TOPIC:

wrote:

wrote:

Will we ever get a 100 goal kicker in the WAFL Swan42 or has footy changed too much? I don't see it happening again.

As you know I am unbiased. Imagine there was time when Max George, Mark Olsen, Simon Beasley, Brent Hutton and Austin Robertson, Gary Fathers, Todd Breman, Jason Heatley and Brad Smith actually existed.

I think SD and S might have had the best over the last 50 years or so.
LaH my immediate thought was I am more likely to break the 100m world record.  Personally, I can't see it happening.  There would have to be a drastic change in tactics adopted by the coaches and there is no indication that is likely.  Players seem more content to chip backwards and sidewards for a cheap stat rather than kicking to a contest.  How often during their playing career did we see one-on-one contests between Warren Ralph and Tom Mullooly?   That wouldn't happen these days?

and remember we had forward pockets/half forwards & rovers kicking 60 to 80 per year too mate

Indeed, Taylor kicked a hundred goals. In relation to the forwards, it depended a little bit on the standard of the full backs; 1981 saw big scores kicked, but no centurions in the goal kicking; Smith should have been picked in Subi's best ever team ahead of Pickett.

Fair call Ark but when picking our best ever team and therefore the best ever FF Smithy has to come up against the greatest FF in WAFL history in Ocker so despite being a Subi great Smithy will always be 2nd to Ocker.

Swan, not too sure if anyone has, I can only remember Liam Ryan kicked 73 in 2017 but I don't know if that includes finals.

ArkRoyal wrote:

Indeed, Taylor kicked a hundred goals. In relation to the forwards, it depended a little bit on the standard of the full backs; 1981 saw big scores kicked, but no centurions in the goal kicking; Smith should have been picked in Subi's best ever team ahead of Pickett.

AR in 1981 Warren Ralph CL (127 goals) & Simon Beasley SD (119 goals) both topped the century.

In addition to those 2 star full forwards you had the likes of-

Steve Malaxos CL (82 goals)
Bruce Monteath SF (78 goals)
Brad Hardie SF (75 goals)
Brett Farmer CL (67 goals)
Noel Carter SF (66 goals)
Brian Adamson WP (53 goals)
Mike Richardson SD (51 goals)
Doug Simms P (50 goals)
Phil Krakouer CL (50 goals)

.....all kicking over the 50 goal mark

Whilst the likes of-

Jim Krakouer CL (49 goals)
Jim Sewell EF (48 goals)
Grant Campbell EP (48 goals)
Ian Thomson EF (47 goals)

all only just missed the half century in 1981, but would still have all won the Bernie Naylor Medal in most of the recent seasons!

Not sure what this has to do with this weeks game.

we're probably hoping Perth's Haydn Busher comes out and bags 10 goals from full forward mate much like earlier times we've seen

Beasley Hutton wrote:

ArkRoyal wrote:

Indeed, Taylor kicked a hundred goals. In relation to the forwards, it depended a little bit on the standard of the full backs; 1981 saw big scores kicked, but no centurions in the goal kicking; Smith should have been picked in Subi's best ever team ahead of Pickett.
AR in 1981 Warren Ralph CL (127 goals) & Simon Beasley SD (119 goals) both topped the century.

In addition to those 2 star full forwards you had the likes of-

Steve Malaxos CL (82 goals)
Bruce Monteath SF (78 goals)
Brad Hardie SF (75 goals)
Brett Farmer CL (67 goals)
Noel Carter SF (66 goals)
Brian Adamson WP (53 goals)
Mike Richardson SD (51 goals)
Doug Simms P (50 goals)
Phil Krakouer CL (50 goals)

.....all kicking over the 50 goal mark

Whilst the likes of-

Jim Krakouer CL (49 goals)
Jim Sewell EF (48 goals)
Grant Campbell EP (48 goals)
Ian Thomson EF (47 goals)

all only just missed the half century in 1981, but would still have all won the Bernie Naylor Medal in most of the recent seasons!

bloody incredible breadth of goal numbers aren't they mate - what a year or three we had then , most of those blokes are club legends and still on highlight reels on places like youtube

wrote:

Will we ever get a 100 goal kicker in the WAFL Swan42 or has footy changed too much? I don't see it happening again.

As you know I am unbiased. Imagine there was time when Max George, Mark Olsen, Simon Beasley, Brent Hutton and Austin Robertson, Gary Fathers, Todd Breman, Jason Heatley and Brad Smith actually existed.

I think SD and S might have had the best over the last 50 years or so.

LH & 42 one of the great things I and all of my contempories at school looked forward to as a young WAFL footy fan was the full forwards from every club and who would reach the 100 goal mark during the particular season.
The likes of Warren Ralph, Simon Beasley, Paul Arnold, Ray Bauskis, Mark Olsen, Mick Rea, Ross Ditchburn, Peter Sumich, Brian Peake, Ian Thomson, Jim Sewell, Peter Bosustow, Murray Couper, Grant Campbell, John Scott, Clint Brown, Brent Hutton, Chris Stasinowsky, Doug Simms, Rod Alderton, Darren Bennett, Bruce Monteath, Jon Dorotich, Todd Breman, Clint Browning, Derek Kickett, Phil Krakouer, Jim Krakouer, Michael Mitchell, Steve Malaxos, Brad Hardie, Kevin Taylor, Ken Judge, Jeff Cassidy, Mike Richardson, Don Holmes, Kevin Caton, Garry Sidebottom, Noel Carter, Les Fong, Gary Buckenara, Andrew Macnish, Phil Bradmore, Wayne Otway, Benny Vigona, Allen Daniels, Rob Wiley, Ian Williams, Wayne Ryder, Leon Baker, Ken Marshall, Neil Lester-Smith, Craig Edwards, Andrew Lockyer, Stephen Sells, Warren Dean, Tony Buhagiar, Peter Spencer, Alan Johnson, Brian Taylor, Corry Bewick, Darren Bewick, Phil Narkle, Keith Narkle etc
were all capable of kicking bags of 7+ goals a game on any given day, nowadays teams struggle to kick that many or much more in 100 minutes of footy in a game.
Take me back to the good ol days of the 1980s and the goalkicking machines!

Southerner wrote:

Beasley Hutton wrote:

ArkRoyal wrote:

Indeed, Taylor kicked a hundred goals. In relation to the forwards, it depended a little bit on the standard of the full backs; 1981 saw big scores kicked, but no centurions in the goal kicking; Smith should have been picked in Subi's best ever team ahead of Pickett.
AR in 1981 Warren Ralph CL (127 goals) & Simon Beasley SD (119 goals) both topped the century.

In addition to those 2 star full forwards you had the likes of-

Steve Malaxos CL (82 goals)
Bruce Monteath SF (78 goals)
Brad Hardie SF (75 goals)
Brett Farmer CL (67 goals)
Noel Carter SF (66 goals)
Brian Adamson WP (53 goals)
Mike Richardson SD (51 goals)
Doug Simms P (50 goals)
Phil Krakouer CL (50 goals)

.....all kicking over the 50 goal mark

Whilst the likes of-

Jim Krakouer CL (49 goals)
Jim Sewell EF (48 goals)
Grant Campbell EP (48 goals)
Ian Thomson EF (47 goals)

all only just missed the half century in 1981, but would still have all won the Bernie Naylor Medal in most of the recent seasons!

bloody incredible breadth of goal numbers aren't they mate - what a year or three we had then , most of those blokes are club legends and still on highlight reels on places like youtube

Mate I used to jump out of bed on a Saturday morning in great anticipation of seeing a WAFL player kick a bagful (10 goals in a game) as a young tacker back in the early 1980s, now most teams (mine especially) cant even manage that very sadly!