By our reckoning, the first YouTube footage of Buddy Franklin's brilliant running goal against the Bombers on Friday night was published within an hour of the final siren.

That's a tribute to both a tribute to the convenience of the video sharing site (take that, Telstra!) and the brilliance of the goal.

Writing in the following morning's Herald Sun, Mark Robinson said he received a text message shortly after the final siren asking whether it was the best goal ever kicked at the MCG. He has also published his list today.

We often confuse the most recent acts of genius on a footy field for 'best ever'. When Gary Moorcroft took that hanger against the Bulldogs in 2000, there were cries of 'best ever' in the days and weeks that followed. Yet it has never been the subject of a Toyota commercial as has been Alex Jesaulenko.

But it got us talking at BPL and with a little help from our friends, here are some of the better MCG goals that we can recall.

As always, let us know what we may have missed.

1977 - TWIGGY DUNNE: He might have been just 10 metres out from goal, but what about the pressure. Miss it and the Magpies lose the grand final. And how about the torpedo?

1977 - PHIL MANASSA: Five bounces through the middle of the MCG a week later in the replay. The stuff of boyhood dreams.

1964 - RAY GABELICH: Not quite as graceful as Buddy, but the big Magpie's huff and puff effort to put his team in front in the 1964 Grand Final is one of the most famous of all. As is Neil Crompton's a few minutes later, which won the game for the Demons.

1994 - MICK McGUANE: Six bounces, twists, turns, baulks and then slamming it home from 25 metres out on an Easter Monday against Carlton. Hard to reconcile the player then with the 'largish' bloke we saw at the Magpie premiership reunion a few weeks back. But a brilliant goal all the same.

1993 - MICHAEL LONG: Darted his way through the middle of the MCG, taking four bounces before steering one through to the Ponsford Stand end in the Grand Final. Stephen Silvagni still maintains he touched it on the line.

1999 - WAYNE CAREY: You've seen the vision dozens of times, with carey hemmed in the old Northern Stand pocket against Essendon. He twists, turns on to his left and snaps a banana off his wrong foot that splits the middle.

1990 - PETER DAICOS: The first goal of the Grand Final, where he gets the ball on the run and slots in from deep in the forward pocket. Run of the mill stuff for Daics, in the eyes of many.

1989 - GARY ABLETT: Gathered the ball from a boundary throw-in and snapped the goal. It swung the momentum back Geelong's way in the Grand Final against Hawthorn. His 1988 goal against Collingwood ("what more can you say?" was also brilliant

1979 - KEN SHELDON: Yes, a simple gather and dribble kick in the goal square, but it was Wayne Harmes' desperate shovel from the boundary line (or Brunton Avenue if you're a Collingwood supporter) that made this a classic goal.

1988 - MATTHEW LARKIN: Twisted and turned himself inside out before snapping truly. The first of the great Friday night footy goals, followed shortly afterwards by Phil Krakouer.

1994 - BILLY BROWNLESS: the match winner in the qualifying final against Footscray. If we don't it's one of the best ever, then he'll tell you.

2009 - DAVID ZAHARAKIS: The match-winner in teeming rain during last year's Anzac Day clash.