Daniel Wells From 89 Metres
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- It's a well-known fact that Malcolm Blight kicked the longest goal in VFL/AFL history - except it's not true. He hasn't even recorded the longest goal by a North Melbourne player - the man who currently holds both records is a small forward, who kicked it by accident. Very few people know it - but the Gaz-man wants to change that. In this video, the GAZ-man goes over the history of the longest goals in footy, and breaks down just how a man most famous for a goal scored from three metres out managed to drive a long one home, From 89 Metres.
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I think what made Blights's look bigger is that it was a lot more powerful and was in the air well after the goals whereas all the others were dribbling bounces
Absolutely, I'd agree. Malcolm got a huge amount of hang time on his torp, and that thing went higher than most I've seen.
If he kicks that flatter, it goes well over 80m imo
Blight's kick was goal side of the centre square. The Carlton ground was lengthened when the outer grandstand was built sometime after this kick. Before the ground was lengthened, the 50 metre arc, when it was introduced, was a lot closer to the square. I'm sure it would have been the longest kick if he had been further out as the ball was above the goal posts and then into the crowd. I was there, It was an important kick, but not that long to the goal line.
Jezza's left foot goal in the 70 GF to seal the game must be up there with the longest goal on the non preferred side. Now that would give you something to research. LOL
With all the stories of long kicks in the comments here, I'm actually putting together a list to publish
About time we all had a single place with all the big kicks listed
And blights was after the siren to win a prelim.
Blights goal will always be the best because it easily cleared the line and didnt requir a bounce
Might not have been the longest, but one of the mightiest for sure. Looked so powerful.
I was there , people were crying it was so epic, it sailed over my head and it may have been 76 out but the ball went through over post high and and over my head 15 rows back.
It traveled 90mts + kicked to perfection spun like a true spiral and the games outcome depended on it,,, and thats why it's the longest and greatest vfl/ afl goal of all time
Felt like I was watching a Secret Base video. Great Vid!
Thanks! Jon Bois has been my main inspiration for all this so that probably explains a lot haha
I love learning about these unsung heroes like Wells.
Really great player to watch in his prime, shame injuries got him towards the end
We will never know all the goals from all competitions saw Comerford for West Perth kick an absolute monster at Fremantle oval it would be right up there too. But I can't imagine any goal being greater than Blights seeing it live on TV with goosebumps and given the moment this is the greatest bomb of all time.
True, no other long bomb has had the entire game on the line like Blighty's.
Would have been awesome if all the state leagues had been able to keep verified records of this sort of thing, like the NFL with field goal tries.
I remember looking this up after you mentioned it in the St Kilda video and my initial reaction was just as unimpressed as everyone at the ground that day- I wonder if in the time the ball had been bouncing people had forgotten just how far back he was when he actually kicked it. I reckon this goal would've been much better remembered if it was a North home game with the crowd getting into it.
Absolutely agree, especially after what Dennis said in commentary.
Away crowd and both teams being bang average that year didn't help, either.
Great story. You give us North supporters bragging rights at a time the Roos are struggling & Well’s bomb will forever live on TH-cam if not in the minds of the footy faithful.
I guess you could say Daniel’s
kick was ‘Well’s Fargo’
Wells Fargo 🤣🤣
North will turn things around sooner or later. I'll be doing a series on North’s history next year actually, so look out for that!
I was also at that game, I'm a crows fan but i remember being impressed at how long that goal was at the time, but i still i had no idea it was the longest goal in AFL history
You have inspired me a lot alongside other AFL TH-camrs. I’ve made a Fitzroy doco a while ago and now a gold coast doco 2 parter. Might even do some more. Thanks for the inspiration. ❤
Thanks, that means a lot! Will certainly check out your docos - and hey, if you're having fun with making them, keep at it!
The record should be given to Wells, but I guess it's forgetten because it bounced for, say, 25 metres. Blight's went through above goalpost height, and Fehrig's fell short by
Something I should have established is that these kicks are measured from the kick to the goalmouth or the first bounce of the ball, whichever is longer.
Blight’s 76m kick was taken probably 60m from goal, some 29m shy of Wells' field position. For me, this makes Fehring’s kick all the nore incredible considering where he was on the field.
Also by this logic, 2 of the 4 goals scored from furthest away were against the Crows, which is a very Crows thing to have happened.
