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Lance Franklin and Jayden Hunt impressed the AFL world on the weekend with their long-range set shots that have been considered as two of the best goals kicked this season.

Unfortunately for Buddy - despite the difficulty of the kick - his shot wasn't particularly long at all.

Champion Data podcast The Drill delved into the data to discover just how far they travelled.

"Lance Franklin’s was an unbelievable kick, an extremely difficult kick - wasn’t that far out from goal," host Daniel Hoyne revealed.

"It was 52m out according to our calculations; but it looked like a long, long way out."

As for the Melbourne speedster:

"Jayden Hunt’s big bomb - 16th longest in the last 5 years. We clocked it at 61m."

The podcast reveals that the measurements are only taken from the boot to the goal line, meaning any additional distance travelled by the ball is irrelevant.

The longest recorded set shot goal was also unveiled - although, the data is only recent.

Since the statistic has been measured in the last 5 season, GWS forward Jonathon Patton snared the record in Round 3 of 2016 against Sydney.

His 72m bomb can be seen at the 4:07 mark below:

It's almost impossible to deny that the spiritual owner of the title, however, is North Melbourne legend Malcolm Blight with this monstrous effort in 1976: