Giants Trample Blues - Post Match

[kruddler]

I'd say 10 clearances is having a fair influence around the ground.

Firstly, i don't consider clearances as being 'around the ground', when i say that term i mean in general play. Not from a stoppage.

Secondly, even using your interpretation, 10 clearances = fair influence.......Not really. I think that stat is becoming very misleading.

Just had a quick look to see if my assumptions were correct before i went into great detail about it.

Basically Cam Wood proves what i'm talking about. Tonight, he had 6 clearances. You know what his clearances were? Grab the ball out of the ruck, and throw it on the boot. He has been doing it all year. Great, we get the clearance, but how often does it actually go to a teammate, how often does it go to our advantage at all?

It's kinda like the hitouts. The number of hitouts players get is essentially an irrelevent stat. The hitouts to advantage is what matters. For the record, Mumford smashed that tonight he had 15 hitouts to advantage halfway through the last quarter. Wood had 2.
Which player had more influence around the ground? Mumford only had 1 clearance but had 4 contested marks and was presenting around the ground a lot more than Wood.

Back to stoppages...
Judd averages more stoppages a game than anyone else on our list.
You know who averages the second most? Yup. Cam Wood.
Carrazzo 3rd
Cripps =4th
Gibbs =4th

Even Warnock averages more clearances than Murphy! Does that make him a better player?

Stoppages are overrated.
Gibbs is overrated.