AFL Rd 1 2022 Post Game Permutations

[madbluboy]

Montangna said our midfield has gone from Batman and Robin (Cripps and Walsh) to The Avengers.

[Baggers]

Montangna said our midfield has gone from Batman and Robin (Cripps and Walsh) to The Avengers.

...and some folk in the media have picked up on 'The Avengers' monica for our midfield and run with it - it may stick. (I had to Google The Avengers... not a fan of superhero movies).

[LP]

...and some folk in the media have picked up on 'The Avengers' monica for our midfield and run with it - it may stick. (I had to Google The Avengers... not a fan of superhero movies).

I'd rather them be labelled as The Boys!

[shawny]

Early days but the difference to previous years is quite staggering.

Go Blues

Yep exactly what I think. This list has very little holes and a ton of upside. It’s taken longer then I would have liked but I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say there is no reason this list won’t be going deep in September for at least the next 5 years. We have had a lot of pain but those days are gone now.

[Mantis]

Very good start to a season. Lots of positive in this side. I will be very interested to see what Voss has learned since he had his first exposure to coaching a club as the main man.

[Milhanna13]

I can't remember a more dominant contested midfield win than last night, we only had 4 mids rotating through the centre bounces for the whole night and between them they had 121 possessions, 48 contested, 26 clearances and 6 goals. The way they played together was really something to watch, seemed to know where each other was, or supposed to be, no panicked disposals, held on to the ball and found the right outlet. Huge tick for the coaches.
I know it's only round 1 but signs are there. 

I was trying to recall if i had seen anyone else at a centre-bounce, other than the big4.... obviously not.  A long time since we have done that - i wonder how many other teams do that??  with Kennedy playing a reasonably reduced time on ground - that means the other 3 must have been in the middle for a looong time...

[dodge]

According to AFL, Kennedy was 73% on ground and Hewitt 75%, Cripps and Cerra both 83%.  If all 22 players had an even amount of time on the ground, it would round up to 82%.

The spirit not to give up, the intensity seemed to be higher and for longer.  Cripps 3 goals straight.  There were many highlights and great things to see, as well as improvement to come.

Well done Blues & the Doc.

[LP]

I was trying to recall if i had seen anyone else at a centre-bounce, other than the big4.... obviously not.  A long time since we have done that - i wonder how many other teams do that??  with Kennedy playing a reasonably reduced time on ground - that means the other 3 must have been in the middle for a looong time...

Obviously SoJ and De Koning rucked, I'm sure I saw others briefly in the midfield, if I recall there was also one moment when both Cerra and Hewett were on the bench together.

Did I see Durdin and Martin get a rotation in there at one stage? It can be hard to recall what was a centre bounce and what was a regular stoppage.

[kruddler]

According to AFL, Kennedy was 73% on ground and Hewitt 75%, Cripps and Cerra both 83%.  If all 22 players had an even amount of time on the ground, it would round up to 82%.

The spirit not to give up, the intensity seemed to be higher and for longer.  Cripps 3 goals straight.  There were many highlights and great things to see, as well as improvement to come.

Well done Blues & the Doc.

If all 4 of our boys spent all their TOG in the middle, they'd get 75% game time each. Clearly they spent a little bit of time on the ground outside the middle as well.

But based of that, it would appear that nobody else was in the middle.
At least at centre bounces, the only centre clearances are credited to those 4 (Cripps 5, Hewitt 2, Kennedy 1, Cerra 1) and our 2 rucks (Pittonet 3, TDK 2).

The best thing about all of this is, keeping in mind we have Walsh coming back too) that we don't need a team full of midfielders.
We can actually have dedicated half-forwards (Martin, Fisher, Silvagni etc) and dedicated half backs (Docherty, Saad, Williams)
and it means we can have genuine outside runners on the wings (Walsh, LOB, Setterfield?)

All in all, it very much reminds me of the Lions and how they went about it.
All this talk about midfield depth over the past 2 decades and seemingly its all out the window now.

[madbluboy]

Interesting on Thursday night a lot of our team came from another club.