Demon Dynasty

The other thing about the Blues... just their general pressure. Bog ordinary all night without the pill. Would love to have seen the pressure acts count and the pressure ratings during parts of that game. 7 might've shown the ratings... might have missed it. The crows look good, especially with Tex / Fogarty being allowed to get so many one v ones (the Blues don't drop off and assist very well or often!). The Crows were also allowed to prance out of mid field alot under very low pressure hitting leads at will far too often. Crow's defence is also pretty leaky for mine.

Laurie had an excellent game at Casey last week and uaually goes ok in the wet. We wouldn't go with a forward line with four talls in shiiitefest weather surely?

Lever out is a real bugger. Our backline uaually struggles without one of wither him or May not playing. Tomo in to replace but he's not like for like. It"s a pitty Disco wasn't up & about as he may have been in the mix to replace if he had some games under his belt & in decent form.

Any sign of Harmes returning? Track watchers? Kev??

Blues defence 😬 Zone working well 🙄 Two way running / general effort 🤔 Selfless acts / Team first ethos 😵‍💫 No genuine (damaging) ruckman Bit of a dog's breakfast really but apparently they're top 4 material (or better!) if you believe half of the media hype.

Hilarious stuff from Dwayne I take whatever is said on SEN, 7 etc with a grain of salt. They're all beholden to their masters and the mega broadcasting contracts / $$ on offer. Tow the AFL line, always push / promote the big clubs (by number of members) and don't rock any boats! Very much a directed and muzzled bunch now. Anyone that speaks their mind is at risk. I wonder if Cooney's spot on 'Armchair Experts' is at risk after speaking his mind about concussion on that d'[censored] reality show lately (no i didn't watch it...saw him on a promo). Don't think Gil would've been too happy.

Great news. Important to keep as many premiership players still in their prime on the list. Next up Kozzy within approx two weeks

Weather forecast suggests armageddon during our match. Might be better to play Jordan as sub and bring him on for a tall if super ugly Tracc could then play more time forward once JJ is subbed in

Usually in the sand?

I didnt say 'who' was needing to visit spec savers It was more directed at those saying he looked 'off' on the weekend. Settle down peeps 🤪

A few posters have been to spec savers and a few might need to go. Statistically speaking he was our 2nd highest rated forward on Sunday behind Macca and apart from missing a few gettables he was in our top 10 rated players (ranked 8th) on the day. Easily in our top 5 based on averages so far this season. Roughly equal 4th with Reg Grundee.

Everyone!

It's opposite day baby!

Good song. Viney might start his own band after zero votes... Viney's Vitriol! First big hit... "No Votes Today"

If we go the Caulfield option we might even get a kick starter out of Diamond Joe and some of his business buddies. A bit of loose change... say $25 mill !

Good luck getting it from normal lending channels. Ppl i talk to on the gravy train say their usual business lending book has been cut by 50% (so far!) under instruction from the top brass. Credit squeeze is on

No love for Viney 🙄

https://www.theroar.com.au/2023/04/11/afl-power-rankings-round-4-a-giant-jinx-flagpies-no-more-and-st-kilda-marches-on/

Yes no arguments from me on the role play sit. Especially that of 2021! There's so much we arent privy to with role play/fitness/loads etc... Anything we.discuss is mostly pure speculation in most cases yes?? 😂 It's too early to be making calls on any player's form anyway imv. Sometimes their form can turn around in one week as we saw with Viney against WC and they're off to the races with everyone quickly forgetting about a few early season (seemingly) out-of-character performances (whether marginal or otherwise).

Tentative in a physical contact/tackling sense maybe? Tackle average down 40% on 2021 (3.68 to 2.19) Looking at meters gained (average) he was up a massive 80% on 2021 though with 410 (2022) vs 227 (2021). Extra meters gained might also be a product of role being asked and/or ground position (kick ins from the square/lateral kicks around the back)? Seemed to play in the defensive 50 a fair bit more during 2022 and potentially a fair degree less down the attacking end.. Average Rebounds 2021 0.36 2022 5.57 Inside 50s 2021 2.59 2022 2.14 Goals (accuracy might have been off though...would need to check shots at goal!) 2021 1.59 2022 0.10

His turnover average (so far) is down 35% on last season's average. Meters gained (-40%) & inside 50s (-66%) also substantially down though. Not a big clearance role/player but marginally down here also (-24%) Slight change of role or maybe going lateral / backwards a bit more? FWIW... tackles (+8%) and score involvements (+11%) marginally up. Whatever that means.