@@thegaz-man That makes a lot more sense now. Thanks for clearing that up
Damon White who played for Port Adelaide kicked a 100 metre goal from inside the centre square/centre bounce area of Adelaide Oval in the SANFL playing for North Adelaide ironically against Port Adelaide Magpies in 2004. Used to be on TH-cam but went searching for it recently and can’t find the video anywhere 😢
Damn, wish the vid was still up! I'm tempted to ask around the leagues and see if they have footage of any lesser known big bombs
Awesome video mate. love these short ones about a single event!
Thanks! For the rest of the year, I'll be focussing more on this shorter-form type of video so hope you enjoy those!
Awesome vid! Cody Leggett has the longest goal in WAFL history with a 92m bomb in 2018, very similar to Wills' and just as thrilling
Nice, always good to see WA footy getting a shout out! Please tell me there's video of it!
@@thegaz-man Absolutely: th-cam.com/video/4C2_myxcF2I/w-d-xo.html
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A 1981 match between Collingwood and St. Kilda saw an 89m goal kicked by Jeff Fehring of St. Kilda, minutes after he was reported. He received a free kick and torpedoed an 86m kick, which bounced an extra three metres for a goal. It was one of only three of Fehring's goals
It was actually his last goal, too!
I'm using Useless AFL Stats' numbers for this one (link in description if I remembered to put it there). They measured 84.6, which seems highly accurate considering ground dimensions and where Fehring was.
Out of a post goal ruck contest at Princes Park in the early '80s, Michael Tuck swung onto a kick after the ball landed in his hands at the defensive side of the centre circle(the little circle, not the monster centre circle of today). He didn't take a step, he literally just swung his body in a circle and dropped it to his boot. The ball at least was kicked foward for the Hawks and Lethal and co followed the mongrel spinning Sherrin towards the forward pocket. The mass of fwd/def players all shifted out left in a posse as the ball then began to swing back towards the goal. As this ball was a floater and had been kicked very high in the uncontrolled manner In the mess of the centre contest....Tuck by now was himself trackong the ball inside 50 and had begun to thriw his arms in the air. The Hawks crowd watched in a mix of stun and celebration as this ball swung alk the way back to bounce inpkay just before the goal line and straight over after the bounce. Leigh went to Tucky who was in cheeky celebration mode and gave him a littke push and shove(all in jest) as payback for making him run feom full firward to the fwd pocket and back.
It still is the greatest kick I've ever seen. Tuck had no momentum ither than his body weight turning him. He knew perfectly when to drop that footy amd he knew, running fwd of centre that it would score a goal. It was surreal. The crowd didn't know what to do. The goal umpire signakled a goal as clearly no one had touched it since it left Tuck's boot but he hadn't seen it leave Tuck's boot. The umpire confirmed a clean kick and the fkags were finally waved and the entire ground realised how amazing a goal Tuck had kicked.
I remember waitong tonread about this sensational goal in the newspapers, hear about it on the radio post game commentary. Did I see footage of it on the 'replay/highlights' that evening? No. I've tried to figure out which game it was, the exact season but considering I'm now 49 and so many other things have hapoened since then.....I cannot recall everything perfectly. What I do recall perfectly was Michael Tuck's goal from back of centre. The mongrel floater that could and did. This is where American sports fans have so much footage to fall back on. Every local NFL/NBA/NHL team had a local station filming the local sides games. We had channel 7 choosing games, setting fixture and stuffing up things for future generations looking for factual evidence of these feats of magnificence. Jon Bois and Alex Rubenstein have it easy. Kidding, their research is supreme.
I feel that, the SANFL had exactly the same problem - only one game televised per week, and very little publicly available footage. It's such a shame we miss gems like Tuck's goal, which sounds like something he was absolutely capable of - the lad had ridiculous power for a wiry bloke.
Wish I had the amount of game footage the Dorktown boys did haha
Great video, glad you're celebrating Daniel Wells who was a really underrated player both during his career and since his retirement. But calling him a small forward who was known for work in close, well, it sounds like you only know him from the jackie chan goal. North supporters absolutely know him as a booming kick, it was almost his signature, and he played the best years of his career as an on-baller.
I must admit to not seeing a lot of North during that time, including Wells. I remember him as a flanker at the Pies but he was a different player then.
@@thegaz-man if you want to see him at his peak, 2014 elimination final is always good viewing. especially if you like seeing essendon hearts broken
Elite work
If it bounces that many times it is forgotten....full stop. The Billy Barrott one is one I hadn't heard of or seen before....87 metres and no bounce? Impressive.
