This is a useless stat. Should be looking at how many free kicks teams get that weren't there. EG. the amount of times players drive their heads in tacklers and draw the free

Attached is a representation of Carlton's season, in terms of Disposals (D), Contested Possessions (CP), Clearances (CLR), Tackles (T) and Frees Against (FA). Frees Against is displayed on a different scale (right hand side) as the volumes are so low it wouldn't demonstrate the point. I'd suggest from a season perspective they were about their mark on each of those stats, except one.....

I realise stats don't tell the whole story, but this is poking me in the eye (with no free kick paid). Sure we may not have been first to the ball all day, but I haven't seen a rule stating if you're first to the ball you can't be penalised. The rules still state you must either dispose of the ball legally if first to the ball, or tackle legally if second to the ball.

Disclaimer: Not saying we would have won, simply stating this game was very unusual in regards to the free kick count of one team.

22 hours ago, old dee said:

The umpires did not cost us the game we achieved that all on our own. 

Every losing team has a handy excuse blame the umpires.

 

Pretty sure i was complaining about the free kick coq-ups in the Hawthorn/Melbourne Game and Port/Melbourne Game as well, both of which we won?

12 hours ago, willmoy said:

Pretty sure i was complaining about the free kick coq-ups in the Hawthorn/Melbourne Game and Port/Melbourne Game as well, both of which we won?

It was more a general comment willmoy. I just take little notice of free kick ratios. While in some games there are glaring errors they seldom IMO affect the result of a game. As supporters we tend to only remember the howlers against us.

The game against Carlton was lost because we let them dictate the play and we were very inaccurate in field kicking and scoring goals.