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West Coast's Coleman medallist Josh Kennedy is the best key forward in the game.

But his record at home dwarfs his one away.

In 13 games at Domain Stadium in 2015 he has kicked 54.30 with 24.22 coming in West Coast's 10 games away.

That's bad news for North Melbourne despite the fact it remains the most recent team to keep Kennedy goalless.

That was in round 11, 2014, when the Kangaroos defeated the Eagles who kicked just six goals.

Since that game the 2015 Coleman medallist has kicked at least one goal in each of his next 32 games and was among the Eagles' best in the qualifying final, bagging three goals.

He leads the AFL for marks inside 50, taking a whopping 61 per cent of his 153 marks inside 50 this season and he's bagged 78 goals, a great performance even allowing for the fact he doesn't mind wobbling the odd kick for goal through the sticks.

He is also involved in 31.6 per cent of West Coast's scores.

Despite his home dominance, his record at the MCG isn't too bad.

He kicked three goals against Richmond in his only game this season at the MCG and has kicked eight in his past three games at the venue where the Grand Final is played.

Whoever plays on Kennedy has a monumental task, but if they managed a minor miracle and held him goalless (as he has been 14 times in 141 games with the Eagles) then the odds would tilt in North Melbourne’s favour.

The Eagles have only won one of the 14 games where he has finished the game with a duck egg next to his name.

Not only is that not likely but it might not stop West Coast anyway.

The 27-year-old now has the support of the most talented combination inside 50 in the AFL.

Between them Kennedy, Jack Darling, Jamie Cripps, Josh Hill and Mark LeCras have kicked 58 per cent of the Eagles' goals, booting 206 of the team's 354 goals for the season.

They have been beneficiaries of an outstanding midfield and an attacking defensive set-up established under second-year coach Adam Simpson.

When Darling kicks three goals or more, as he has 26 times, the Eagles win 86 per cent of the time. With Hill it's 88 per cent. 

The next two weeks – if they make the Grand Final – will determine how the Eagles' forward combination stacks up against premiership forward lines of the recent past.

Hawthorn's forward combination in the past two seasons takes some beating.

As effective without 'Buddy' in 2014 as it had been the previous season, the Hawks' forward line remains a force.

Their top five for the past three seasons have kicked more than 200 goals combined with Jarryd Roughead, Jack Gunston, and Luke Breust being constants as 'Buddy' Franklin, Cyril Rioli, Paul Puopolo, Isaac Smith and David Hale chipped in to varying degrees.

So far this year the Hawks’ top five goalkickers have kicked 54 per cent of the team's goals, after kicking 56 per cent of their goals in 2014. The famous five (Roughead, Franklin, Breust, Gunston and Rioli) contributed 52 per cent of the team's goals in 2013.

In some ways they redefined what became conventional wisdom between 2006 and 2012.

During that period the top five forwards from premiership teams kicked fewer than 50 per cent of their team's goals in every season except when Buddy's ton kicked the Hawks to a flag in 2008.

In that remarkable season Franklin (113 goals), Roughead (75), Mark Williams (46), Michael Osborne (27), Rioli (24) kicked 69 per cent of the team's goals.

But that was off-trend.

Geelong had nine players kick more than 20 goals and eight in the other in its three most recent flags. Collingwood and the Sydney Swans had nine kicking more than 20 in 2010 and 2012 respectively.

But the Hawks have never had more than seven players kick 20 goals or more in each of the premiership years.

But their attacking system is unparalleled.

West Coast, led by Kennedy, is more in the Hawthorn style with six players kicking more than 20 goals this season and Nic Naitanui and Elliot Yeo sitting on 17 goals each.

Kennedy leads a formidable attack and will earn lifelong plaudits if he can stand up to the heat applied in the next fortnight.

And the Eagles’ forward line will stake a claim to being one of the best seen in the modern era.

Stats supplied by Champion Data