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In 1929 Collingwoods Gordon Coventry was the first VFL footballer to kick 100 goals. Also the first to reach 300 games in an 18 year career, Coventry finished with 1,299 goals plus 100 goals in 25 interstate games.

When Coventry retired Ron Todd moved from CHF to FF kicking 120 in 1938 & 121 in 1939.

Peter Mckenna was mostly played at full forward for Collingwood between 1966-75, 1969 (98 goals), 1970 (143 goals-club record), 1971 (134 goals), 1972 (130 goals), 1973 (86 goals), 1974 (69 goals).

Brian Taylor kicked 100 for Collingwood in 1986.

Sav Rocca finished his Aussie footy day's with North Melbourne's Kangaroo's topping the club's goalkicking in 2001, 2002 and 2004. Prior to moving North, in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 was Collingwoods leading goalkicker. Retiring at the end of the 2006 season Roccahad played 101 games and kicked 234 goals in a blue and white jumper to add to his career record of 156 games and 514 goals with the 'Pies.
Brother Anthony played two years with Sydney Swans before moving to Collingwood, kicking 395 goals so far, 284 with the Magpies in 230 games.
 
1993 was a good year for the full forward. With Gary Ablett(124), Jason Dunstall(123), Tony Modra topped the list that year with 129 for the Crow's. Modra won the Coleman medal for a second time in 1997 with 84. 118 games with Adelaide, 440 goals, finishing his AFL career with Fremantle playing 47 games-148 goals.
 

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Franklin is the only realistic chance IMO. If he starts kicking straight and playing at his best more often then he's a strong chance, however it wouldn't surprise me if not one current AFL player ever kicks 100 again.

BTW, Aaron Edwards is a 50/50 chance to kick 100 in his entire career, let alone in one season.
 
Franklin is the only realistic chance IMO. If he starts kicking straight and playing at his best more often then he's a strong chance, however it wouldn't surprise me if not one current AFL player ever kicks 100 again.

BTW, Aaron Edwards is a 50/50 chance to kick 100 in his entire career, let alone in one season.

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Would love to see a Port player kick a ton, i'm sure there's plenty of 100 plus goalkicker's from the former Magpies history. Warren Tredrae is probably capable if at full forward injury free all year. :)

I would not be surprized if the next 100+ goalkicker is not on the poll list.
Just player's i rate....far from definitive.

A North Melbourne supporter/member, my choice being Aaron Edwards(VFL 100 Goalkicker) or Nathan Thompson.

You can choose who and for what reason, you want. :D
 
Melbourne obviously have a long history, to my surprize no 100+ goalkickers in a season.

This from Full Points Footy-

Fred Fanning had a comparatively brief league career but managed one feat that will take some beating. During his final season with Melbourne in 1947 he kicked an all time VFL record tally of 18 goals against St Kilda. He ended the season with a league ladder-topping 97 goals, his best ever return, but the following year he accepted the post of playing-coach at Victorian country team Hamilton, which had offered him nearly three times as much money per match as he was getting in the VFL. Thus, at the age of just twenty-five, his league football career was over (see footnote 1).
That career had begun in 1940 when, in a handful of senior appearances, which included the winning grand final against Richmond, he showed signs of developing into an admirable foil for full forward Norm Smith. At 193cm and 102kg, Fanning was something of a man mountain, and once he had set his sights on the ball there were few opposition players capable of impeding him. He was surprisingly quick over the ground, possessed huge hands which gripped the ball like a vice, and had a gravity-defying leap that enabled him to get sufficiently high in the air as to, in effect, add a good metre to his height.
Unfortunately for Melbourne and Fanning, however, cartilage problems prevented his resuming in 1941, and when he did return the following year he took time to re-discover his touch. Nevertheless, with 37 goals he topped the Redlegs' list for the first of five occasions, and in 1943 he did even better, kicking 62 goals to finish just one adrift of the league's leading goal kicker, Dick Harris of Richmond.
Fanning went on to top the league list himself on three occasions, with 87 goals in 1944, 67 in 1945 and, as noted above, 97 in his final season. He spent much of the 1946 season away from the goal front, but still managed 56 goals for the year.
Fred Fanning's 104 VFL games yielded a total of 411 goals, but his contribution to the club cause went much further than that. In 1945, for example, he won Melbourne's best and fairest award, and far from being 'goal hungry', his fundamental approach to the game was classically team-orientated, with his robust and sturdy frame frequently being brought to bear in the self-sacrificial service of team mates.
He might not have been pretty to watch, but he was demonstrably and consistently effective, and his premature departure left the league football scene the poorer.

David Nietz has a Coleman Medal and 628 goals in 301 games.
 

