Place your bets: who will finish on top of our goal-kicking tally in 2021?

[Headless]

So stats after the first six rounds:

• Bayley Fritsch (12)
• Kysaiah Pickett (11)
• Tom McDonald (9)
• Christian Petracca (8)
• Ed Langdon (6)
• Alex Neal-Bullen (5)
• Max Gawn (4)
• Jake Melksham (4)
• Luke Jackson (4)
• Charlie Spargo (3)

Talking points:

• Fristch has missed a game, so if these stats are correct, has kicked 12 goals from 5 games. How many will he finish with?
• Will B Brown and Weideman get back in? If so, when? Are they a genuine chance at clinching the goal-kicking award even after missing six rounds?
• How many players will end up with 20+ goals? In 2020, our leaders were Fristsch (22), Weideman (19), and then Petracca and Melksham (15) - admittedly in a shorter season.

Thoughts?

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

Based on the way Tex is going, Brown could get there with 10-12 games

 

[CWaffles]

I'm going to go with Slick, I think once Brown/Weid comes back in Slick will be the one that benefits the most from it, going to go out on a limb here and say he kicks a big bag of about 8 goals at some stage during the season.

 

[00Stinger]

if Brown comes in this week I would back him to win it tbh

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

What odds is headlessbet.com giving us in each?

 

[Headless]

What odds is headlessbet.com giving us in each?

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[A11dAtP0w3R]

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[adonski]

BBB will kick 8 this week

 

[ImissFrosty]

Slick Fritsch easy

 

[Demon 16]

I reckon Brown will get it.

He’ll be good for 3 goals a game and will probably have a couple of big ones when we play bottom sides.

 

[schmuttt]

Fritsch.

 

[Crimson Azure]

May.

 

[Headless]

After Round 7:

• Bayley Fritsch (18)
• Kysaiah Pickett (14)
• Tom McDonald (9)
• Christian Petracca (8)
• Ed Langdon (7)
• Alex Neal-Bullen (5)
• Max Gawn (4)
• Jake Melksham (4)
• Luke Jackson (4)
• Charlie Spargo (4)
• James Jordon (3)
• Jack Viney (2)
• Ben Brown (2)
• Mitch Brown (2)
• Nathan Jones (2)
• Tom Sparrow (1)
• Clayton Oliver (1)
• Angus Brayshaw (1)
• James Harmes (1)
• Christian Salem (1)

Gee, hard to go past Fritsch at this stage.

 

[Scythe94]

After Round 7:

• Bayley Fritsch (18)
• Kysaiah Pickett (14)
• Tom McDonald (9)
• Christian Petracca (8)
• Ed Langdon (7)
• Alex Neal-Bullen (5)
• Max Gawn (4)
• Jake Melksham (4)
• Luke Jackson (4)
• Charlie Spargo (4)
• James Jordon (3)
• Jack Viney (2)
• Ben Brown (2)
• Mitch Brown (2)
• Nathan Jones (2)
• Tom Sparrow (1)
• Clayton Oliver (1)
• Angus Brayshaw (1)
• James Harmes (1)
• Christian Salem (1)

Gee, hard to go past Fritsch at this stage.

Calculating goals per game average so far, and presuming each player plays the remainder of the H&A games, we'd have the following as the top 5:

1. Fritsch (63)
2. Pickett (44)
3. B Brown (32)
4. McDonald (26)
5. Petracca (25)

Expect Fritsch and Pickett to drop off a bit, and Brown to pick up some ground.

 

[netslave]

Gotta be Fritta, BB will start to kick some more goals but he'll also allow Fritta to get free a bit and slot more himself.

