Football top scorers: Brogan enters the top ten
August 12, 2014
Galway's Shane Walsh is still the man to catch
Bernard Brogan's 1-7 against Monaghan sees him move up the football top scorers chart.
The Dublin ace bettered his Leinster final tally by a point at the weekend and with 2-147 to his name, is now in joint ninth.
Brogan and Cillian O'Connor (2-23) are the only two players in the top ten who are still involved in championship 2014.
Galway's Shane Walsh is currently top of the pile with 1-29.
From open play Kerry's James O'Donoghue (1-13) and Tipperary's Con Sweeney (3-7) are the leading exponents.
Overall Fermanagh's Sean Quigley has the highest average score per game so far with 11.5.
Quigley has four goals to his name, as does Meath's Michael Newman.
The highest individual game tally so far belongs to Quigley (2-8 v Laois).
Overall - championship football top scorer
Shane Walsh, Galway 1-29 (32) 6.4avg
Con Sweeney, Tipperary 4-19 (31) 6.2avg
Conor McManus, Monaghan 1-27 (30) 5.0avg
Cillian O'Connor, Mayo 2-23 (29) 7.25avg
Tony Kernan, Armagh 0-25 (25) 3.57avg
Sean Quigley, Fermanagh 3-14 (23) 11.5avg
Donie Kingston, Laois 0-23 (23) 4.6avg
Ross Munnelly, Laois 0-21 (21) 4.2avg
Bernard Brogan, Dublin 2-14 (20) 6.66avg
Michael Newman, Meath 4-8 (20) 6.66avg
Barry Grogan, Tipperary 2-14 (20) 4.0avg
From play - championship football top scorer
James O'Donoghue, Kerry 1-13 (16) 8.0avg
Con Sweeney, Tipperary 3-7 (16) 3.2avg
Shane Walsh, Galway 1-12 (15) 3.0avg
Shane McGrath, Clare 1-12 (15) 3.0avg
Danny Cummins, Galway 2-9 (15) 3.0avg
Conor Laverty, Down 2-8 (14) 3.5avg
