If Essendon full forward Matthew Lloyd can boot seven goals against Brisbane on Saturday night at the Gabba he will become the third youngest player to reach the 400-goal milestone in AFL/VFL history. If Lloyd can achieve the feat this weekend, he will have taken just 47 days after his 23rd birthday. Only Bob Pratt (22 years and 238 days) and Tony Lockett (23 years and 30 days) have reached the milestone. It puts him ahead of John Longmire (23/183), Kelvin Templeton (23/201) and John Coleman (24/141). Lloyd will become the 63rd player to kick 400 or more goals and the ninth Essendon player.

After a slowish start to the season, Lloyd has really got moving in the club's past two matches at Colonial Stadium where he has kicked bags of 10 and 8 against West Coast and Hawthorn respectively. Lloyd's eight goals against Hawthorn means he has a better goal average against the hawks than any other side in the competition. Here is a run down of how Lloyd has accumulated his 393 goals to date.

v Adelaide:
7 matches, 23 goals, Ave: 3.28

v Brisbane:
6 matches, 14 goals, Ave: 2.33

v Carlton
12 matches, 36 goals, Ave: 3.00

v Collingwood
11 matches, 34 goals, Ave: 3.09

v Western Bulldogs:
7 matches, 20 goals, Ave: 2.86

v Fremantle
5 matches, 19 goals, Ave: 3.80

V Geelong
6 matches, 23 goals, Ave: 3.83

v Hawthorn
6 matches, 29 goals, Ave: 4.83

v Melbourne
8 matches, 35 goals, Ave: 4.38

v Kangaroos
9 matches, 32 goals, Ave: 3.56

v Port Adelaide
5 matches, 18 goals, Ave: 3.60

v Richmond
10 matches, 34 goals, Ave: 3.40

v St Kilda
5 matches, 18 goals, Ave: 3.60

v Sydney
8 matches, 35 goals, Ave: 4.38

v West Coast
9 matches, 23 goals, 2.56

Some other fatcs that may be of interest. During his career, Lloyd has kicked 89 first quarter goals, 109 second quarter goals, 95 third quarter goals and 100 fourth quarter goals.

Lloyd has also kicked the Bombers first goal in 25 of his 114 games. He only walked of the ground without a goal to his name on nine occasions. The last time it occurred was in round 13 of the 1999 season against the Western Bulldogs - it was his 72nd game.