List analysis: Which club has the most goalkicking firepower? (afl site)

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List analysis: Which club has the most goalkicking firepower?

By Dejan Kalinic
afl.com.au
11 February 2023

BRISBANE is the standout club when it comes to goalkicking firepower ahead of the 2023 season.

The depth of attacking options at the Lions was underlined last season by the eight players they had who kicked 20 or more goals, three more than any other team in the competition (Sydney, Collingwood and Fremantle each had five).




Most goals: Jack Riewoldt (755)

Players with 100-plus career goals: 6 (Jack Riewoldt, Tom Lynch, Dustin Martin, Trent Cotchin, Jason Castagna, Shai Bolton)

Players with 50-plus goal seasons: 2 (Jack Riewoldt - 9, Tom Lynch - 3)

Leading goalkicker in 2022: Tom Lynch (63)

Average goals kicked in 2022: 14.5 (most)

Players with 20-plus goals in 2022: 3 (Tom Lynch, Shai Bolton, Jack Riewoldt)



No. of players with 100-plus career goals

Brisbane, Collingwood   8
Geelong   7
Greater Western Sydney, Richmond, Sydney   6
Melbourne, Port Adelaide, St Kilda, West Coast, Western Bulldogs   5
Carlton, North Melbourne   4
Essendon, Fremantle, Gold Coast   3
Adelaide, Hawthorn   2
 

No. of players who have kicked 50-plus goals in a season

Brisbane, Geelong, Melbourne   3
Carlton, Essendon, Hawthorn, Richmond, Western Bulldogs   2
Adelaide, St Kilda, Sydney, West Coast   1
Collingwood, Fremantle, Gold Coast, Greater Western Sydney, North Melbourne, Port Adelaide   0
 

Average goals kicked in 2022

Richmond   14.5
Geelong   14.4
Brisbane   14.2
Sydney   13.4
Western Bulldogs   12.8
Melbourne   12.5
Gold Coast   12.3
Carlton   12.2
Collingwood   12.1
Hawthorn, Port Adelaide   11.9
Adelaide, Essendon, Fremantle   11.3
St Kilda   11.2
Greater Western Sydney   10.8
West Coast   9.6
North Melbourne   8.8

https://www.afl.com.au/news/873553/list-analysis-which-club-has-the-most-goalkicking-firepower-

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Not sure where to put this but Daniel Menzel on SEN has 3 Tigers in his "perfect" AFL forward line.


See a snapshot of Menzel’s forward line (plus a seventh) below:

HFF: Shai Bolton
CHF: Jeremy Cameron
HFF: Toby Greene
FP: Isaac Heeney
FF: Tom Lynch
FP: Charlie Cameron
7th: Dustin Martin

Half-forward flanks
Toby Greene (GWS) and Shai Bolton (Richmond)

“On the other half-forward flank I found it a bit tougher, but I’ve gone with Shai Bolton.

“He was fourth last year in score involvements and he doesn’t need many touches to dominate and tear apart a game.

“If you watch him it’s like, ‘Wow, everything he does has such an impact on the game’.

“That’s why I’ve got him in there.”

Unlucky omission: Bayley Fritsch

Centre half-forward
Jeremy Cameron (Geelong)

Forward pockets
Isaac Heeney (Sydney) and Charlie Cameron (Brisbane)

Full-forward
Tom Lynch (Richmond)

“At full-forward I’ve got Tom Lynch.

“I just think he marks the ball in a contested situation as well as anyone in the comp.

“When he’s up and going, he’s kicking you eight goals a game.”

Unlucky omission: Tom Hawkins.

Bench
Dustin Martin (Richmond)

“On the bench I thought, ‘Who is the impact player you want?’.

“I wanted a player who could come in and say an opposition defender wouldn’t want to play on.

“I’ve named Dustin Martin as my seventh forward, at this stage of his career right now if you put him in the forward line and let him roam around, when you put him in the goal square it’d make every defender in the competition nervous.”

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2023/02/15/daniel-menzel-builds-his-perfect-afl-forward-line/