Credit To Du Bois

Can’t copy across properly on my phone but I posted about our inside 50s on the post-game thread https://demonland.com/forums/topic/67060-postgame-rd-02-vs-fremantle/page/5/#findComment-2761114 Not quite as fun to look at as last week, but you can view the inside 50s here https://charting.football/i50/?matchName=2026%20R2%20-%20FRE%20v%20MEL Fritsch our most common target (9 times for 5 marks/frees, 2 spoils, and 2 out of bounds) JVR targeted 6 times for the one mark, and Mihocek 4 times for 1 mark and 1 retained, both JVR and Mihocek's marks coming barely inside the 50 though so not particularly high quality ones (unlike last week). Kosi targeted 4 times, two times (from CJ and Chandler) an uncontested mark to Freo, one time (from Windsor) had Pickett having to effect a spoil. We went inside with no identified target 19 times (last week it was just 4 times) and the results were as expected - 1 mark by Kosi, three ground balls retained, seven direct turnovers, and the rest being spoils etc. leading to ground balls (where we were getting killed for most of the nigh). If we look at kickers Steele was the most prolific (definitely not calling him top) with 7, resulting in 3 uncontested freo marks, 1 contested freo mark, one out on the full, and two spoils by the freo defender. Culley the only kicker to find multiple marks inside 50, but both uncontested with minimal distance on the kick to the arc with a decent angle for the kicker. On the other side, Bolton found 2 marks as well as kicking two goals himself from outside 50. Freo scored 5 goals from outside 50 from 8 shots total. Defensively Turner and Gawn managed contested marks to intercept an inside 50, Gawn x 2, Lever x 2, and Salem managed uncontested ones. Turner got 3 spoils, two on balls intended for Amiss and one an undirected Serong entry. Tholstrup and CJ with 2 d50 spoils each, Petty, Lever, and Lindsay with singles.

Not quite as fun to look at as last week, but you can view the inside 50s here https://charting.football/i50/?matchName=2026%20R2%20-%20FRE%20v%20MEL Fritsch our most common target (9 times for 5 marks/frees, 2 spoils, and 2 out of bounds) JVR targeted 6 times for the one mark, and Mihocek 4 times for 1 mark and 1 retained, both JVR and Mihocek's marks coming barely inside the 50 though so not particularly high quality ones (unlike last week). Kosi targeted 4 times, two times (from CJ and Chandler) an uncontested mark to Freo, one time (from Windsor) had Pickett having to effect a spoil. We went inside with no identified target 19 times (last week it was just 4 times) and the results were as expected - 1 mark by Kosi, three ground balls retained, seven direct turnovers, and the rest being spoils etc. leading to ground balls (where we were getting killed for most of the nigh). If we look at kickers Steele was the most prolific (definitely not calling him top) with 7, resulting in 3 uncontested freo marks, 1 contested freo mark, one out on the full, and two spoils by the freo defender. Culley the only kicker to find multiple marks inside 50, but both uncontested with minimal distance on the kick to the arc with a decent angle for the kicker. On the other side, Bolton found 2 marks as well as kicking two goals himself from outside 50. Freo scored 5 goals from outside 50 from 8 shots total. Defensively Turner and Gawn managed contested marks to intercept an inside 50, Gawn x 2, Lever x 2, and Salem managed uncontested ones. Turner got 3 spoils, two on balls intended for Amiss and one an undirected Serong entry. Tholstrup and CJ with 2 d50 spoils each, Petty, Lever, and Lindsay with singles.

Hey friends, I wrote about our new look for this week's edition of This Week In Football. I've also developed a tool for displaying all kicks into F50 for the year, which you can find here: https://charting.football/i50/ Once you select the filters you want, you can hit the copy link button and it will copy a custom url to your clipboard that will pre-fill those settings, so if I wanted to show you all the kicks into 50 from Sunday targetting Checkers I could go: https://charting.football/i50/?matchName=2026%20R1%20-%20MEL%20v%20STK&target=Brody%20Mihocek

I ended up putting my thoughts down on Goody's tenure here: https://credittodubois.com/blog/history-doesnt-repeat-itself-but-often-it-rhymes I fall more on the glass half full side of things (with the exception of 2025). Thought it was worth having some things out there of that bent given most of what I've read published is pretty negative on him.