@huddome Good question. It's hard to nominate one player. I'll say that Gordon Coventry was Collingwood's best full forward of all time. A worthy second place to John Coleman in the pantheon of full forwards.
That's how AFL is scored. A goal is when the ball is kicked between the two big posts and is worth 6 points. A behind is when the ball is either kicked between the big post and the small post or when it is not kicked through the big posts. . That is worth only one point. So an AFL score will show how many goals a team has kicked and how many behinds they have kicked for a combined score. So in the example 13 goals (worth 6 points each) and 12 behinds (worth one point each) combines to a score of 90. (13×6) +(12×1) =90 For Essendon 8 - 10 - 58 (8×6)+(10×1) = 58. I hope that's clear.
@@fishjj76 I get all of that (Australian), but you spelled it out well for people who don't. But the caption has the wrong scores for the 1965 Grand Final. St Kilda didn't beat Essendon all that year 🙂
A true great of the game. Good enough to have been a star with Collingwood.
The best player from essendon. Ever .
Who's Collingwoods best player?
@huddome Good question. It's hard to nominate one player. I'll say that Gordon Coventry was Collingwood's best full forward of all time. A worthy second place to John Coleman in the pantheon of full forwards.
Have a look at the scores at 21:33
StK 13 12 90
Ess 8 10 58
What's all that about ?
That's how AFL is scored. A goal is when the ball is kicked between the two big posts and is worth 6 points. A behind is when the ball is either kicked between the big post and the small post or when it is not kicked through the big posts. . That is worth only one point.
So an AFL score will show how many goals a team has kicked and how many behinds they have kicked for a combined score.
So in the example 13 goals (worth 6 points each) and 12 behinds (worth one point each) combines to a score of 90. (13×6) +(12×1) =90
For Essendon 8 - 10 - 58 (8×6)+(10×1) = 58.
I hope that's clear.
@@fishjj76 I get all of that (Australian), but you spelled it out well for people who don't.
But the caption has the wrong scores for the 1965 Grand Final. St Kilda didn't beat Essendon all that year 🙂
@@twentyrothmans7308 Funnily enough those are the scores at the end of the 1962 Grand Final except Essendon were 13-12-90 to Carlton 8-10-58.
@@fishjj76 Now I'm really confused!
Perhaps @FootyLover was trying to see if we were paying attention.