Footballs have been flying through the big sticks to start off the new country footy season, with forwards across the league kicking big bags.
Twenty-one players have kicked five goals or more in a game so far.
Tongala’s Darren Ewing started the year off strong, booting 13 goals in the Blues’ round-one win over Echuca United.
Ewing’s baker’s dozen are the most goals kicked in a game so far this season across the MFNL, GVFNL, PDFNL and HDFNL.
Todd Gallagher from the Deni Rams was hot in round one, too, kicking 10 of his side’s 19 goals against Barooga.
Moama Magpie Stuart Taylor is the other player to kick double-digit goals in a game this season, slotting 10 through the big sticks against Nathalia in round two of the MFL.
In the PDFNL, Charlie Burrows from Waaia and Stathmerton’s Timothy Looby kicked bags of nine in their sides’ win last weekend.
Looby’s nine majors helped the Bulldogs top Katandra, while Burrows’ haul came in Waaia’s 255-point demolition of Mathoura.
Eight was great for Katunga’s Fergus Lappin and Cam Sudholz from Rennie, with each player slotting home eight goals this season — Lappin doing so last weekend in Katunga’s win over Blighty and Sudholz in the Grasshoppers’ round-one win over the Timbercutters.
Seven was the lucky number for Katamatite’s Samuel Wright when he kicked seven majors for the Tigers in their 79-point win over Jerilderie last Saturday.
Five players have had six-goal hauls, with LBU’s Anthony McMahon, Rennie’s Ben Coghill, Darcy Pridham-McCormack from Cobram, Waaia’s Jayden Clarke and Congupna’s Jak Trewin all snagging six this season.
There have been plenty of five-goal bags this season, too, with eight players hitting that target.
Rory Kirkby from Echuca, Cobram’s Matthew DeMaio, Nathan Rachele from the Shepparton Swans, Katunga’s Braydon Kearns, Luke Smith from Katandra, Jeridlerie’s Mitchell Conland and Waaia’s Jesse Trower have all accomplished the feat.