If we take 0 as the baseline ie the impact each player had on the playing group and team effectiveness last year, let’s rate each player on this year’s performance so far between + or – 5 and see where the overall team comes out. Remember the baseline of 0 is on the individual’s performance last year.

Bail, Rohan +1

Bartram, Clint -2

Bate, Matthew -1

Bennell, Jamie +2

Bruce, Cameron -5

Davey, Aaron -4

Dunn, Lynden -3

Frawley, James -3

Garland, Colin +3

Green, Brad -4

Grimes, Jack -3

Gysberts, Jordan +1

Jamar, Mark +2

Jetta, Neville 0

Jones, Nathan 0

Jurrah, Liam +3

Macdonald, Joel -4

McDonald, James -5

Maric, Addam 0

Martin, Stefan +4

McKenzie, Jordie -5

Moloney, Brent +4

Morton, Cale -3

Petterd, Ricky 0

Rivers, Jared +2

Scully, Tom -4

Spencer, Jake 0

Strauss, James 0

Sylvia, Colin -2

Tapscott, Luke +2

Trengove, Jack -1

Warnock, Matthew 0

Watts, Jack +2

Wonaeamirri, Austin +1

TOTAL -22

Whilst nearly 50% of this decline can be put down to the loss of Bruce and McDonald (I suggest particularly on McDonald’s leadership), the decline has been mostly due to the decline of our senior players: Grimes, Green, Davey, Frawley, and the absence through injury of Scully and Mackenzie. McKenzie if anything has been missed more than Scully because of his hardness at the ball and his tackling. If you watched our high performance games last year (Swans, C’wood x2, Bulldogs, Essendon), Mackenzie was crucial in all those games, and gave others space to run and spread, something we seem unable to do this year.

When analysed like this though, it is obvious what we need to do individually. My problem though is I still think we have the wrong gameplan, or worse, no gameplan at all, at least one we execute.

If we take 0 as the baseline ie the impact each player had on the playing group and team effectiveness last year, let’s rate each player on this year’s performance so far between + or – 5 and see where the overall team comes out. Remember the baseline of 0 is on the individual’s performance last year.

Bail, Rohan +1

Bartram, Clint -2

Bate, Matthew -1

Bennell, Jamie +2

Bruce, Cameron -5

Davey, Aaron -4

Dunn, Lynden -3

Frawley, James -3

Garland, Colin +3

Green, Brad -4

Grimes, Jack -3

Gysberts, Jordan +1

Jamar, Mark +2

Jetta, Neville 0

Jones, Nathan 0

Jurrah, Liam +3

Macdonald, Joel -4

McDonald, James -5

Maric, Addam 0

Martin, Stefan +4

McKenzie, Jordie -5

Moloney, Brent +4

Morton, Cale -3

Petterd, Ricky 0

Rivers, Jared +2

Scully, Tom -4

Spencer, Jake 0

Strauss, James 0

Sylvia, Colin -2

Tapscott, Luke +2

Trengove, Jack -1

Warnock, Matthew 0

Watts, Jack +2

Wonaeamirri, Austin +1

TOTAL -22

Whilst nearly 50% of this decline can be put down to the loss of Bruce and McDonald (I suggest particularly on McDonald’s leadership), the decline has been mostly due to the decline of our senior players: Grimes, Green, Davey, Frawley, and the absence through injury of Scully and Mackenzie. McKenzie if anything has been missed more than Scully because of his hardness at the ball and his tackling. If you watched our high performance games last year (Swans, C’wood x2, Bulldogs, Essendon), Mackenzie was crucial in all those games, and gave others space to run and spread, something we seem unable to do this year.

When analysed like this though, it is obvious what we need to do individually. My problem though is I still think we have the wrong gameplan, or worse, no gameplan at all, at least one we execute.

How has Jamar improved on his last season all Australian performance?

How have scully and bate performed better than mckenzie, when none have played games yet?

In fact how is bate -1 when other players who havent played a game are closer to -5?

How is petterd 0 given he had a good year last year until injured, and has done nothing this year?

Subjective numbers like this are nothing but that. This scale means nothing about where we are at. All it does is highlight that across the board players are under performing, which we already knew.

Interesting concept but as deanox said.. it is only telling us what we already know...