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Blown leads

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Stats that might help, its not all bad.

TIME IN FRONT:

2015 43%

Also, I believe we might have our first Rising Star Nom later today.

You got the other clubs 2015 stats for comparison?

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    The players that are still with us that were at the club in 2011, the year of the 186 loss to Geelong, may be scarred beyond repair.

    Here are the 14:

    N. Jones

    Watts

    Trengrove

    Dunne

    Grimes

    Garland

    Gawn

    Howe

    Jetta

    Jarmar

    Spencer

    Bail

    Fitzpatrick

    T. McDonald

    Many of these were in their first year and not part of the 186 team.

    IMHO only 5 or 6 of this list deserve to still be with us.

    How many of these are scarred beyond repair, to the point that they repeatedly go into "self-preservation-mode" when we need them most?

    Edited by 66frank

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    It's not only the Demons who have given up good leads. The examples this year are a'plenty. This round Brisbane gave up a 5 goal lead to St Kilda, the E Coli Wobblers gave North a huge start, I recall Essendon giving up a huge lead at the beginning of the year to the Swans.

    It seems to be a feature of the contemporary game: teams start with a bang and then get blown away when the smoke clears. How often do you read, Such and such has scored 9 of the past 11 goals etc etc?

    Edited by dieter

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    TIME IN FRONT Comparison

    FREO 85%

    COLLINGWOOD 56%

    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Essendon 46%

    Melbourne 43%

    Nth Melb 41%

    St Kilda 39%

    Lions 21%

    Suns 21%

    Carlton 20%

    Edited by Demon3

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    The players that are still with us that were at the club in 2011, the year of the 186 loss to Geelong, may be scarred beyond repair.

    Here are the 14:

    N. Jones

    Watts

    Trengrove

    Dunne

    Grimes

    Garland

    Gawn

    Howe

    Jetta

    Jarmar

    Spencer

    Bail

    Fitzpatrick

    T. McDonald

    Many of these were in their first year and not part of the 186 team.

    IMHO only 5 or 6 of this list deserve to still be with us.

    How many of these are scarred beyond repair, to the point that they repeatedly go into "self-preservation-mode" when we need them most?

    N. Jones

    Watts

    Trengrove

    Dunne

    My humble view on these:

    Grimes - physical vs mental?

    Garland - seems ok

    Gawn - too raw to have been scarred

    Howe - maybe

    Jetta - clearly has got over it and moved on

    Jarmar - now just running out of steam after a reasonable career

    Spencer - not tainted, just slowly developing

    Bail - tainted, on just NQR?

    Fitzpatrick - see Spencer

    T. McDonald - clearly either over it or not tainted

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    Rising Star coming our way as well tonight.

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    Very dissapointing - but also it's a nod to the state of the modern game in my opinion. Momentum is a massive thing and probably most obvious in AFL. Teams are regularly pulling back all sorts of leads nowadays.

    We need to be fitter and better for longer.

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    It's not only the Demons who have given up good leads. The examples this year are a'plenty. This round Brisbane gave up a 5 goal lead to St Kilda, the E Coli Wobblers gave North a huge start, I recall Essendon giving up a huge lead at the beginning of the year to the Swans.

    It seems to be a feature of the contemporary game: teams start with a bang and then get blown away when the smoke clears. How often do you read, Such and such has scored 9 of the past 11 goals etc etc?

    Was thinking the same thing dieter. The elusive 'momentum' factor seems to be bigger this year than ever. It's very odd, and defies explanation to a large degree. Collective psychology maybe? If someone told me that it was due to a team's legal stimulants (eg caffeine) kicking in en masse, I wouldn't laugh like I might have previously. Weird!
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