Cornes' top 10 toughest players
- Campbell Brown (Hawthorn/Gold Coast)
- Damien Hardwick (Essendon/Port Adelaide)
- Adrian Hickmott (Geelong/Carlton)
- Josh Carr (Port Adelaide/Fremantle)
- Mark Ricciuto (Adelaide)
- Michael Voss (Brisbane)
- Glenn Archer (North Melbourne)
- Michael Wilson (Port Adelaide)
Essendon of 2000 were the best premiership team of this millennium. To only lose one game during the season and to win the grand final by 60 points gives an indication of their dominance.
Brendon Goddard has urged North Melbourne spearhead Ben Brown to stop staging for free kicks as statistics show he is the league's most rewarded key forward. Since Round 1 last season Brown has been paid 58 free kicks, nine more than any other key forward in the competition.
Highest and lowest scores
| Highest | | |
| Rank | Score | Club |
|---|
| 1 | 37.17.239 | Geelong |
| 2 | 36.22.238 | Fitzroy |
| 3 | 36.20.236 | Sydney |
AFL/VFL Records
| Record | Current holder |
|---|
| Lowest Score by a Team | St Kilda 0.1 (1) against Geelong 23.24 (162) at Corio Oval Round 17 1899. Joe McShane scored 11 goals, to become the first ever player to score 10 or more in a match. |
Every AFL Club's Fastest Player
- There's plenty of speed kings in the AFL. North Melbourne big man Majak Daw is still leading the way as the AFL's fastest player this season, clocking a massive 35.6 km/h back in round three.
- Adelaide. Rory Atkins - 33.1 km/h.
- Brisbane. Lewis Taylor - 35.5 km/h.
- Carlton.
- Collingwood.
- Essendon.
- Fremantle.
- Geelong.
Reigning AFL Premiers West Coast Eagles had the biggest increase lifting their support base by a huge 186,000 (+34%) to 733,000 to be Australia's second most widely supported AFL club.
| West Coast Eagles |
|---|
| % of supporters who are members | 12.3% |
|---|
| Roy Morgan Supporter Numbers | 733,000 |
|---|
| Official 2019 AFL Club Memberships* | 90,445 |
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Hit the woodwork: a kick for goal which hits one of the posts. Hit-out: the ruck contest, usually in the center circle to start the game or quarters and after a goal is scored. Hit-out to advantage refers to a contest in which the ruckman gets the ball to a teammate.
Collingwood have played in the most Grand Finals. Essendon and Carlton have been premiers 16 times, Collingwood 15. Only one team have won four consecutive grand finals, Collingwood in 1927, 1928, 1929 and 1930. Hawthorn won their third straight grand final in 2015, making a total of 13 grand final wins for them.
No player has kicked 100 goals in a season since Lance Franklin in 2008.
Legends
| 1996, Legends |
|---|
| Inductee | Year elevated | Games |
|---|
| Malcolm Blight | 2017 | 342 Games Woodville (164) North Melbourne (178) |
| Haydn Bunton Sr. | 1996 | 208 Games Fitzroy (119) Subiaco (72) Port Adelaide (17) |
| Barry Cable | 2012 | 382 Games Perth (225) North Melbourne (115) East Perth (42) |
Who has kicked the most behinds in the history of the AFL? Kevin Bartlett with 781. Buddy Franklin on 677 a smokey to catch Bartlett. Needs only 104 more, and averages 2.2 a game.
Mitchell notched up disposal number 38 at the 10-minute mark of the fourth term against Carlton, then making it 749 disposals for the season. It knocks off the previous record of 748, set by Collingwood's Wayne Richardson way back in 1971. And he's done it with one whole game in hand.
