Demon Dynasty

Weighted Average Scores up to & including Rnd 10 , 2021 vs 2019 Player 2021 Score 2021 Rank 2019 Score % Change vs 2019 2019 Rank Change in Rank vs 2019 Clayton Oliver 5.580 1 4.643 20.18 1 0 C Salem 4.386 2 3.658 19.90 3 1 Steven May 3.982 3 2.446 62.80 14 11 C Petracca 3.915 4 2.616 49.66 10 6 Ed Langdon 3.818 5 Max Gawn # 3.690 6 3.256 13.33 4 -2 Jake Lever 3.608 7 2.313 55.99 17 10 James Harmes 3.500 8 3.850 -9.09 2 -6 Jack Viney 3.450 9 3.068 12.45 5 -4 A Brayshaw 3.075 10 2.894 6.25 6 -4 James Jordan 3.011 11 Jayden Hunt 2.819 12 1.958 43.97 22 10 K Pickett 2.705 13 T McDonald # 2.693 14 2.150 25.26 19 5 M Hibberd 2.679 15 2.124 26.13 20 5 Trent Rivers 2.513 16 M Brown* 2.475 17 A Tomlinson 2.475 17 Luke Jackson # 2.472 19 Oskar Baker* 2.325 20 1.714 35.65 29 9 Nathan Jones 2.214 21 2.711 -18.33 7 -14 Alex N-Bullen 2.213 22 1.984 11.54 21 -1 Bayley Fritsch 2.181 23 2.641 -17.42 9 -14 Charlie Spargo 2.140 24 1.375 55.64 35 11 Tom Sparrow 2.087 25 1.075 94.14 37 12 J Melksham 2.083 26 1.931 7.87 23 -3 H Petty 1.869 27 1.905 -1.89 24 -3 Neville Jetta 1.865 28 2.264 -17.62 18 -10 Ben Brown # 1.575 29 Sam Weideman 1.513 30 1.818 -16.78 27 -3 Kade Chandler* 0.250 31 Average Team Score - Top 22 69.60 59.62 16.73 # Hit outs to advantage not captured # Hit outs to advantage not captured * Only played one match not an average score Stats courtesy of footywire.com

Setting a high bar there DS. If he played most games like the best game an MFC player's probably played in the last 5 years per yesterday i'd be in footy Shangri-La!

Has had multiple opportunities and over 5 years to come good Kent. Should have started to come in to the prime of his career by now at 23/24. Was his time to shine/impact at least once on the scoreboard in the last two weeks and show that he's finally coming good. See LJ / Geogiardes. Would rather play Mitch Brown at this point if they aren't bringing BB in.

Mate forget Lever's. Try the instinctive play / attempt by Spargo (i think) in our forward flank/pocket area who under pressure looked to toe poke the ball ahead of him in the hope he might be able to run on to it and we were pinged for intentional in our own forward line FFS. Talk about a bunch of cheaters. They had it in for us all night.

Most clubs usually have multiple players (who are nearest those questionable decisions) remonstrating with the umpires, throwing their hands up and some would even grab the ball and look to go back over an imaginary mark to take the free in that instance. Where were our blokes as you say? I don't think there was one demonstrating? This and also the lack of love for Clarry and pretty much anyone who scored on the night was pretty disappointing for me. It was the most switched off, selfish, non-thinking dumb down the line / bombing game i've seen all year from too many. Ability for our talls to separate and find space on their men on the lead seemingly non-existent. The most disappointing aspect was no possession/momentum option all night, especially after Clarry had seemingly kicked the winning goal to put us 16 up. Zero leadership at that instance. The boys need to be more aware of moments in a game where it's better to slow play momentum and eat up the clock as well as close down zoning space on their opponents. And / or if things are getting out of hand, switch to man on man for as long as it takes to wrestle back momentum earlier in matches. But then are players like Melk, Frittz and Weid even up to this latter option. There'd be loose players everywhere out of our forward 50 with those three playing. On tonight's effort we might make a PF but it will need a serious reset and some dropping of some seriously soft/lazy mature/seniors who appear to be either comfortable or happy coasting along and/or not up to finals pressure footy/not doing the little things needed to play finals footy. BB in for the Weid vs the Dogs pls. I've yet to see him stand up against the tide and/or coming from behind in most of his matches. Appears to go to water. Hopefully Viney back in for Melk who could be anything if he ever knuckled down and got down and dirty for four quarters in and around the packs. Yes, sometimes even the silk needs to play ugly and get some contested ground balls/Tackles on your opponent. If a rookie in Kozzie does it sometimes (ok not so good at much of anything last night) then surely a senior can. Rarely does and rarely looks like he wants to go when it's his turn. Too easily brushed aside at ground contests and will often only put in one good quarter or two then go missing. If he was silk for three or four quarters, ok you might be able to overlook his other difficiencies a little. He isn't a junior. He's played a stack of footy and needs to occasionally dominate up forward but rarely does. Being the best kick coming inside 50, on its own, just won't cut it at this level if you can't find the pill very often and go missing for big chunks in many matches when the heat is on. No finals team worth their salt can afford to have 3 medium/tall mark & kick players in their forward 50 who offer very little at ground level defensively. Fritta probably the best at mopping up at ground level has some credits but needs some further learnings, including not leading to within a meter of the pocket boundary line so often and finding his opponent's shoulder/tackling more often. A few matches at Casey might allow him to work on aspects of his game, particularly the stuff without ball in hand. Having said that i don't see a viable replacement. Possibly Chunk for a few matches? Bedford as a smaller change up to work at the feet of BB, TMac and LJ alongside Kozzie & ANB? Either option probably not ideal but i can see an opportunity to improve here at Casey and hopefully come back a more switched on consistent player defensively at ground level post the bye. He's super handy in the air and at mopping up some spills when on but needs some finishing school in these other areas IMV if we're to play a winning brand up forward in finals. Hopefully last night was an aberration and against a rated club i wouldn't be all that concerned with the outcome at all. But we are talking a bottom four club with 13 rookies on the night. Some adjustments, hard work and smartening up needed on the track, at the selection table and above the shoulders if we're to make and win a prelim from here. Along with a bit of luck.

