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It's not, i mean only certain players will make the finals, so i think a ton in the regular season is cause for applause, otherwise, meh.
 
Hodgepodge said:
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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Franklin's not a CHF. He's a tall forward pocket. He can't take contested marks either. Doesn't chase, can't tackle. Waste of space really.
 
Only certain players kick 100 goals in a season, a lot of them make the finals. Certainly makes up for games they may have missed during the H&A to get a chance to reach a ton.
It looks like we might have two players reaching 100 in 2008.

As someone's already pointed out, not since Tony Lockett in the H&A.
 

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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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indeed. I didnt mind the whole storming of the ground, i just dont like it when fans and media alike say he kicked a ton.
 
What odds do ppl reckon I'd get next year for Buddy and Roughy kicking 200 between them for the season?
 
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What odds do ppl reckon I'd get next year for Buddy and Roughy kicking 200 between them for the season?
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Fairly short i'd reckon. Go for Franklin kicking a ton this and next year. With or without finals. A ton = 100 aka one hundred.
 
Lance Franklin closes in on century
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2nd August 2008, 11:00 WST

Hawthorn forward Lance Franklin is fast closing in on becoming the first player in a decade to kick 100 goals in an AFL home and away season, helped by a stellar performance against Collingwood.

The 21-year-old kicked eight majors in Friday night's 17.14 (116) to 8.14 (62) win at the MCG, taking his tally to 85 with four rounds to play.
Such was his dominance over Collingwood's Nick Maxwell, he was able to take 12 marks, pick up 21 possessions and have 15 shots on goal, including six behinds and one shanked shot which failed to register.

It prompted Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse to speculate that he could one day break the all-time record of 18 goals in a game.
The last player to reach the century mark in the regular season was the league's goal-kicking record-holder Tony Lockett and the list of players to have done so is a roll-call of the game's great forwards.

But Franklin said it was not an achievement he was focussed on.
"To be honest, I haven't really thought about that at all," he said.
"I'm just playing every game on its merits and just keep playing consistent football and if that comes, it comes."

The one query on his performance this season has been his shooting from goal, particularly over the past five or six rounds.
Friday night's showing in that department was again erratic, including some fine snaps and set shots from tight angles, but some easy misses from directly in front.

But Franklin said while he was constantly working on his kicking, he was not overly concerned providing he was contributing to Hawthorn wins.
"It doesn't really come into my head, if I'm kicking goals and points are still there and we're winning, I've got no problem with it," he said.

Likewise, Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson said to focus on some missed shots from goal would be overly picky, given what Franklin gave to the side.
"We're pleased with the contribution he makes for our footy club," Clarkson said.

"There's a lot of people out there that seem to be displeased with it, but we're pretty happy with the contribution that he makes.
"Maybe there might be an opportunity for the media to focus on the guys that can't get the footy, rather than the guy that can get the footy and then focus on the goal-kicking.

"The way that we look at it, he is a very very dangerous forward and what it's doing is opposition sides are starting to double-team him and that's going to create opportunities for other forwards in the side."
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With 4 more rounds until the finals-

Lance Franklin has 85.67 at 55.9% and Brendon Fevola 80.40 at 66.7%
 
Smith one short of a third ton

12th August 2008, 11:30 WST

Brad Smith has created a fair degree of interest in WA football for some time — and deservedly so.

And he was at it again on Saturday at Claremont Oval when his feats ensured the bulk of the healthy crowd remained until the final siren to see whether he could kick 100 goals in a season for the third time.

Considering he entered the match on 90, it illustrated just how dominant he and Subiaco were on an afternoon when the Tigers hoisted the white flag far too early for coach Roger Kerr’s liking.

Smith, who may well have been an AFL premiership player with West Coast had his knees not collapsed in successive years, kicked four goals in the last quarter to finish with 9.3, leaving him stranded on 99, as the Lions mauled Claremont 25.17 (167) to 4.12 (36).

Only something extremely unforseen will prevent Smith from reaching the milestone against Swan Districts at Steel Blue Oval next Saturday as the Lions march towards more premiership glory.

