Demon Dynasty

Show Tracc the Maxy short passing method please!!

Dunstan .... footsteps!???

There's a stack of holding and scragging going on ....the umps are on to it though. Traccs delivery inside 50 .... There ya go Fritta

Gus has been pretty ordinary so far. Tracca easy miss at the end of the first quarter. Dunstan a fair way off with disposal. He aint at the level we need so far. Kozzie's pretty ordinary so far as well. BBB misses from straight in front. One good sign is Clarry & Tracc getting alot of it. Spargo doing ok also. If not for Plugga !!

Round 10, 2022 Marvel - Blues vs Swans While one match doesn't make a summer i thought i'd take a look at the Blues tonight. Their team score was 1.9% higher than our 2021 season average and just above our average score this season by 0.5%. Ok so they didn't play us but they still played a top 8 (potential top four) contender, so it's not like they played an also ran club. They're certainly flying at the moment and more than likely (subject to injury issues like most clubs) going to cement a place in the top four with a strong chance of playing off in a prelim (at least). Appear to have a pretty leaky defence. They also have a pretty inexperienced team overall with no player having played over 150 games tonight & 9 rookies (less than 50 games). I would assume most of them have very little finals experience as well. Having said that, experience didn't seem to help the Swans tonight. With five players having 150 plus games experience although they also had ten rookies in the team (and i believe history says that with ten or more rookies you really struggle to beat a team with less rookies than you in any given match unless they also have 10 or higher). Average Attributes Carlton Attribute Sydney 187.5cm Height 187.6cm 86.2kg Weight 86.7kg 24yr 2mth Age 25yr 6mth 70.4 Games 104.1 Total Players By Games Carlton Games Sydney 9 Less than 50 10 7 50 to 99 3 6 100 to 149 5 0 150 or more 5 Player Score Rank Sam Walsh 5.550 1 G Hewett 5.125 2 M Kennedy 4.825 3 Nic Newman 4.550 4 Adam Saad 4.150 5 Zac Fisher 3.900 6 C Curnow # 3.875 7 Matt Owies 3.775 8 S Docherty 3.525 9 P Cripps # 3.400 10 J Weitering 3.125 11 M Cottrell 3.050 12 L Plowman 2.975 13 L Young 2.850 14 T De Koning 2.300 15 C Durdin 2.300 16 Adam Cerra 2.250 17 L O'Brien 2.150 18 L Stocker 2.050 19 J Silvagni # 1.625 20 J Motlop 0.850 21 J Carroll 0.300 22 Team Score 68.50 Top 6 28.10 Bottom 6 9.23 # Hit outs to advantage not captured Stats courtesy of footywire.com

Warner doesnt quite cut the mustard at this level. And Hickey's a bit off the mark at times under pressure. The Swans bring great effort but have too many gaping holes in their bottom 6

Wow so... "your tackle is so good Buddy boy but i dont care i'll just drop the ball and i know the ump willl call play on...woo hoo you beauty!"

Even with all the help there (50) & refusal by the umps to pay Sydney a free (had to be a high tackle there surely) in their forward 30 or so the Blues couldnt get the ball up the field and conceded another goal

Greedy by Papley there

Lmao.....karate chop to the neck in the marking contest.... play on!!

If my memory serves me correctly, history says if you go 3 to 4 goals down by quarter time you only win about 2 out of 10 times coming back from there. Fast Starts = Usually winning footy

Walsh just waltzing around front & sqaure... nobody near him. Awful Swans. At least have someone going with him in that front half to try and pressure the turnover or even better win the ball first!

Goal of the year Buddy!!??

The Blues are just as leaky as the Swans down back.... they just win a heap more of the stoppages and contested, getting it inside alot more (tonight).

Disgracefully one sided. How many times has a blue gathered, taken a few steps then either taken on the tackler / been tackled legally then either dropped the pill red hot and/or not made a realistic attempt yet no free!?? Walsh just then...broke a tackle then fair tackled immediately after but no free!! If you are not going to penalise a team for not playing to the rules of the game then good luck to the other team putting a winning score on the board.

