Four Goalkickers

[The Royal Sampler]

That's the first time in a long time that I can remember us having such a short list of contributors on the scoreboard.

Do you see it as an anomaly or a symptom of some deeper issue?

 

[mattys123]

It's just the way it worked out on the day, I'm sure the next time we play the Eagles it will be a different story.

And it could have been much different;

Dawes kicked 0.2
Goldsack kicked 0.3
Sidebottom kicked 0.2
Elliott missed a shot late he would eat for breakfast at VFL level.

If each of them only kicked one goal we would have won by more and we would have had as many individual goal scorers as the Eagles.

We didn't have Sinclair who has been averaging a goal of game also.

But I also believe that against the better sides you are less likely to have a plethora of individual goal scorers than you are against the lesser sides, and not just because of the higher likely score against the lesser sides.

I don't see it as a problem, others may have a different opinion though.

 

[Kirby]

An anomaly for mine.

 

[Number 10]

Swan also could have put a boot to blairs goal in the third. Not worried at all as west coast have amazing defensive structures and we got the win.

 

[Swooop]

Good question TRS, but anomaly for mine aswell.

 

[76woodenspooners]

Many of our goals came from long range bombs kicked from outside the 50. West Coast were good at defending inside 50. So that limits the options because not so many players can and will nail it from outside.

 

[TradeDraft]

We Won - So I don't care how we won

 

[76woodenspooners]

We Won - So I don't care how we won

Oh, c'mon Dave, of course you care! We all care.

Otherwise, why bother even going to games? We could simply checkout the results on the Internet

 

[the mighty T]

There was a concern when this was happening consistently last season and we were relying on trav far too much to kick a winning score. However for the majority of this year we seem to have that spread of goal kickers we had in 2010 back

 

[jonbe54]

Many of our goals came from long range bombs kicked from outside the 50. West Coast were good at defending inside 50. So that limits the options because not so many players can and will nail it from outside.

The good side of that is that we have shown we aren't totally dependent on inside 50's goals, blokes like Fas, Beamsey and Goldy being able to nail them outside 50 takes the pressure off our twin towers having to do it all.

 

[tomj]

But I also believe that against the better sides you are less likely to have a plethora of individual goal scorers than you are against the lesser sides, and not just because of the higher likely score against the lesser sides.

I agree with this. The better teams in the competition generally have a better defence which makes it harder to have lots of individual goal kickers. Lesser teams aren't so disciplined in their defence and many of the midfield can sneak forward for some easy goals.

I don't see it as a problem unless it happens regularly, if the same happens against Fremantle this week then there might be an issue, but I doubt it will.

 

[StillWaiting5689]

Only really a problem if it happens regular and we start relying on to few to do to much and struggle to put together winning scores. As pointed out some gettable points were scored which makes the score sheet look different.

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

Anomaly 100%

 

[Yidaki]

Nothing to worry about imo.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Its a trivia question only

When was the last time all of Collingwoods goalkickers were multi goalkickers in a match?

 

[Yidaki]

Its a trivia question only

When was the last time all of Collingwoods goalkickers were multi goalkickers in a match?

Was it maybe sometime last year, particularly earlier on?