03-21-2022, 05:37 AM
(03-21-2022, 02:41 AM)dodge link Wrote:According to AFL, Kennedy was 73% on ground and Hewitt 75%, Cripps and Cerra both 83%. If all 22 players had an even amount of time on the ground, it would round up to 82%.
The spirit not to give up, the intensity seemed to be higher and for longer. Cripps 3 goals straight. There were many highlights and great things to see, as well as improvement to come.
Well done Blues & the Doc.
If all 4 of our boys spent all their TOG in the middle, they'd get 75% game time each. Clearly they spent a little bit of time on the ground outside the middle as well.
But based of that, it would appear that nobody else was in the middle.
At least at centre bounces, the only centre clearances are credited to those 4 (Cripps 5, Hewitt 2, Kennedy 1, Cerra 1) and our 2 rucks (Pittonet 3, TDK 2).
The best thing about all of this is, keeping in mind we have Walsh coming back too) that we don't need a team full of midfielders.
We can actually have dedicated half-forwards (Martin, Fisher, Silvagni etc) and dedicated half backs (Docherty, Saad, Williams)
and it means we can have genuine outside runners on the wings (Walsh, LOB, Setterfield?)
All in all, it very much reminds me of the Lions and how they went about it.
All this talk about midfield depth over the past 2 decades and seemingly its all out the window now.