Weighted Average Ratings up to & including Rnd 4, 2023 vs H&A Season 2022 Team rating (top 22 rated players) still tracking strongly above 2022 season & well above 2021's 67.23 rating (+12.3%) Note: Last week's season ratings were somewhat inaccurate for a few players. Now corrected ! Player 2023 Rating 2023 Rank 2022 Rating % Change vs 2022 2022 Rank Change in Rank vs 2022 C Oliver 5.688 1 5.320 6.92 1 0 C Petracca 4.475 2 4.456 0.43 2 0 J Jordon > * 4.274 3 3.164 35.08 9 6 K Pickett 4.250 4 2.118 100.66 21 17 T Rivers 4.156 5 2.423 71.52 18 13 Max Gawn # < * 4.125 6 3.215 28.30 8 2 A Brayshaw 3.781 7 3.839 -1.51 5 -2 Jack Viney 3.567 8 3.971 -10.17 3 -5 B Grundy # 3.544 9 - - - - Steven May 3.413 10 3.971 -14.05 3 -7 Jake Lever 3.369 11 2.703 24.64 14 3 A Tomlinson 3.263 12 2.079 56.95 22 10 L Hunter 3.069 13 - - - - Ed Langdon 3.031 14 3.109 -2.51 11 -3 Alex N-Bullen 2.975 15 2.688 10.68 15 0 T McDonald # 2.917 16 1.939 50.44 26 10 Jake Bowey 2.894 17 2.856 1.33 13 -4 K Chandler 2.744 18 3.128 -12.28 10 -8 T Sparrow 2.513 19 2.665 -5.70 16 -3 Bayley Fritsch 2.500 20 1.936 29.13 27 7 H Petty # 2.488 21 2.392 4.01 19 -2 Judd McVee 2.456 22 - - - - J V Rooyen # 2.350 23 - - - - J Harmes 2.225 24 3.082 -27.81 12 -12 C Spargo 2.131 25 1.981 7.57 24 -1 Ben Brown # < 2.033 26 1.759 15.58 29 3 M Hibberd * 1.788 27 2.613 -31.57 17 -10 B Laurie < * 1.150 28 - - - - J Melksham > * 1.012 29 1.947 -48.02 25 -4 Team Rating 75.49 68.89 9.58 * Played less than two full matches (in total) - average rating compromised # Hit outs to advantage not counted < Subbed Out at least once or more > Subbed In at least once or more Stats courtesy of footwire.com

OK so this could be a bit deceiving NC, depending on what one person might see as the more important key indicators (from vanilla publicly available footy stats anyway). The table below shows Gus's season averages so far vs those from his entire 2022 season. There is certainly a substantial drop off in certain stats that go towards his weighted rating (2022 & 2023), however some of them were off a very low base in the 2022 season. This means their contribution to the 2022 weighted rating was already fairly insignificant. Hence the % drop off may seem quite substantial (in a percentage sense) but its impact on the rating number isn't as dramatic as might be expected. His 2023 rating is also propped up somewhat by some factors such as tackles and score involvements being up, plus turnovers being down substantially vs 2022. Caveat though... although turnovers are well down, this might also be a factor of his dropping away in key areas (for Gus) like clearances, rebounds and inside 50s. In general it would seem he is just not getting on the receiving end 'as much' as he was in 2022 (two way running/work rate off a little?). The meters gained drop off is also concerning! Again work rate or maybe not as attacking in his general play / method as he was in 2022? Going lateral / backwards a little more etc? Early days though with only 4 matches of data to go on. So no point crucifying him at this stage imv as he has plenty of credits and more than enough time to start turning some of the not-so-good things around. In summary i would say those rating his season as a bit off (so far) are, in the main, on the money....but it is early days! I'm sure Gus & those involved with him inside the four walls will also be well aware of some of these numbers (in a real game 'involvement/output/impact' sense... not so much a numbers sense!). I'm sure he'll crank things up over the coming weeks. Not panic stations by any means but he's certainly got a bit of work ahead if he's to get back to somewhere near his 2022 / 2021 form/groove. Note: An asterisk in this table indicates the stat is used towards the weighted rating #10 A Brayshaw 2022 2023 % Change CP 7.73 6.00 -22.4 UP 18.45 14.75 -20.1 ED* 18.68 17.25 -7.7 DE% 72.35 82.73 10.4 CM* 0.55 0.00 -100.0 Mi50* 0.00 0.00 - 1%* 1.55 1.25 -19.1 CL* 1.64 1.25 -23.6 R50* 3.64 2.75 -24.4 i50* 2.95 1.00 -66.2 T* 2.09 2.25 7.6 Si* 3.82 4.25 11.3 MG 423.09 252.50 -40.3 TO* 5.00 3.25 -35.0 ITC* 7.36 7.50 1.9 T5* 0.05 0.00 - TOG% 83.32 85.00 1.7 G* 0.05 0.00 - 2022 Rating 3.839 2023 Rating 3.781 %Change -1.49