Centurions AFL
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Goalkickers are the game's true rockstars, Damian Barrett speaks with the greatest ever forwards that made the turnstiles click, players who kicked big bags of big goals every single week. The legends of Australian rules football who have kicked 100 goals in a season.
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Centurions - Geoff Blethyn
Geoff Blethyn played 84 games with the Bombers through the late 1960's and 1970's, he would go onto kick 216 goals including the century in 1972.
Blethyn made his senior debut at just 17 years of age, in April of 1968 and played twice in the early part of the season. His third appearance in the Bombers senior side was the Grand Final against Carlton, replacing Alan Noonan on the half forward flank and standing the great Wes Lofts.
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Centurions - Warwick Capper
The man affectionately known as the Wiz played 124 games with the Swans and the Brisbane Bears, kicking 388 goals in that time. Including a century of goals in 1987.
On top of tight shorts and long-blonde hair that made Capper stood out amongst the rest, during the 1980’s he was one of the great high-flyers of the game in the Swans forward line and would regularly kick big bags of goals.
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Centurions - Larry Donohue
Larry Donohue may be one of the lesser known Centurions to the wider football community. But for fans of Geelong, he captured their hearts through the 1970's.
Donohue played 105 games for the Cats, finishing his career with 339 goals. In 1976 he bagged the ton, and in 1978 finished the season with 95. Post playing days he became a pub-owner, and his brother-in-law played off the fact that Donohue had the name, and the perfect slogan for the business.
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Centurions - Matthew Lloyd
Matthew Lloyd is the leading goalkicker in the history of the Essendon football club. 926 goals from 270 games, twice he kicked a century of goals. In the all-conquering Premiership year of 2000, and then followed it up in 2001.
Lloyd made the decision to retire at the end of the 2009 season, leaving the game 74 goals short of the magical 1,000 - But with no regrets.
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Centurions - Brian Taylor
Brian Taylor played 140 games of VFL football, 43 games for Richmond between 1980 and 1984 kicking 156 goals, and 97 games for Collingwood between 1985 and 1990 totalling 371 goals. The 100-goal season came in BT’s second season at Collingwood (1986), in the final home and away round for the year he needed two goals to reach the milestone. We've taken BT back to Waverley Park to talk about that magical moment.
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Centurions - Peter Hudson
Peter Hudson is arguably the greatest goalkicker the game has ever seen. Hudson was a tall beanpole from Tassie who carved out the most amazing career in front of goal. He played 129 games for Hawthorn and kicked 727 goals with a career average of 5.64 goals per game. He would reach the 100 goal milestone on 5 occasions and shares the record of 150 goals in a single season with Bob Pratt in 1971.
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