AFL Finals 2024 Carlton vs Brisbane in Brisbane

[Thryleon]

The reason i bring up 'the stats sheet' is because i disagree with peoples opinions on how 'good' Fantasia is, has been, ever will be.

We can get into a "No he's not" vs "Yes he is" argument,
OR
I can bring something new to the table.

I don't need stats to form an opinion.
I use stats to back up my opinion.

Motlop being 'garbage' all season is funny.
I did a like for like comparison of averages between Motlop and Fantasia and Motlop has him covered in almost every single stat.....and there is like 40 stats.
So if Motlop is garbage, what is the level below garbage because thats where Fantasia sits.

On the basis of this season, Fantasia has outperformed durdin and motlop.  That should mean next week, he's the one most likely in.

Moir is young, but happy to have him play, provided we don't need heavy lifting.

Fact is, that Fantasia has played more like durdin did against the Eagles, and Motlop hasn't really been one to work up the field.  That's fine, but stats generally tell you what a bloke does on the ball.  Not what he does off it.  It doesn't tell you what runs they make that aren't honoured, what options they take when in possession (I.e. picking off a dangerous kick) or when impacting the game did they do it when we had the ascendency or didn't.  Fantasia input on Sunday was when we weren't on top but cripps was doing a mountain of work and looking for blokes to come with him.  Fantasia chimed in.  Motlop and durdins inputs happened when we were trying to get back in front and more of the others came back into the game.

Everyone provided something.  At the time Fantasia did more when we needed it and IMHO I think anyone playing motlops role would likely have given us the same as he did.

That's why if I was choosing spot 23 next week and I had to toss up between motlop and Fantasia, provided owies was already in (runs on the board) I'd choose Fantasia.

On capability and future output you could argue any of them aside from Fantasia but given both of their last seasons (Fantasia wasn't fit, motlop "was") motlop has had the more dissapointing season.  That's ok.  We aren't talking list spots which serves only to muddy the argument, but Fantasia has played  better and his presence in the team has correlated with generally better team performance.