6 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

I am surprised they had Petracca playing 65% forward against St Kilda. I thought he played a normal split between midfield and forward last week.

The difference with the Carlton game was that he played as a full forward. This made sense given the wet conditions and he was invisible in the midfield early in the game (and Fritsch was not effective as our deepest forward).

In dry conditions, I think he is better up in the midfield and Fritsch offers us more as our primary one-on-one target inside 50.

1 hour ago, Demonland said:

 

Very interesting.  There's no doubt we're trying to get some scoring power and probably retention i50 happening from CP5.  As well as making it a difficult match up for the oppo.

I also think it's a great mix for us as it will help him to shake off any hard tags.

It also brings ANB into the mid field where his last kick inside is our best at the moment and should help improve connection rates.

It says Tracc's highest rated games were vs the Blues & the Saints.

I have his best rating as Rnd 2 vs the Hawks (6.5) and Rnd 1 vs the Doggies (6.0)

Looking back through his season ratings, although sitting at No.1 rank this year so far, his best H&A season in the red & blue to date was 2023.

He may better that this year and was on track to do so prior to about Rnd 8 before copping some heavy tags since and having to fight his way through those.  Ratings reflecting that since imv.

Petracca's H&A Season Ratings ...

2018 - 2.94

2019 - 2.62

2020 - 3.56

2021 - 4.04

2022 - 4.46

2023 - 4.70

2024 (to Rnd 11) - 4.47

Edited June 1, 20241 yr by Demon Dynasty

essentially what cal seems to be saying here is that petracca is a superstar no matter where he plays?

captain obvious called!

this whole 'we should play trac forward all the time' theory is NEVER going to happen; he's one of the most dynamic players in the game, and he goes where he's needed at any time, be that running thru the midfield or stationed forward

he's a gun, and one of the most 'personable' players in the competition to boot

58 minutes ago, Fat Tony said:

I am surprised they had Petracca playing 65% forward against St Kilda. I thought he played a normal split between midfield and forward last week.

The difference with the Carlton game was that he played as a full forward. This made sense given the wet conditions and he was invisible in the midfield early in the game (and Fritsch was not effective as our deepest forward).

In dry conditions, I think he is better up in the midfield and Fritsch offers us more as our primary one-on-one target inside 50.

It's such a small sample size though that Cal is going with.

And all of our mids were invisible early in the game against Carlton. 

I think we still need to use Trac in the middle, but totally happy with a 60-40 or 65-35 split depending on the game.