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Goal Accuracy 2022

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We knew that it would come back and bite us on the bum, we were poor in front of goal last year and our inaccuracy has continued and is now affecting our ability to kick a decent score or open up a decent break against lower teams. It has affected ANB, BBB & Traccs potency as a forward. Mark Williams come on down from the DNA to smarten this group of wasters up !!!

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    Imagine how low on the table  we'd be if we didn't kick 19.6 against GWS.

    Our first half accuracy was excellent last week, but we essentially lost the game in the third quarter with 1.5. 

    We clearly need to take our chances when we play Brisbane in a couple of weeks given how 'dead eye' they've been this year.

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    1 minute ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Imagine how low on the table  we'd be if we didn't kick 19.6 against GWS.

    Our first half accuracy was excellent last week, but we essentially lost the game in the third quarter with 1.5. 

    We clearly need to take our chances when we play Brisbane in a couple of weeks given how 'dead eye' they've been this year.

    In the past two weeks our last halves have been costly. 1.5 and 1.1 in the last two quarters in the Sydney match and 1.2 and 0.4 in the Freo Match. That’s 3 goals 12 behinds to 16 goals 9 to our opposition in the last half over the last 2 weeks. That’s 105 to 30 over 2 weeks in the 2nd half. 75 point deficit. Surely that is a worrying sign.

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    Our goal accuracy is a reflection on our game plan of kicking into the pockets. It makes it more difficult for the opposition to get the ball out but gives us more shots from tighter angles. 

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    5 hours ago, FarNorthernD said:

    Our goal accuracy is a reflection on our game plan of kicking into the pockets. It makes it more difficult for the opposition to get the ball out but gives us more shots from tighter angles. 

    This. Sure, there have been games where we've kicked poorly, but using goals vs behinds as a of measure accuracy is laughably crude. There are better measures out there which take into account where shots are taken from.

    Goal kicking falls into the same category as umpiring IMO - easy to blame after a loss rather than concede we were outplayed on the day, but in reality is rarely influential in the result.

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    We are unreliable in front of goal. Just look back at the richmond game.

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    40 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    We lost last week the moment Ben Brown shanked a kick he normally slots 99 times out last week.

    True. Also Fritsch had a set shot which I was ready to bank in Q4 - he didn't register a score which is unlike him in recent years. Gawn too with the close range checkside. I think that's why the Sydney game burned for so many fans, we were down but probably still could have won. 

     

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    2 hours ago, DemonWA said:

    True. Also Fritsch had a set shot which I was ready to bank in Q4 - he didn't register a score which is unlike him in recent years. Gawn too with the close range checkside. I think that's why the Sydney game burned for so many fans, we were down but probably still could have won. 

     

    Fritta’s miss was massively demoralising, it was such an awful shank from a usually dead eye. That was the moment for me, even Max’s checkside miss wasn’t as heartbreaking as that. 

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    3 hours ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    We lost last week the moment Ben Brown shanked a kick he normally slots 99 times out of 100.

    To be fair, the swans had 7 more scoring shots than us and missed plenty of gimme goals themselves. Would have been daylight robbery if we'd pinched it.

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