I found the 87 mark hard to verify but the number seems really consistent in different re-tellings.
Thebby's a big oval, no doubt for me it's at least 80m.
In addition to many, I had no idea this goal ever happened. But I also would love to see just how far Blight’s ball would have travelled if allowed to bounce end over end like Wells’ and Fehring’s roosts did.
Very good point. Seemed like damp conditions for Blighty so he might have gotten a bit of skip off those bounces, too.
Fehring’s only bounced once, but bounced low. Reckon those two would be close if allowed to bounce out to a complete stop!
This video makes me think how small kicks are in AFL. Now 60 feels a lot for me. I never knew 70 was that far out
Yeah, I know what you mean. In my Billy Frampton vid I couldn't hit anything past 50 out.
Couldn't imagine the power required just to hit it 70 or so - and even that's barely half the length of the MCG!
Gr8 vid. Fantastic presentation.
Thanks so much!
Best goal ever at Victoria Park, Majak Daw in a reserves game. Honorary mention to Peter Daicos.
I'm not aware of the Daw goal, what'd he do?
Surely a longest kick comparison should be measured from the distance it travelled from contact with the boot to where it lands. How far it bounces from there is arbitrary in this context.
That said, the longest kick (and goal) I witnessed live was at Victoria Park in the mid seventies. On a heavily overcast day Collingwood’s tall and lanky wingman, Wayne Gordon,kicked a torp from just inside the defensive side of the centre circle and it sailed through the goals at nearly goal post height as it was descending. The rowdy crowd as one ceased making any noise as we all sat ( and stood in those days) with stunned silence and disbelief of what we just witnessed. Wayne Gordon kicked this almighty goal off one step and it went almost as high as it went long. As I recall there was no wind assistance of note just a still overcast day. The feat was so unusual it garnered the same response as it would if we witnessed a UFO landing in front of us.
There should be a seperate category for longest kicks and goals from furthest out.
That Wayne Gordon story sounds awesome! Wish there was a complete VFL footage archive so we could have access to those classic plays
Great video mate, you deserve more subs.
Thanks!
Speaking of forgotten long goals - David Wojcinski kicked a goal from behind the centre circle against the Demons at the MCG Round 19 2003 .... would have to be up there for distance.... i don't think the video is on TH-cam anymore - i have a low res copy if you want?
Oh wow! Would absolutely be keen to see that, wing it to gazmansports@gmail.com and I'll check it out!
Great video mate, reminds me of chart party on secret base
Thanks! Jon Bois was a major inspiration for me, definitely hoping to bring a similar flavour to footy content
First time I’ve seen wells in years. I’m. North supporter.
Glad I never have to see his face again
Not a Wells fan?
Personally I never had a huge opinion on Wells one way or another.
The biggest kick I've seen with my own eyes was a preseason game when Fabian Francis booted a torp from about the centre circle at Footy Park. Could have been 1999/2000? Can't remember the year exactly. Never seen highlights of it since either.
Fabian Francis, there's a blast from the past! Good Gridley answer, he is.
Footage of a preseason game from that era is going to be hard to find, unfortunately. We've lost so many great bombs because of poor record keeping by the league.
Danielle Ponters' recent effort was pretty fair.
I haven't had the chance to put the measuring tape on it but I reckon it's easily 70 plus
Would have to be the longest AFLW goal
incredible goal..
I wonder what the longest ever recorded kick would be, that is from where the ball was kicked from to where it first made impact with the ground.
McNamara holds the official record at 79 metres to the bounce. Albert Thurgood reportedly kicked a 98.48m place kick with "slight wind assistance" in 1899, while Fred Fanning is said to have had a 105m kick, though that remains unverified as far as I know.
@@thegaz-manyep I remember thurgoods goal like it was yesterday, was an amazing game! The crowd went absolutely baliztic. Yes the wind did help, it was gusting quite hard to the south that day, but oh boy it was still an absolute bomb. It's basically what caused world war 1
Yes the Kaiser was standing in the crowd and copped a falcon flush in the Gesicht. He threw a hissifit and ordered Australia to invade Serbia, but as we now know, his spelling was his downfall.
Amazing unique content love it
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
i seen a goal kicked form the back pocket once in a local ressies match i was playing in. we were the easy beats so there was no one in our front half coz the other side was too good to defend but a massive lucky kick with the wind and a lot of lucky bounces wen through for our only goal that game but wowee it was a monster!
