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Good morning all - long time reader, never been a poster - until now!
Just been looking at the AFL stats for the year with partcular interest in "tackles". I have always bemoaned our lack of intensity in this department, particularly around stoppages and our forward line pressure. The AFL stats tell an interesting story. Clealry the standouts in the competition this year were WCE, Sydney, and Adelaide (1st, 2nd & 3rd right?). When you look at the tackling stats, they tell us that WCE had 10 tacklers in the top 100 for a total of 754 tackles, Sydney 10 (878) and Adelaide 8 (667).
To contrast this, the bottom sides stats were: Kangaroos 4 (289), Essendon 4 (323), Carlton 6 (399) - a huge difference. Then I looked at ours - 3 tacklers in the top 100 for a total of 214 tackles!! OUCH!! These were Tuck 72 (the top was James McDonald with 154! and Kirk and J Bolton both had around 140), Foley with 71, and Tivendale with 71 (I'd love to know how many of these he actually nailed).
To be in the top 100 you needed to have had 54 tackles (approx. 2.5 per game) but as you can see, the elite get 6-7 per game. Looking at our other on-ballers small forwards shows us where we need to improve:
Krakouer 51 (from 17 games) Ave: 3 (acceptable; good tackler; just doesn't get to enough contests)
Coughlan 36 (11) Ave: 3.3 (acceptable)
Hyde 48 (22) Ave: 2.2 (not acceptable; lack of pace over first few yards?)
Johnson 47 (19) Ave: 2.5 (whilst acceptable, should be our Kirk/Bolton and lifting to 5-6 per game)
Pettifer 32 (22) Ave: 1.5 (pathetic and one of the reasons why ball comes so easily out of our forward line; extremely slow over first few yards)
Polo 41 (17) Ave: 2.4 (on the way up; positive signs)
White 30 (11) ave: 2.7 (ditto; very good given game time; good pace and intensity)
Deledio 35 (21) Ave: 1.7 (not good enough; his one weakness; was sure at some times he had a shoulder injury; has all the ingredients for a tackler)
Does anyone else have any thoughts on this matter? Are there any kids in the draft that could help (e.g. Polo/White types) that we could pick up with lower picks?
Just been looking at the AFL stats for the year with partcular interest in "tackles". I have always bemoaned our lack of intensity in this department, particularly around stoppages and our forward line pressure. The AFL stats tell an interesting story. Clealry the standouts in the competition this year were WCE, Sydney, and Adelaide (1st, 2nd & 3rd right?). When you look at the tackling stats, they tell us that WCE had 10 tacklers in the top 100 for a total of 754 tackles, Sydney 10 (878) and Adelaide 8 (667).
To contrast this, the bottom sides stats were: Kangaroos 4 (289), Essendon 4 (323), Carlton 6 (399) - a huge difference. Then I looked at ours - 3 tacklers in the top 100 for a total of 214 tackles!! OUCH!! These were Tuck 72 (the top was James McDonald with 154! and Kirk and J Bolton both had around 140), Foley with 71, and Tivendale with 71 (I'd love to know how many of these he actually nailed).
To be in the top 100 you needed to have had 54 tackles (approx. 2.5 per game) but as you can see, the elite get 6-7 per game. Looking at our other on-ballers small forwards shows us where we need to improve:
Krakouer 51 (from 17 games) Ave: 3 (acceptable; good tackler; just doesn't get to enough contests)
Coughlan 36 (11) Ave: 3.3 (acceptable)
Hyde 48 (22) Ave: 2.2 (not acceptable; lack of pace over first few yards?)
Johnson 47 (19) Ave: 2.5 (whilst acceptable, should be our Kirk/Bolton and lifting to 5-6 per game)
Pettifer 32 (22) Ave: 1.5 (pathetic and one of the reasons why ball comes so easily out of our forward line; extremely slow over first few yards)
Polo 41 (17) Ave: 2.4 (on the way up; positive signs)
White 30 (11) ave: 2.7 (ditto; very good given game time; good pace and intensity)
Deledio 35 (21) Ave: 1.7 (not good enough; his one weakness; was sure at some times he had a shoulder injury; has all the ingredients for a tackler)
Does anyone else have any thoughts on this matter? Are there any kids in the draft that could help (e.g. Polo/White types) that we could pick up with lower picks?