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Our top 5 goal-kickers for 2019
Pretty simple - predict our top 5 goal kickers for 2019.
FWIW our 2018 top 5 was as follows:
Billy Gowers 26
Marcus Bontempelli 22
Mitchell Wallis 20
Josh Schache 17
Patrick Lipinski 12
I'm making wild guesses:
Gowers
Schache
Wallis
Bonti
Lloyd
Dickson is the wildcard - if he stays fit he could be anywhere on that list, I'm just not sure he does stay fit.
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Re: Our top 5 goal-kickers for 2019
Gowers 36
Wallis 31
Bont 25
Dickson 23
Schache 22
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Re: Our top 5 goal-kickers for 2019
Schache 31
Dickson 29
Bontempelli 26
Gowers 24
Then throw a blanket over Richards, Wallis, Suckling, McLean and Dunkley for 5th.
If we can have our top dozen hit double figures it'd help mitigate those low top end totals.
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Re: Our top 5 goal-kickers for 2019
Originally Posted by
Rocket Science
If we can have our top dozen hit double figures it'd help mitigate those low top end totals.
In addition to our top 5 from 2018, only two other players hit double figures - Dunkley & McLean (both with 11 goals).
Dickson and Greene (8 from 8 and 5 from 5) were the only players outside the top 7 to kick a goal per game.
Western Bulldogs: 2016 Premiers
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Re: Our top 5 goal-kickers for 2019
This is difficult and thinking about it makes you wonder where our goals will come from. For us to improve it will need to be an even spread amongst our top 5/6 goal kickers.
Dickson 36
Schache 34
Gowers 32
Dale 28
Wallis 26
Throw in the likes of Bont, Dunks, McLean to also kick double figures then we have a very good spread.
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Re: Our top 5 goal-kickers for 2019
Dickson
Gowers
Schache
Greene
Bontempelli
I think that the new 6 on 6 will help Dickson and Greene so much and the likes on Bont and McCrae hitting the natural leads lace out.
I love Wallis but with this new rule I can see Greene getting off the chain and pushing him out of the forward 50
BB.
Looking forward - Naughton, Darcy and JUH. It will be the envy of everyone.
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Re: Our top 5 goal-kickers for 2019
It'd be terrific if we could get:
40 goals from Shache
25+ Gowers
And 150+ combined goals from Bont, Wallis, Libba, Dunkley, Lloyd, McLean, Dale, Dickson, Williams
Goals are an important part of footy. I often tell my ice hockey team that should we score more goals than the opposition in the allocated time for play, we should win the game. I believe the same applies for footy.
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Re: Our top 5 goal-kickers for 2019
40 goals means Schache is 16th on the goalkickers list going by 2018 results. It's a difficult to kick multiple goals in the modern era.
Western Bulldogs: 2016 Premiers
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Re: Our top 5 goal-kickers for 2019
Originally Posted by
Mofra
40 goals means Schache is 16th on the goalkickers list going by 2018 results. It's a difficult to kick multiple goals in the modern era.
16th isn't so high I couldn't buy it happening.
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Re: Our top 5 goal-kickers for 2019
Originally Posted by
hujsh
16th isn't so high I couldn't buy it happening.
Well in other terms - that's 54% increase on our 2018 highest goal kicking total. 40 is a lot in modern football.
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Re: Our top 5 goal-kickers for 2019
Originally Posted by
Mofra
Well in other terms - that's 54% increase on our 2018 highest goal kicking total. 40 is a lot in modern football.
That's one way to look at it. Another is that Schache kicked 17 goals in 13 games, extrapolated that becomes 28.6 if he plays 22.
To reach 40 he only needs another 12. 6 through natural progress and 6 from the team improving and kicking more goals/not having goalless halves would be all it takes.
I agree it wouldn't be easy and likely won't happen but assuming we aren't rubbish this year it's certainly not outside the realm of possibility.
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Re: Our top 5 goal-kickers for 2019
Originally Posted by
hujsh
16th isn't so high I couldn't buy it happening.
The bloke we didn't pick for our pre-season games kicks 40? I think Schache will do fine, but that's a lot of goals particularly for a bloke who is still green and will be expected to do a lot of work upfield with his running.
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Re: Our top 5 goal-kickers for 2019
Originally Posted by
Go_Dogs
The bloke we didn't pick for our pre-season games kicks 40? I think Schache will do fine, but that's a lot of goals particularly for a bloke who is still green and will be expected to do a lot of work upfield with his running.
Well we didn't pick him in the one game in pretty bad conditions for a tall forward. I personally wouldn't read too much into it. Let's see how he goes Sunday.
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Re: Our top 5 goal-kickers for 2019
My crack at our top 5:-
Gowers
Dickson
Bontempelli
Wallis
Schache
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Re: Our top 5 goal-kickers for 2019
Sam Lloyd
Dickson
Gowers
Marcus
Schache
If he plays and is fit, Dicko should be able to bag a few.
Last edited by Ghost Dog; 17-03-2019 at 12:20 PM.
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