Wow! They should have given two goals for that 🤣🤣
For that to be the only goal a team scores in a game, that's pretty special
@@thegaz-man haha I forgot to mention that the guy who kicked it was a ring in, we struggled to field a side that day
It keeps getting better 🤣🤣
How much did you go down by in the end?
@@thegaz-man every match back then was a loss over 100 points. Clubs getting stronger now, still not strong in the seniors but couple more season and the opposition can switch back to 6-6-6 from the current 9-9-0 🤣
Balls travel less far after a bounce on wet ground. However a bit of rain during the week does not make a professional sports field wet on a sunny day days later.
I was operating on the 'skid' of a wet bounce, which I guess is more of a soccer thing.
As for the conditons, it was a miserably damp week, raining on all but one day that week - hardly downpours, though.
The volume of your audio drops all the way off in the back half of the video, mate.
Apologies about that, not sure how I missed that on editing but really noticeable now it's been pointed out.
Some may say it's a blessing to not hear me though 🤣
Malcolm Blight's goal the longest goal without bouncing? What are the longest kicks before bouncing?
Billy Barrot would probably hold that record, pretty sure that kick didn't bounce but the vid quality is so poor
Forgotten afl history right here
I can't believe it doesn't get brought up more often. I don't care how many bounces it takes, if you score from the centre square, you should be talked about forever.
dan wells collingwood legend
The crazy thing about the 100 meter goal is that there was no run up.
Yeah, and Wills was hardly known as a super boot. Just hit it really, really well and got some good hops. Presumably being in Ballarat, the wind may have had a hand, too
Malcolm Blight kicked it from probably 55 metres out tops, the man on the mark is probably standing on the 50 as Princes Park is a small ground.
That been said, it went through just above post height. I think it's overrated distance wise but it looks great.
You're about right I reckon, he kicks it from the edge of the square which would be no more than 60m out based on pure distance to goal.
Looked amazing though
RIP footy park. :(
Still got the Goodbye Football Park shirt they were giving out at the Crows' last game there.
Miss that ground, good memories.
Haha nah I was all about the Footy Express, cruising down the bus lane in the middle of West Lakes Boulevard!
The Goal everyone remembers is Malcolm Blight's
I guess because it was a big kick to win an important game. Big kick, big context situation too.
Wells, McNamara and Fehring kicked theirs in losses, in teams that had losing seasons, in matches that got lost to memory.
Wow I didn’t know about either of these goals.
They really don't get brought up much! As I said, I only accidentally stumbled across them while researching for another video!
Just wondering if Bill Lokan's goal for Fitzroy v Collingwood 1983 (also at the Junction Oval) has been taken into consideration for this.
Hadn't heard of that goal but from reading about it just now, it would come close to Fehring’s for sure.
I remember Billy Lokan he was a good player
You’ve missed the Point Blights didn’t bounce, It went through without touching the ground........the BIGGEST.
While I agree that there should be a seperate category for bouncing goals, Blight’s kick was neither the furthest of its type (McNamara) nor the kick from the furthest out from goal of its type (Lynch/Barrot, or even Noel Pettingill if his story is true).
Paul van DER haars goal against richmond
That one was a monster, measured by Useless AFL Stats at 72.5 metres. Definitely booted from a further distance to goal than Blight’s, however.
How long was Ash McGrath's for Brisbane against Sydney in the 2003 Preliminary Final?
Didn't know about that one! Found the footage, I estimate that at about 77 metres, equal with Ryan Griffen's 2008 roller - good for equal third in the V/AFL by my numbers
Good vid, sort out the audio tho! Starts bad and gets worse somehow
Will do, still figuring my way around the sound side of things. Hoping to get a proper set up soon!
Daicos (Peter) v Fitzroy @ Princes Park in 1990 never gets mentioned in this conversation. Centre circle, or just beyond, torp, no bounces, straight through
Damn, he really could kick them from anywhere haha
Let me know if you find the video, would love to check it out
@@thegaz-man the one against Geelong @ Waverley, I think’92, right pocket, off the ground???!!! Deft touch, on a wet day, DAICOS!
One of the very best of all time, that goal. Peter's one of those rare players who'd be a star in any era
‘Mighty Torpedo’
@@fredbloggs8362 hahaha, great memory 👍🏼🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤
I only count it if clears on the full not a dribbling 30m one
Fair enough, there's something more majestic about a 60m bomb if it carries over the line.
