THE “bush telegraph” was in full swing on Saturday afternoon as word of another Grant Weeks goalkicking demolition spread around local footy.
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This time it was Heathcote on the receiving end as Weeks feasted on the Saints with a Colbinabbin club record bag of 20 goals in what was a 245-point win.
In doing so the superboot brought up his 100th goal for the season – the sixth time in the past seven years Weeks has done so during stints with his hometown Grasshoppers, Golden Square and Rochester.
Weeks’ 20 goals on Saturday followed 15 a week earlier against Elmore.
While Weeks’ goalkicking feats have long been a source of headlines for this newspaper – none more so than in 2012 when he booted a new Bendigo Football League record 164 goals – his second half of the season has been particularly brutal.
He has booted 76 goals in seven games since the halfway mark, with Leitchville-Gunbower dodging a bullet in round 13 when he missed that game to play for Victoria Country, bagging seven goals against the Victorian Amateurs at the QEO.
There’s not too many more entertaining sights in country footy than watching a full-forward ply his trade like Weeks has over the past month - even more so now that the days of monster AFL hauls synonymous with the likes of Tony Lockett, Jason Dunstall, Gary Ablett and co have become a rarity.
Yet like any forward, Weeks can only be as dominant as his team-mates up the ground allow him to be, and those that constantly get the ball down to him also deserve credit.
Weeks’ 119 goals for the season stand out like a beacon across AFL Central Victoria’s four senior leagues – Bendigo, Heathcote District, North Central and Loddon Valley.
Across the four leagues there have been 845 players kick goals, but so far just six who have snagged more than 60 – Weeks (119), Sam Barnes (North Bendigo, 75), Matt Gretgrix (Eaglehawk, 71), Brady Herdman (North Bendigo, 68), Chris Gleeson (Huntly, 61), and Seamus Young (Donald, 60).
Considering three of those players – Weeks, Barnes and Herdman – will all be in action in this Saturday’s HDFL qualifying final, that’s a strong advertisement to head out to Huntly for a look a what should be a cracking game between the Grasshoppers and Bulldogs.
