(05-17-2023, 05:48 AM)ElwoodBlues1 date Wrote:How did we outplay them?...look at the stats.....they won more stoppages, won the tackle count and were less efficient than us I50? yet beat us on the scoreboard easily.Yet for the vast bulk of the game we were double the Dogs for I50s and the like, which 9 out of 10 times would basically be the ultimate measure.
The Dogs didn't score with any great efficiency, in fact they barely scrapped in on the AFL average, but we were way way below the AFL average early, and below our own average, that was the difference. The media can sit around pumping up the Dogs tyres but I doubt they will, they had a skin of the teeth escape, they were also dead ordinary. They looked like two middle order teams.
Also, a lot of fans are bashing on about cheap stats, uncontested possessions and the like, but the Dogs actually had more UCs than Carlton, and Carlton won more Contested Possessions. I50s broke even by the end of the game, with I50 efficiency just a bees different in the end.
We actually managed to keep the Dogs down on most of their 2023 averages, that's a stat of significance, but nobody is going to mention it because we lost.
But at the start of the game there is no denying, we clearly were dead ordinary, with I50 after I50 being a null result, ultimately that cost us, a lot of good effort with no result.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"