Still takes a bit of power to dribble one 90m though tbf
blighties bomb sailed above the goals and didn't drop til the back row. I know your measuring from the goal but that kick had to be 85+
The non-bouncing goals are actually measured to the point of first bounce - apologies for not clarifying that, I really should have.
Blight’s kick was from about 58m out, ending up around 13m back in the crowd. This has been verified by Useless AFL Stats and Fox Footy, and correlates to measurements taken from Google Maps.
Paul Harridine's goal for Woodville vs Port (also at Footy Park) was from just forward of centre and easily cleared the players (including Malcolm Blight) in the goal square, so approx 80 metres in the air: th-cam.com/video/HxuDupZk7xU/w-d-xo.html
I'll give him an extra 10 metres as he played for the mighty Warriors!
That's sensational, I'll measure that and update this reply with the distance.
You're pretty bang on! He recieved the ball 82m out, took 6 steps (say a 6m run max) and fired. With approximately 2.5m of carry after the line, I rate that at 79.5 metres.
Longest one I've seen video for - but apparently Noel Pettingill drilled a 96m bomb (verified by Bob Oatey) at Norwood in 1972
@@thegaz-man Yeah I've heard of the Pettingill one, but I don't think there's any video of it.
Fred Fanning's drop kick from 105 metres was longer.
It was, but it wasn't included for the following reasons:
- I haven't seen any verification of the distance that ball went, nor any news articles about it from papers at the time.
- He didn't score from that kick, which is the main focus of this video.
@@thegaz-man oh I was under the impression that he did score! I'll see if I can find a reference
Congratulations this is 1 of the most drawn out videos I’ve ever seen… nearly 7 minutes… needed to be about a minute.
Ehh, that's par for the course around here - I spent about three minutes talking about Chris Hemley once, whose career lasted about that long!
I just find footy fun to talk about.
B A R R E L
its gotta go through on the full bruh.
Always looks way more satisfying to go through without a bounce, for sure, but a goal is a goal no matter how many bounces.
Except for Ben Keays, obviously 😅
Rocca brothers
I have Anthony Rocca kicking a 71.5m goal in 2002 - to the furthest point.
Most of these players were actually closer than the distance suggests, as these are measured to the landing point.
Why are goals not on the full counted?
Good question
There's two ways of measuring a goal - to the bounce, and to the goalmouth.
Throughout this video's production, I was under the assumption that all goals were measured by distance to the goalmouth, hence Wells' inclusion.
As it turns out, all punt goals are measured to the bounce (this means Blight’s 76m kick was around 58m from goal, for example). I'm planning on expanding this concept in the future, sorting goals separately by both measures.
The wells Goal is not record because the ball bounce too many times.
In my opinion it's only a record then the ball clears the Goal line on the full without any bounces.
The Mcnamara Goal is still the official Record however it was still nice Goal by wells.
The measurements I've got here are from the kick to the goalmouth, or to the point where it landed, whichever is further.
McNamara just pips Blight in terms of goals without bouncing, with Quinten Lynch in a close third - not counting Billy Barrot's, which I think went in on the full but the footage is low quality so it's hard to tell
Daniel Wells’ kick was not on the full !! apples and oranges
Agree, bouncing kicks are measured differently to punt kicks.
I'm doing more research for a project that aims to document the longest kicks of each category, hopefully will have a follow up on that sometime soon.
How far do you judge this Fletcher goal as being? th-cam.com/video/CnPQ2aKpj-c/w-d-xo.htmlsi=2x5NJNWGHUwB7lOU
From the moment it hits his foot to the placement where it lands? I think this why this record is so hard to pin down, since the are variables like wind, rain, bouncing, whether you count where it lands past the goal line, etc.
One of my favourite goals for sure
Useless AFL Stats has that at 71m, pegged to its landing point.
@@thegaz-manonly 71? Looked more like 85 lmao. He looked 71 out from the goal line alone.
This blew up 😂
Was not expecting it, it's been amazing!!!
@@thegaz-manI just commented again not knowing you were online haha
Hope you see it
The Blight is so blooming overrated. Its a great kick, but he clearly walks past the corner of the centre square on his way in to kick. Nowhere near as far out as everyone pretends.
Got a bit of help from the commentary team - "85, 90 metres" when it was well less than that