Just read this on the MFC website and thought it gave a great insight as to this vital inside 50 stat.

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/7415/newsid/111523/default.aspx

Sometimes we do get caught up in certain stats, but it's great that Clubs have access to further explain certain areas, especially during the match.

While the issue early on the weekend was how shallow we were kicking it inside our 50, I could see it, the commentators could see it, and I'm not looking at these stats in such fine detail, I have no doubt that the change in attitude swung the game our way.

The biggest thing I took from that article was the strength of the other end of the ground.

63 times teams had 60+ Inside 50s in 2010 and 55 times they won the game.

Just 8 times the team that saw their defensive 50 breached over 60 times won the game and on three of these rare ocassions - Melbourne was the victor.

Our defence is doing a great job and if our mids can reduce the amount of ball that gets in there we will be very hard to beat.

Edited April 13, 201114 yr by rpfc

The biggest thing I took from that article was the strength of the other end of the ground.

63 times teams had 60+ Inside 50s in 2010 and 55 times they won the game.

Just 8 times the team that saw their defensive 50 breached over 60 times won the game and on three of these rare ocassions - Melbourne was the victor.

Our defence is doing a great job and if our mids can reduce the amount of ball that gets in there we will be very hard to beat.

Did highlight what a fantastic job our defence did, and is doing.

Makes you wonder just how good we could be in a couple of years, providing out of the group of Scully, Trengove, Grimes, McKenzie, Gysberts, Blease, Strauss, Tapscott and Morton, if we can get 6 that are serious A-graders, which I think is quite realistic, that gives us a couple of those guys not going on (ie my thoughts on Strauss). We will have 3 or 4 true B grade mids in Moloney, Sylvia, and Davey. That's also leaving out the likes of Bennell, Bail and even Jones to fit in to either of those categories, plus anyone else I left out (delibrately didn't name anyone else becuase I'm being realsitic about some of our players).

It truly is our best chance of the ultimate success, that's in my 30-odd years anyway.

Edited April 13, 201114 yr by billy2803

On the flip side how many games did we enter into our forward 50m arc more than 60 times, it would supprise me if the answer wasn't 0.

Yes I agree its telling statistic

Yes I agree its telling statistic

YES! ISN'T IT!

VERY TELLING!

I'M HAVING TROUBLE CONTROLLING THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE!!