Prevention better than cure i reckon Q. And no better week to pull out the conservative card than this week against Norf eh

Lets hope Melk has his kicking accuracy working (both at goal & kicks coming inside). Without that im not sure what other assets he actually brings as a HF/Mid. If he can't bring that in the next few weeks then we should be getting a few more games into Bedford well before finals IMV. If Melk brings that plus his 2018 intensity then he will most likely have met the role the FD are hoping for. Should be able to bring this against the lowly Norf this week as a minimum.

A super talent. Hopefully not permanently lost to the game. I enjoyed watching him from day one. Hope he manages to sort things out and maybe make a return at some point. Maybe for us!!

Nice. A Narrm flag would have been good as well

My guess is the FD are looking to share the love around in order to keep their preferred next rung of players up and about and at the level (AFL worthy) in case needed to cover off injuries late in the season. Otherwise the preferences (around the middle anyway) would surely have to be Bedders or Dunstan in most cases. The four in the mix seem to be Melk, Weid, Bedders & Dunstan.

Guys can anyone comfirm if training is tomorrow and if so i assume we are still doing Casey due to Gosch's development?

Fabulous addition for this club. The last loss i saw was against GWS last year at the G and had BBB been brought in a week or so earlier for that match i reckon we probably would have won that as well. Our forward line just isnt as effective without a fully fit and firing BBB. Super hard match up for the opp and means plugga gets the 2nd best defender which is real handy for us. Understands the nuances of forward craft also with a deft hand in to spoil the opp, lovely kicks around the corner, short passes to a free player in a better spot on occasions, doesnt get sucked up the ground as often as some recognising the benefit of holding a tall forward deep for the joe the goose or fat side mark on the lead etc. Draws a few extra frees also because of the height factor. What a way to celebrate his 150 against his old mob. Hope he kicks 10!

All good LDC... ED = Effective Disposals ITC = Intercepts

As we know he really stepped things up last season. Appears he may have taken things to yet another level in 2022 with a 31% overall improvement on last year's weighted (statistical averages) score. Has really blossomed into a reliable key role player who makes a difference on most game days assisting other team mates to carry out their roles more effectively. Interesting to note a significant drop off in inside 50s (hence less tackles inside 50 even though overall tackle average is up!) and clearances. On the flip side rebound 50s, intercepts and score involvements are up substantially. His disposal efficiency has also improved substantially and now super close to AFL standard from a pretty low 63% last season. Could this mean a bit of a role change this season where he is being asked to push back a little deeper to help out down back? Also spending less time at the coal face (clearances down) allowing him to get involved in more scoring chains (score involvements up) and put his energy to good use with more accurate disposals in general? My only worry here is...who (if anyone) is making up the drop off inside 50 from a pressure (tackle) perspective which is quite a substantial average differential (ie; down 1.4 tackles each match)? (Note: take no notice of the contested mark % increase as it's coming off an extremely low 2021 average). #30 A Neil Bullen 2021 2022 % Change CP 6.64 7.13 7.3 UP 9.36 11.38 21.5 ED 9.77 13.00 33.1 DE% 62.97 72.86 9.9 CM 0.09 0.25 177.8 Mi50 0.59 0.63 5.9 1% 1.27 1.13 -11.4 CL 1.91 0.88 -54.2 R50 0.68 1.00 47.1 i50 4.00 3.13 -21.9 T 4.55 5.13 12.6 Si 4.32 6.75 56.3 MG 265.09 252.38 -4.8 TO 3.91 3.75 -4.1 ITC 1.86 2.88 54.6 T50 1.91 0.50 -73.8 TOG% 74.59 82.38 7.8 G 0.59 0.25 -57.6 Weighted Score 2.387 3.138 31.5

Spargo climbing the stat sheet..... https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/1129810