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Originally posted by oogac on the photoshop bay 13 thread...this is hilarious :D
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According to Full Points Footy- a reliable source, Alex Jesaulenko was going to play for Nth Melbourne. I wish he had. Carlton picked him up instead.
A spectacular and popular player Alex Jesaulenko was renowned for his high marking and goal kicking. The only Carlton player to kick 100. In 1970 he kicked 115 goals in the season and went on to play in the famous 1970 VFL Grand Final against Collingwood. In front of a record MCG crowd of 121,000 fans Carlton came from a 44-point deficit at half-time to win.

Steven Kernahan is Carltons most prolific goalkicker.

Brendon Fevola won the Coleman Medal in 2006 with 84 goals.
With a stronger team in 2008 & barring injury should go close again.
 
Peter Sumich began and ended his senior career with South Fremantle, but it is for the intervening nine seasons and 150 V/AFL games at West Coast that he is best remembered.

Powerful overhead, and a prodigious if sometimes frustratingly wayward kick, full forward Sumich was a key component in the Eagles' all conquering teams of the early 1990s. He topped their goal kicking list every year from 1989 to 1994, and again in 1997, with 111 goals in 1991 his best tally. He booted 5 goals in the losing grand final of 1991 against Hawthorn, and 6 in the following year's play-off when the Eagles downed Geelong.

He was also a member of the 1994 premiership team, kicking 2 goals as the Cats were again vanquished. He booted 514 goals in all for West Coast, and remains the club's highest aggregate goal kicker. He also kicked 11 goals in 5 state of origin appearances for Western Australia. -full points footy.

Scott Cummings kicked 88 (95 including finals) in 1999 to be the Eagles sole Coleman Medalist.
 
Port Adelaide....from full points footy

Tim Evans-

After playing junior football in Tasmania's North West Football Union with Penguin, Tim Evans was lured to the mainland by Geelong in 1971. In four seasons with the Cats, playing mainly on the half back line, he notched up 59 games, and impressed with his strong marking and robust ground play.

However, it was only after transferring to Port Adelaide in 1975 that his career truly began to blossom. Transferred to the goalfront by coach John Cahill when regular spearhead Randall Gerlach was indisposed, Evans proved a revelation, going on to become one of the greatest goalkickers in Australian football history. The First SA player to kick a ton (87) 1977, (90) 1978, (146) 1980, (98) 1981, (125) 1982 & (127) 1984.

In 248 games for the Magpies between 1975 and 1986 Evans accumulated 1,041 goals, topping the league list on six occasions, and Port's no fewer than ten times. He also booted 25 goals in 7 appearances for South Australia. Seldom spectacular, Evans was the archetypal 'goal machine'. As the late John Wood, writing in 'Magpie News' in August 1986 at the time of Evans' retirement, put it, "He was an ideal amalgam of finesse and raw strength.

If the players ahead of him delivered it, Tim was a certainty to mark it. If they blasted it in high he (more often than not with two flying against him) was a fifty-fifty go. Either way you could get your pen ready to mark down another one."

Scott Hodges-

Had Port Adelaide and not Adelaide been awarded the first South Australian AFL license in 1990 it is tempting to speculate on the impact this might have had on the career of Scott Hodges.

At that time, Hodges had just finished his fourth season with Port, and was at the very peak of his form: he had just booted a league record 153 goals for the year, and had become only the second full forward to win the Magarey Medal.

Had it then been his destiny to enter the AFL with Port, it is hard not to imagine him - injuries permitting - having achieved considerable success. As it was, he ended up being forced to ply his trade at the game's elite level with the Adelaide Crows, which in a way was a bit like Jack Dyer being told, while still at the peak of his career, that he was being cleared to Collingwood.

In three seasons with the Crows, Hodges displayed only rare glimpses of his true ability, and one sensed that he had difficulty - if only, perhaps, unconsciously - generating the same levels of passion and commitment while wearing a navy, gold and red jumper as he did in his much loved black and white one.
Judged by any standards, Scott Hodges' achievements in the SANFL with Port Adelaide and the Port Adelaide Magpies were noteworthy in the extreme. Between 1987 and 1998 he played a total of 183 SANFL matches, and kicked 684 goals.

In addition to his 1990 Magarey Medal, he was a dual club best and fairest winner, and headed the league's goal kicking ladder on three occasions, each time with in excess of 100 goals. (153) 1990, (129) 1994 & (117) 1996; A Magpie premiership player in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1998, he probably vies with Tim Evans for the mantle of the greatest ever Port Adelaide full forward.

(Fittingly, the club's official 'Greatest Team 1870 to 2000' includes both players.) Strong both in the air and at ground level, deceptively quick, and a prodigious, if not always unwaveringly accurate, kick, Scott Hodges was undoubtedly one of the most exciting and noteworthy SANFL footballers of his generation.

At AFL level for the Crows, he played a total of 38 games, and kicked precisely 100 goals, between 1991 and 1993 and in 1996, with his tally of 48 goals in 1992 being good enough to top the club's list. In 1997 he was a member of Port Adelaide's inaugural AFL list, but failed to break into the team.
 
