I'll be at the game, hoping for a better showing than last week.

We went up one spot even though we lost last week.  >
This week we play Gold Coast who are a shadow of what they were last year. However, they should have a LOT more talent on the park than we can manage.

The game is at Carlton on Saturday morning at 10:25.

I really hope Motlop plays: if he does OK, then he'll be in the 1's next week replacing Fantasia.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1135156/targ...-inside-50
From the article....
Targets inside 50 for the year.
Carlton: Charlie Curnow (95), Harry McKay (84), Tom De Koning (21)

Looking at some other stats on our big 3 forwards...
Charlie - Harry - TDK
  29  -  24  -  7  -  Goals
  18  -  12  -  8  -  Behinds
  50  -  45  -  16  -  Shots on goal
    3  -    9    -    1  -  Complete misses
58%  - 53%  - 44% -  Goal accuracy % (from total shots on goal, including misses)

  28  -  29  -  10  -  Marks inside 50.

  49  -  43  -  73  - Targets leading to shots on goal (%)
  31  -  29  -  33  - Targets leading to goal (%)
  29  -  35  -  48  - Targets leading to marks inside 50 (%)

OK, so thats the facts. What does it all mean.

Lets make a couple observations
- Charlie is our best shot on goal. Harry has improved remarkably, but still misses completely more than he should, but even with those misses, is more likely than TDK to kick a goal once he has a shot.
- Despite being targetted less, we are more likely to get a shot at goal, an actual goal and a mark inside 50, when we target TDK. This should be common sense really. Everyone knows we go to Harry and Charlie the most, so they get the best defenders and they get the 3rd man in helping out as well. So, by default, TDK (and everyone else in the team) get lesser defenders and less attention paid to them.

So, my take home point is this.
SPREAD THE LOAD!
Our scoring will be better if we learn to target other players.

Stop directing the ball to Harry and Charlie constantly and try and use some other forwards more often.
We have been lacking a 3rd tall most of the year (remembering TDK playing #1 ruck first half of the year) and not having Jack Silvagni available....and not having Jack Martin available much either. I'd really like to see us target this area ASAP or shoehorn someone into this role ASAP - Kemp, McGovern, Marchbank is 1 too many '3rd talls' to play down back. Try one up forward??

If there is enough interest, i might do some comparisons of other forwards (teams?) and see how we compare.

Not an easy game, with Gold Coast flogging Geelong by 10 goals and us having half our team in the stands.

Voting is as usual: you have 15 votes to award pretty much as you will, with the following provisos:
[1] 15 votes in total, no more, no less.
[2] No more than 10 votes for any one player (even Sam Walsh or Patrick Cripps)
[3] Three players at least must get a mention.
[4] A grade for the game, A+ (what I want to see) to F-.

All ready for tonight.

Not feeling confident with half the team injured, but it is a two horse race.

Saturday at 15:05 at Willi.
They're going very well, but we'll be back to maybe half a dozen AFL players.

I was off the site for several months, so not aware of any changes that may have occurred in that time. There was discussion a little while ago about Spanner not being able to look after the site any longer. Has this issue been resolved ? Has anyone taken over his role ?

Thanks

Sadly, Corey "Homicide" Williams lost his relatively short battle with cancer. I'm not a basketball fan in any way shape or form but I followed Homicide mainly through his socials and on SEN. Nice fella, always spoke his mind and was often very funny. He and Gazey would often have me in stitches back in the day.
Will be missed.