb display of precision goalkicking and a capacity of being in the right place at the right time, the West Coast forward kicked 12 goals and two behinds in one of the best performances of the modern era.
No one has ever kicked more goals at Docklands.
LeCras kicked seven goals in the first half and brought up his 12th for the game with only three minutes remaining.