Yet there is no such certainty surrounding the availability of rugged recruit Daniel Chick, who was reported in the first quarter for a head-high bump on young Tigers defender Preston O’Keefe.

The incident led to O’Keefe being assisted from the ground, but he returned shortly after and was able to finish the match.

Chick, who has already been suspended this season, attacked each contest with his trademark ferocity and the Lions will be hoping he can avoid a suspension and gain some much-needed match fitness ahead of the finals campaign.

Chick’s report approaching time-on came when the contest was at its most fierce, the Tigers kicking the game’s opening two goals inside four minutes before the Lions began to claw their way back en route to doing what they wanted when they wanted.

Once Subiaco’s machine started rolling, courtesy of a dominant midfield and excellent work around the clearances, the class of forwards Smith, Blake Broadhurst and David Mapleston stretched the young Claremont defence.

Smith is not as explosive on the burst because of his dodgy knees and doesn’t have the same penetration with his kicking, but still torments his opponents with heady leads, a competitive instinct and accurate finishing. Tigers duo Simon Starling and Brandon Franz were unable to quell his brilliance.

Brad Smith reachs 100 in WAFL

18th August 2008, 10:15 WST

Most interest in Saturday’s clash between Subiaco and Swan Districts was around full-forward Brad Smith and when he would kick his 100th goal for the season.

The Lions spearhead had 99 before the match at Steel Blue Oval and it was supposedly a mere formality before he posted three figures.

There were even sweeps being held as to how many minutes of the first quarter it would take Smith to notch the milestone for the second consecutive year.

But a number of elements worked against him, mainly some tightchecking work from key defender David McKinlay and three points from four wayward attempts which delayed the moment until the fiveminute mark of the last quarter.

As the 29-year-old celebrated with teammates, the game, as it was throughout the first three quarters, was still up for grabs.

Smith’s accurate kick, which gave Subiaco a five-point lead, proved to be a turning point. They kicked eight of the last nine goals, which wasn’t an accurate indication of the hard-fought contest.

Subiaco swamped the young Swans in the last 20 minutes, out-scoring them 9.6 to 2.3 in the final stanza to record an emphatic 17.21 (123) to 9.19 (73) victory.

Smith, who finished with three goals, took six marks inside 50m and had four shots in the first quarter for a return of three points and one out-ofbounds on the full.

Critical of his early misses, Smith said it was pleasing to emerge with a win and three last-quarter goals.

“I wasn’t hitting them right and was a bit filthy,” Smith said. “It was a bit selfish because I just wanted to get the one (goal). But, more importantly, we weren’t travelling that well so there was extra incentive to kick a couple.

“I’m just happy that we won and it was a bit of a relief when I kicked it because all the Swannies boys were getting stuck into me and that was fair enough.”



DIGBY BEACHAM
 

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If Franklin gets less than six this week and Fev kicks a bag round 22 Carlton v Hawks will be interesting-

Blues, Hawks to look to alternative forwards

18th August 2008, 14:00 WST

Expect Hawthorn and Carlton to this weekend consider bypassing their main avenues to goal more despite boasting full-forwards closing in on centuries this AFL season.

A day after Carlton coach Brett Ratten conceded the Blues had to improve at using other scoring targets besides Brendan Fevola, Hawthorn captain Sam Mitchell admitted his side was too “Buddy conscious” of getting the ball to Lance Franklin.

The Hawk midfielders passed 17 times to Franklin in yesterday's game against Richmond, and that over-reliance, combined with his inaccurate 3.6 and the Tigers' zone defence and counter-attack, left Hawthorn lamenting a 29-point loss.

Hawthorn's preference to kick to Franklin was compounded by their virtual ignoring of Jarryd Roughead, whom they passed to once, and Mark Williams (six times).
“We try to have a bit more of an even balance, and normally we do, so hopefully we can keep that a little bit more even,” Mitchell said today.
“We probably don't use Mark Williams anywhere near enough as well.
“That's not a stat we'd like to see repeated.
“We're not going to win enough games of footy with stats like 17 and one.”