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

That’s why they call him ‘Club Leading Goalkicker Fritsch’

 

[Headless]

After Round 8:

• Bayley Fristch (18)
• Kysaiah Pickett (14)
• Tom McDonald (13)
• Christian Petracca (9)
• Ed Langdon (7)
• Alex Neal-Bullen (5)
• Ben Brown (5)
• Jake Melksham (5)
• Charlie Spargo (5)
• Max Gawn (4)
• Luke Jackson (4)
• James Jordon (3)
• Jack Viney (2)
• Mitch Brown (2)
• Nathan Jones (2)
• Tom Sparrow (1)
• Clayton Oliver (1)
• Angus Brayshaw (1)
• James Harmes (1)
• Christian Salem (1)

 

[Scythe94]

After Round 8:

• Bayley Fristch (18)
• Kysaiah Pickett (14)
• Tom McDonald (13)
• Christian Petracca (9)
• Ed Langdon (7)
• Alex Neal-Bullen (5)
• Ben Brown (5)
• Jake Melksham (5)
• Charlie Spargo (5)
• Max Gawn (4)
• Luke Jackson (4)
• James Jordon (3)
• Jack Viney (2)
• Mitch Brown (2)
• Nathan Jones (2)
• Tom Sparrow (1)
• Clayton Oliver (1)
• Angus Brayshaw (1)
• James Harmes (1)
• Christian Salem (1)

Revised top five if current goals per game averages continue:

1. Fritsch (54)
2. Brown (40)
3. Pickett (39)
4. McDonald (36)
5. Petracca (25)

 

[Headless]

Revised top five if current goals per game averages continue:

1. Fritsch (54)
2. Brown (40)
3. Pickett (39)
4. McDonald (36)
5. Petracca (25)

Would be interesting to graph this across the year.

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

After Round 8:

• Bayley Fristch (18)
• Kysaiah Pickett (14)
• Tom McDonald (13)
• Christian Petracca (9)
• Ed Langdon (7)
• Alex Neal-Bullen (5)
• Ben Brown (5)
• Jake Melksham (5)
• Charlie Spargo (5)
• Max Gawn (4)
• Luke Jackson (4)
• James Jordon (3)
• Jack Viney (2)
• Mitch Brown (2)
• Nathan Jones (2)
• Tom Sparrow (1)
• Clayton Oliver (1)
• Angus Brayshaw (1)
• James Harmes (1)
• Christian Salem (1)

Trac being a genuine goal a game midfielder (as opposed to only playing partly in the middle) is one of the most critical things here for mine. Would like to see Oliver kick more goals. Sparrow and Jordon both have the capacity to kick a few more as well - Jordon from range and Sparrow as a leading/deep forward

 

[LeverPuller]

I’m going to go with BBB. Think he will average 3 a game which will put him on about 48 - that said I think it’ll be close

 

[pjfairbairn]

After Round 8:

• Bayley Fristch (18)
• Kysaiah Pickett (14)
• Tom McDonald (13)
• Christian Petracca (9)
• Ed Langdon (7)
• Alex Neal-Bullen (5)
• Ben Brown (5)
• Jake Melksham (5)
• Charlie Spargo (5)
• Max Gawn (4)
• Luke Jackson (4)
• James Jordon (3)
• Jack Viney (2)
• Mitch Brown (2)
• Nathan Jones (2)
• Tom Sparrow (1)
• Clayton Oliver (1)
• Angus Brayshaw (1)
• James Harmes (1)
• Christian Salem (1)

*Sam Weidemann (0)

 

[Headless]

After Round 9:

• Bayley Fritsch (21)
• Tom McDonald (16)
• Kysaiah Pickett (15)
• Christian Petracca (9)
• Ed Langdon (8)
• Alex Neal-Bullen (7)
• Charlie Spargo (6)
• Ben Brown (5)
• Jake Melksham (5)
• Max Gawn (4)
• Luke Jackson (4)
• James Jordon (3)
• Clayton Oliver (2)
• Jack Viney (2)
• Mitch Brown (2)
• Nathan Jones (2)
• Tom Sparrow (1)
• Jayden Hunt (1)
• Angus Brayshaw (1)
• James Harmes (1)
• Christian Salem (1)

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

Two horse race.

Still on the Slick train. Particularly now it appears he's sorted out the set shots.

 

[SugarHealey]

TMc, I reckon. will end up 'the highest', in goal kicking, the bluey, and in the fowardline.