Best Key Forward?

[WereFlyingHigh4]

Thoughts???

I still think Buddy just because he's always a threat and a genuine match winner. Riewoldt and Schulz deserve mentions too, been very good this year.

 

[port_adelaide_1870]

1- Riewoldt
2- Franklin
3- Schulz

 

[Brenton Davy]

1. Schulz
2. Buddy
3. Josh Jenkins (ok a little biased, but he has 17 goals from 5 games. Had he played the whole season at the rate he would have around 27 goals)

 

[Adz2332]

1. Riewoldt
2. Franklin
3. Schulz

Based on this season alone

 

[Big Trozza]

You talking this season? Or overall?

Either way.

Walker
Jenkins
Podra

 

[MiloStedman]

I we're talking this season,

1. N. Riewoldt
2. Schulz
3. Kennedy

Riewoldt edges Schulz because of where his team is on the ladder. Stunning how well he's done to end up just one goal off the top of the Coleman regardless of how well his team is doing and how few/many goals his team kicks each round.

 

[DV2000]

Riewoldt had a good start to the year, but he has slowed down a bit over the last couple of weeks. He is such a good player, and has always has a strong impact on the game. His hard running and strong marking abilities are his main strengths, and he rarely has a game in which he doesn't have some sort of positive impact for his team. He is still a genuine contender for the Coleman medal this year.

Jay Shultz has had a breakout year this season, and has been quite accurate, kicking 25.5 for the year so far.
Josh Kennedy has been OK for the eagles so far, but apart from his recent 11 goal haul against GWS, he hasn't been in top form.

Lance Franklin is a prolific forward. He sits in equal second position for shots at goal this season, but the thing that is holding him back is his sheer in-accuracy. He is very quick and agile for the powerful unit that he is, and can be lethal when at his very best.

 

[port_adelaide_1870]

Riewoldt had a good start to the year, but he has slowed down a bit over the last couple of weeks. He is such a good player, and has always has a strong impact on the game. His hard running and strong marking abilities are his main strengths, and he rarely has a game in which he doesn't have some sort of positive impact for his team. He is still a genuine contender for the Coleman medal this year.

Jay Shultz has had a breakout year this season, and has been quite accurate, kicking 25.5 for the year so far.
Josh Kennedy has been OK for the eagles so far, but apart from his recent 11 goal haul against GWS, he hasn't been in top form.

Lance Franklin is a prolific forward. He sits in equal second position for shots at goal this season, but the thing that is holding him back is his sheer in-accuracy. He is very quick and agile for the powerful unit that he is, and can be lethal when at his very best.

Not really a "breakout year", Schulz has always been consistent and accurate since coming to Port... I mean he kicked 42 goal in 15 games in 2012, and last year 49 goals playing more up the ground.

 

[Bailey01]

WTF?!?!?! Get Cloke taken off that poll!!! Where's JJ and Tex

 

[port_adelaide_1870]

WTF?!?!?! Get Cloke taken off that poll!!! Where's JJ and Tex

seriously?

 

[Bailey01]

seriously?

Maybe too far but having Cloke in that poll 9.15 for the 800k superstar

 

[lmach]

WTF?!?!?! Get Cloke taken off that poll!!! Where's JJ and Tex

Get angry. Jenkins doesn't deserve to be anywhere near this poll.

 

[Bailey01]

Get angry. Jenkins doesn't deserve to be anywhere near this poll.

Can live with that but Cloke??????

 

[Heaps of fun]

Where's Petrie?

 

[lmach]

Can live with that but Cloke??????

Just because he's having a poor year doesn't mean he's no good.

 

[eth-dog]

Hawkins
Nroo
Cameron

Buddy isn't a key forward, just an oversized flanker.

 

[kade]

Hawkins
Nroo
Cameron

Buddy isn't a key forward, just an oversized flanker.

strange comment coming from an essendon supporter

 

[scott_the_man]

buddy has it all... speed, skill, agility, height, strength, composure, x factor, aggression.
what more could you want for a key forward?

 

[eth-dog]

strange comment coming from an essendon supporter

I'm not saying he isn't a gun, but he's not a key forward. His main strengths are speed, agility, field kicking and engine. Main weaknesses overhead ability (except against Essendon) and goalkicking (same exception). Ignore his height/weight. I just described a flanker

 

[aussierulesrules]

Riewoldt had a good start to the year, but he has slowed down a bit over the last couple of weeks.

He certainly has, but there are a couple of very significant reasons for that which don't impact on his standing as currently the best or not.

One is fitness/injury, as he landed badly early in our game against Brisbane a month ago and looked as though he'd hurt his bung knee again and really struggled to run for the rest of that game (especially after he copped another knock on one of his legs later in that game) and it was a similar story the next week against Hawthorn, where he again looked to have hurt his knee and/or leg badly a couple of times and was again very obviously restricted in his movement for pretty much the whole game.

It doesn't seem to have been as bad since those two games, but I imagine it would have had some lingering effect, if only on his overall fitness, as he probably hasn't trained much as a result of all that and I dare say there is still some level of soreness restricting his mobility.

The other major factor that would have impacted his performances in the latter weeks is that he has been generally getting at least double-teamed every week for at least the last 3 weeks. Obviously teams saw how dominant he was at the start of the season (when he was left pretty much one-out most of the time) and how reliant we were on him, so since the Hawthorn game (when he was often surrounded by Gibson and co.- sometimes we'd bomb it to him and he'd be up against as many as 4 of them!) he's had two by his side almost the whole time, as teams realised that if they kept Nick quiet they pretty much ensured they'd beat us. Just about every time I looked forward to where Nick was on the weekend he had two from Gold Coast within about a metre of him and it was a similar story the week before (probably was the week before that, against Hawthorn, but I wasn't at that game).

Good luck continuing to dominate when you're in a struggling team and are either struggling with injury, or are getting double/triple-teamed, or both!



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[TheWhiteRhino]

Hey may not be the best, but Kurt Tippett has been sensational for the Swans - 42 goals in basically 13 games (injured within 5 minutes in semi final).

That's over 3 goals per game.

 

[The Swert]

Hey may not be the best, but Kurt Tippett has been sensational for the Swans - 42 goals in basically 13 games (injured within 5 minutes in semi final).

That's over 3 goals per game.

Lance Franklin 599 goals from 190 games.

That's over 3 goals per game for a whole career! No other current player averages more than 2.4.

 

[NUFC Tiger]

Hasn't had a great season but surely Jack Riewoldt would be worthy of inclusion?

 

[ryan_seb]

Hasn't been a great year for key forwards so it's a pretty hard decision

 

[Engimal]

Hasn't had a great season but surely Jack Riewoldt would be worthy of inclusion?

Nope.