Franklin has booted 94 goals for the season and Fevola 90, and both have contributed more than 30 per cent of their side's goals this campaign.
But Ratten said after yesterday's loss to North Melbourne - despite six Fevola majors - that Carlton could not afford to continue passing almost exclusively to their full-forward.

He said the Blues would consider sending Fevola further up the ground in the coming games against the Brisbane Lions and Hawks in a bid to direct some attention to other forwards.

Mitchell denied Hawthorn were focused on helping Franklin reach three figures quickly, and instead had to use Roughead (59 goals), Williams (32) and Cyril Rioli (19) more to ensure they were not too reliant on their spearhead.
“We're a team-orientated team and he's (Franklin) doing the right thing,” he said.
“It's not his fault we're kicking it to him so much, it's our fault for making the wrong decisions going inside 50.

“Maybe we play him up the ground a little bit to try to take him out of that zone, to make us a little bit less Buddy conscious.
“It's something that we'll look to rectify this week.”

Hawthorn's loss yesterday was their third from their past five games and continued the lulls of the two sides destined to finish second and third, as the Western Bulldogs have also dropped four of their past five.
Mitchell said the Hawks had experienced a flat patch two thirds of the way through the season, but had no excuses for the loss to Richmond.

“We had our best side out there, and we just weren't good enough to get the points,” he said.
“So we're going to have to improve our form and individually we're going to have to get better if we're going to go all right in the finals.”
Hawthorn play West Coast at Subiaco Oval on Sunday.
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Hope both reach 100 in the same match round 22.

Fevola tips Buddy to be first to crack the ton

22nd August 2008, 7:45 WST

Carlton full-forward Brendan Fevola is tipping his Hawthorn rival Lance Franklin to be the first player to kick 100 goals this AFL season.

Franklin (94) and Fevola (90) are both closing in on their centuries with two games left in the home and away season, but the Blues spearhead expects the Hawk superstar to reach his ton against West Coast on Sunday.

Fevola, whose side plays the Brisbane Lions at the Gabba on Saturday night, is also keen for supporters to run on to the ground should he reach three figures.

“He'll get to the ton this week and good on him,” Fevola told the Nine Network tonight.
“Hopefully people do run out because I watched (Essendon's) Matthew Lloyd (in 2000-01) and (St Kilda's) Fraser Gehrig (in 2004) and when I was younger (Tony) Lockett and those sort of blokes have the fans run out.

“My old man's pretty keen to get out there, so I hopefully I can get there.”
The AFL is keen to stop the tradition of fans running on the ground if and when the players reach their centuries, in the interest of player safety.

Fevola took a light-hearted dig at Franklin's at-times stray kicking when asked if he kept track of the pair's head-to-head tussle.

“You look in the paper the next day and he gets 10 shots a week anyway, so he's bound to kick 2.8 or something like that,” he said.

“That was a joke.”

Fevola and Franklin could reach their centuries in the same game, as Hawthorn and Carlton play in round 22.
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24th August 2008, 18:30 WST


Lance Franklin will be waiting at least another week before cracking the magical ton after managing just four goals in Hawthorn’s 71-point AFL victory over West Coast today.

Franklin started the match needing six goals to become the first man since Tony Lockett in 1998 to reach triple figures in the regular season and Fraser Gehrig in 2004 including finals.

The 21-year-old appeared on track early with two first-quarter goals and a third eight minutes into the second quarter but, with Eagles skipper Darren Glass tailing his every move, Franklin managed just 1.4 from that point to finish the match with 4.5.

Franklin, whose season tally stands at 98.79, will have the chance to join Peter Hudson (five times) and Jason Dunstall (six times) as Hawks to have reached the ton when Hawthorn tackle Carlton at Melbourne’s Telstra Dome next Saturday night.

After leading by 21 points at half-time, the Hawks secured the 19.19 (133) to 9.8 (62) triumph with a blistering nine-goal third term highlighted by Franklin’s 50m goal from the boundary line.

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Franklins done it. Fev so close.

Ton of joy for Buddy but it’s agony for Fev
31st August 2008, 6:30 WST


Hawthorn star Lance Franklin reached his AFL ton last night as the Hawks tuned up for the finals with a 78-point whipping of Carlton at Telstra Dome.

