Goaltracker

[sydneybluesfan]

Don't you see its a subjective stat??

Three teams kicked over 14 goals for the round.

Two of them played against each other in a shoot-out with one kicking 18, the other 15.

Leigh Mathews said, first to 15 goals wins.

Adelaide's much revered forwardline was useless this week.

Don't get me wrong,  I think we do need some improvement in our forwardline but I can see enough improvement in jack Silvagni and Charlie Curnow to suggest that they will do better in future.  I also believe that with some different players we could kick more goals. 

Why I'm not worried is that we are getting in there often enough but not hitting the scoreboard as often as we could be as we turn it over entering our fifty by hitting up speculative targets or not playing the percentages.  We are trending upwards here too.

What I'm thinking is that the we don't kick enough goals is alarmist. Goals are the finishing of work.  An example of why I'm not worried is that if we hit better targets inside forward fifty we could kick more goals with our current cattle.  To suggest that they won't improve that is false, and that's without factoring growth or recruitment.

Of course this is largely subjective, and everyone is perfectly entitled to their opinion. My position is based primarily on stats that I think are often overlooked.

If people think that being second last in inside 50's and 10% lower than this time last year is 'getting the ball in enough' then I'll go heave. Our conversion of inside 50's into scoring shots and goals is about  the league average. Where I disagree with many though is the assertion that we will 'naturally improve' or the coaches will suddenly switch tack and we will suddenly become much better in attack, despite a 60 game trendline that shows no improvement at all. There is a bit of potential in a few of our youngsters, but we individually and collectively we have delivered very little in attack all year.

A competent forwardline begins with having a bunch of good forwards on your list, with a mix of experienced and developing players - just like we have with the defence and midfield. Until we get more AFL standard forwards onto our list, or start playing the ones we do have, then I can't see how we improve!