10 games down and Lance Franklin averaging 5 is on target for a ton.
Fev will go close, probably in the 80's at seasons end.

Notable omissions from the poll (started pre-season) being Daniel Bradshaw(43), Jarryd Roughead(32).

Daniel Motlop, Aker, Paul Medhurst, Brett Burton, Michael O'Loughlin also having good seasons in front of goal.

In Hindsight could have left out half of the listed through either injury, high expectations, poor form or used in different positions on the ground.
 

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  • LANCE "Buddy" Franklin's goalkicking assault has rekindled hope the magical mark of 150 goals in a season can be broken.
Peter Hudson, joint holder of that record with the late Bob Pratt, has watched Franklin regularly in his role as Hawthorn's No. 1 ticket-holder.
And he says the sky is the limit for Franklin.

"I've never accepted recent talk that the days of 100-goal full-forwards are over. In fact, with indoor stadiums and perfect playing conditions, 150 goals is realistic," said Hudson, who kicked 727 goals in 129 matches for Hawthorn.

"You can't manufacture people to kick 100 goals because they are born, like Tony Lockett and Jason Dunstall, and Buddy Franklin is the same.
"If he can kick nine or 10 goals one week, and if everything goes right, I think he can challenge (Fred Fanning's) 18-goal record in one game, then he's still capable of doing the same the next week.

"And he won't find himself in ankle-deep mud at a windy Arden St.
"I'm waiting for the day when he marks a full-back's kick-out on the wing, takes a bounce and kicks a goal."

Hudson says he is "loving" watching Franklin play, even if he struggles to comprehend the left-footer's angled approach to kicking goals.
"But Buddy is all about instinct and if you take that away you don't know what serious damage you could cause. His flair is his No. 1 weapon," Hudson said.

"What I can't work out is what is he? He has the makings of a champion centre half-forward but you don't see any of those with 59 goals after 11 games.
"But 150 is do-able, whether it be Buddy or someone else. I kicked 146 goals in 1970 when we didn't play in the finals. Peter McKenna kicked 143, Jason Dunstall 145.

"And Tony Lockett had a year in 1989 where he kicked 78 goals from 11 games. Gary Ablett in 1993 got 124 from 17 matches. So it will happen."
Brian Taylor, who in 1986 kicked 100 goals as a leading/contested-marking full-forward for Collingwood, says Franklin plays football in a way never seen before from a key forward.

Taylor regards the Hawthorn forward as a player with "indefinable" qualities that set him apart from any other.
"He is the Kobe Bryant of the AFL. I finished watching Bryant win a NBL final for the LA Lakers on Wednesday morning and thought of Franklin," Taylor said.

"You can't completely cut either of them out of the game. You might succeed in a certain area but even when you cut Buddy's supply, he will still kick four or five.
"The great full-forwards, and I think of players like Jason Dunstall and Tony Lockett, ran in straight lines from full-forward to centre half-forward, or full-forward to a flank.

"Buddy Franklin runs from the wing to a forward pocket, or back flank to a forward flank.
"The difference is his athletic ability to cover that territory. Gary Ablett Sr is the only one I can think of who could play up the ground, but Buddy is 11cm taller. He offers so much more flexibility than the traditional full-forwards."

Franklin is on target to boot more than 120 goals in the home-and-away season, perhaps 130-plus with finals.
Didn't the football experts say as recently as last year that the era of the 100-goal full-forward was over?

Naturally, we in the media don't admit we got it all horribly wrong, because that isn't the way it works, and, in fairness, it may take a once-in-a generation player to beat the odds.

Source
 
With 8 rounds to go
Lance Franklin - 66.49 Should get 100 before the finals.
Brendon Fevola - 61.31 Go close if Carlton make the 8.
Matthew Pavlich - 53.31 Another great season.
Daniel Bradshaw - 47.17 at an amazing 73%. Along with Motlop, Lloyd and Medhurst the most accurate goalkicker's in the top 15 so far.

Thanks to all who have participated in the poll :thumbsu:
 
With 8 rounds to go
Lance Franklin - 66.49 Should get 100 before the finals.
Brendon Fevola - 61.31 Go close if Carlton make the 8.
Matthew Pavlich - 53.31 Another great season.
Daniel Bradshaw - 47.17 at an amazing 73%. Along with Motlop, Lloyd and Medhurst the most accurate goalkicker's in the top 15 so far.

Thanks to all who have participated in the poll :thumbsu:

It's not a ton if you kick it during the finals, i used to get annoyed when the bomber fans ran onto the ground for lloyd's 100th goal when he kicked them in the finals series.

Hopefully Lance Franklin will crack the ton by Rd 20. Excellent effort by a CHF.
 

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