Blues spearhead Brendan Fevola nearly made this a tale of two tons with seven goals in the second half but despite some desperate efforts he went one short of also reaching 100 goals for the season.


Franklin’s second goal at 25 minutes into the first quarter made him the first player since 1998 to kick 100 goals in the regular season as the Hawks won 24.15 (159) to 12.9 (81).

Excitement grew in the last term as Fevola closed on the century.

He kicked his seventh at 27 minutes but then gave away a free and with only seconds remaining, with four Hawks defenders stopped him going for a mark.

Franklin, arguably the game’s hottest star, finished with 4.5 for the game and 102 for the home-and-away season.

The Hawks will now meet the Western Bulldogs next weekend in a qualifying final.

With the game decided by half-time, the only remaining interest was whether Fevola could also reach triple figures.

Fevola started the night on 92 and if he had reached 100, it would have been the first time in AFL history that two players had passed the milestone in the same game.

Fevola’s first-half inaccuracy – four shots for two behinds, one out on the full and one shank that failed to make the distance – cost him.

He finished with 7.3 for the night and was a dejected figure at the final siren.

Team-mates were clearly trying to deliver the ball to Fevola in the final quarter.

Blues fans could not remember Fevola chasing defenders as hard as the pressure he put on Hawks opponents late in the game.

While the game had no bearing on the top eight, the anticipation surrounding “Buddy” Franklin and Fevola meant it attracted more than 49,000 fans.

Franklin’s 100 milestone sparked chaotic scenes as thousands of fans ran onto the ground, ignoring pre-match threats of fines and evictions.

Franklin and several other team-mates were quickly taken from the field, while other Carlton and Hawthorn players huddled in the midfield.

Play was held up for eight minutes until the fans left the field.

There were many more security staff than usual but there appeared to be no arrests.

The game finally resumed when Franklin emerged from the southern race, accompanied by another ovation.

Several security staff ran onto the field with him in case more fans tried to congratulate Franklin, but the game went ahead without further incident.

Tony Lockett, the AFL’s all-time leading goalkicker, was the last player to kick 100 in the regular season.

Franklin, 21, also became the first Hawk to reach the milestone since Jason Dunstall in 1996.

While play was stopped, fans held up banners saying “Buddylenko – You Beauty”, in reference to Carlton great Alex Jesaulenko, and “Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin – Coleman Medal 2008”.

Franklin is set to win his first Coleman Medal as the league’s top goalkicker for the season.
Franklin said he could not clearly remember the moments immediately after kicking his 100th goal and thanked team-mate Jarryd Roughead for keeping the fans away.

“To be honest, it was a little bit of a blur, I can’t really remember,” he said.
“It was good to get it out of the way in the first quarter and just worry about getting the win – it was awesome to get it out of the way.

“It was under control – ‘Roughy’ was blocking them, which was good, I will have to thank him, he’s a big boy.

“It would have been great for ‘Fev’ to get the 100 too, with the two of us it would have made history.”

Franklin went back into the Hawthorn change rooms once he left the field and admitted it was a special moment to run back up the race to another round of applause.

“It was really exciting, it’s a good part of the game, to kick a 100 and then run back on in front of everyone - really exciting,“ he said.

Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson pointed out Franklin is the first indigenous player in AFL history to reach the 100 milestone.

“Buddy kicking his 100th was a special achievement for him, the first indigenous player ever to so and it’s a fair effort when the game’s been going for over 100 years,” Clarkson said.

“We’re really pleased that’s been achieved now and we can really focus on going into September as deep as we possibly can.”

Carlton coach Brett Ratten felt for Fevola, saying: “You think how many times he’s hit the post during the season and even in today’s game, he hit the post early.

“It’s just a tremendous effort for him personally and I think you’ve seen the spirit of the team trying to get him over the line towards the end.

“To be one short, it was a double blow (because) we got absolutely smashed.”

But Ratten bit his tongue when asked about Hawthorn’s defensive pressure on Fevola as he drew close to the century.

As much as the Blues tried to set up goals for Fevola, the Hawks at times had three or even four men on him late in the match.

