(06-19-2023, 06:13 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:Yeah I dont agree with all of that. I think the fwd craft has always been there but for the most part but the poor delivery has messed up the finishing off. When the delivery was fast and clean this week, we saw plenty of fwd craft with the bigs and smalls in sync. Martins gather off Charlie's hands and dish off to Harry for a goal was sublime (such is his talent). Agree lets hope Cunners and Martin can remain uninjured and make through every game to the years end. DC definitely added another dimension. Like me, you may have blinked and missed his run, gather and dish off on the half back line in the 3rd qtr, I couldn't believe my eyes and had to watch it again. The bloke oozes class and speed, exactly what we need. May the the footy gods bless him with some luck FFS.
Stats tell a part of the story of any match.
They're not the 'be all and end all'...but one interesting stat is the "Disposal inside 50 efficiency."
It should probably be read in conjunction with the number of times inside 50.
For example in the Adelaide game we had 53 'inside 50s'...Adelaide had 51.
But their "disposal efficiency inside 50" was 64.7%...ours was 39.6%
More inside 50s but much less efficient.
Here's our "disposal inside 50 efficiency" for each game this year.
Rnd 1 v Richmond -Draw-46.7%
Rnd 2 v Geelong -W- 56.3%
Rnd 3 v GWS W- 44.3% (GWS was only 37%)
Rnd 4 v North- W- 51.9%
Rnd 5 v Adelaide- L- 39.6%
Rnd 6 v St Kilda -L- 46.2%
Rnd 7 v WCE-W- 71.4%
Rnd 8 v Brisbane-L- 44.7%
Rnd 9 v Western Bulldogs-L-42%
Rnd 10 v Collingwood-L-43.1%
Rnd 11 v Sydney-L-37.3%
Rnd 12 v Melbourne-L-41%
Rnd 13 v Essendon-L- 50%
Rnd 14 v Suns-W-63.6%
Our season average is 48.6%...we were much better yesterday with 63.6%
But with only 4 more inside 50s...55-51
Suns inside 50 efficiency was 41.2%