“There’s a bit of a romance – he’s played a lot of footy for Carlton, he’s won games off his own bat and if we could go out of our way to maybe see if we could get him there, for one quarter I think it’s fair enough,” Ratten said.

Asked about Hawks concentrating on Fevola, Ratten replied: “I suppose maybe we could have done that at the start (on Franklin), I suppose that’s the way he (Clarkson) has seen it.”

Pressed on the subject, Ratten said “they were only 70 points up”.

Ratten was then asked what he would have done in the same situation.

“I won’t answer that,” he said.
 
Excellent article- Source

Andrew Rule | August 31, 2008


THE betting was he'd do it in the second quarter. The betting was wrong — just. Buddy Franklin's 100th goal came at the 25th minute of the first quarter — less than four minutes after his 99th. After that he just relaxed and kicked a few more to celebrate. As you do when you're the first in a decade to boot a "ton" in the home and away season.

History does not record if Buddy Franklin is related to Benjamin Franklin — the wayward genius who, among other things, pioneered the use of electricity. But chances are that nothing the old Franklin did ever raised the roof quite the way his 21-year-old namesake did at Telstra Dome last night.

In fact, electricity is one thing the two Franklins have in common. It zapped through the crowd at the 25th minute mark of the first quarter, when Cyril Rioli — as small and neat as Franklin is not — shot a pass across to the star forward inside the 50-metre mark.

It was the sign the Hawthorn faithful had been waiting for for hours — or even months. Maybe even since the days of Jason Dunstall and, before that, the Hawks' legendary full forward Peter Hudson. They erupted with the pent-up anticipation that comes from queuing at 4pm to get into a game that starts after 7pm. They were there to see the money shot and this was it. Or was it?

Truth is, it looked too straightforward a kick for Franklin to be sure of nailing it. The angle was nothing to speak of — almost a disadvantage to a player whose, er, idiosyncratic kicking style means he favours left foot "banana kicks" from the boundary instead of those conventional drop punts and studied torpedoes used by the merely excellent among forwards.

But no problems. Despite the nerve-cracking pressure of the "easy" set shot, he banged it through the middle as if he could do it all day. It was the signal for hundreds of fans to vault the fence and sprint to the goal square to mob him, ignoring earnest threats of fines "up to $6000" spruiked by the arena announcer and flashed up on the giant screen for the previous hour.

The extra security guards and police around the perimeter had as much chance of stopping the jubilant crowd as they would a mob of stampeding buffalo. All they could do was try to protect Hawthorn's number 23 — then bustle him off the field into the relative safety of the changing rooms with some of his teammates.

It was an amazing scene, one not seen in a home and away season since Tony "Plugger" Lockett kicked a century in 1998. Once, when the game was played through full forwards, it happened far more often: 55 times in the 79 years since Collingwood's Gordon Coventry did it first in 1929.


As the AFL Record notes, "Franklin's path to 100 most resembles that of former Carlton superstar and recently inducted Australian Football Hall of Fame Legend Alex Jesaulenko." When "Jezza" scored his ton in round 22, 1970, it was his fourth season and his 77th game.

Uncannily, it was Franklin's 78th game and his fourth season. In Jesaulenko, he keeps good company. It was a point not lost on the fans: two of them unfurled a banner in the middle of the ground which read BUDDYLENKO — YOU BEAUTY!

Play was held up for eight minutes as police and men in fluorescent vests tried to herd fans from the ground. When Franklin eventually came back on, a dozen fluorescent vests followed him.

Meanwhile, the crowd made the most of it. A teenage girl posed near the centre square in front of a sign reading BUDDY 100, while a friend took her photograph.

But another story was also unfolding.

At the other end of the ground Carlton spearhead Brendan Fevola, starting with 92, set out to steal a bit of the younger man's glory. By the time he got to 99 in the dying moments of the game, the crowd was willing him on. Even some of the ones in brown and gold.

By then, the teenagers selling AFL Records were telling each other a story that will become football lore. They say that when Franklin went inside the players race he grabbed a mobile phone — and called his dear old mum. No wonder they say he brought Hollywood to Hawthorn.
 

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