Rnd 9, 2021 Adelaide Oval - Crows vs Demons Take a bow Clayton! Statistically his highest ranked game since compiling these charts (2017) and also the highest of any MFC player during that period. Let's review this one as i doubt you will see a result on paper like this too often, if ever... ? 28 Effective Disposals running at 73.7% efficiency. The AFL average is approx 73%. Highest on the day (just) with next best Laird on 27 running at 77% efficiency. Not bad either and played a very solid game for the eaters. ? 3 Goals ? 1 contested mark and one mark inside 50. ? 2 x One Percenters ? 13 Clearances (the highest on the field and more than double that of the nearest Crow's player...Laird on 6). ? 3 Rebounds ? 8 inside 50s (Tracc leading overall with 11, best for the Crows Smith with 6). ? 9 Tackles, one of those inside 50. Equal most on the day with Jordan. Best of the Crows Laird & Keays with 7 each. ? 11 Score Involvements. The most on the day with Tracc, Tex & Laird coming in equal 2nd on 8 each. ? 8 Intercepts, the second most on the night. Lever winning this on the day with a massive 17! Has to be some sort of record? ? 626 Meters gained. Third best on the night behind Seedsman 657 and Tracc at No.1 with 731. ? Turnovers 6. To put that in some context Tracc had 11 (way too many even for a high pressure mid role), Ed 8 and ANB 9. Our overall team score of 59.0 was a massive 18% off our season average prior to this match and 1% worse than our entire ordinary 2019 season average! Surprisingly this was not our worst team score however. That occurred against the Swans with a lowly 55.88 However, our bottom 6 score of 6.78 was our worst for the season, 25% lower than our season average. What's the old saying, you're only as good as your bottom 6 players? I'll leave you with one other stat....the Crows had a massive 13 players with under 50 games under their belt tonight. If my memory serves me correctly, very few teams ever win at AFL level once they have 10 or more rookies (who i consider as players with under 50 games) in their team vs a team with around only 6/7 or less. Making yesterday's result even more worrying IMV. Adelaide Games Melbourne 13 Less than 50 7 2 50 to 99 4 1 100 to 149 6 6 150 or more 5 Hope we don't sweep this one under the carpet and review in a big way prior to moving on to the Doggies as there were some significant deficiencies on show tonight vs a bottom four team. A far chunk of it intensity and above the shoulders from too many in that first half IMV which gave them belief. Hopefully only a one week aberration. Plenty of work to do on the track. Need to fix the zoning off issue when a team gets momentum and too much of the ball. Tonight reminded me a little of the 2nd round Geelong game in 2019 where we almost played the game in our own back half, allowing the Cats to skip around the back at will and hit targets on the 45 far too often, then make multiple launches deep inside 50. The Crows stretched us on the switch today and found us out on a number of occasions hitting up loose players with penetrating kicks forward of center, who were then able to launch inside 50. Also our pressure inside 50 just wasn't near our usual this season with only LJ & T-Mac hitting double figures for tackles inside 50. Our small and medium forwards... Fritschkreig, Melk, Spargo, Kozzie & ANB laid only three tackles inside 50 between them! Melk & Fritsch laying zero inside 50 and none anywhere else on the day. Sorry but that's just not good enough at this level and screams lack of effort without ball in hand. Both will be very lucky to keep their spots this week IMHO although Fritsch may have a few credits left in the bank vs Melk. Player Score Rank Clayton Oliver 8.400 1 Christian Petracca 4.800 2 Max Gawn # 4.625 3 Angus Brayshaw 4.300 4 Jake Lever 4.100 5 James Harmes 3.350 6 Steven May 3.350 7 Ed Langdon 3.150 8 Michael Hibberd 2.600 9 Trent Rivers 2.575 10 Luke Jackson # 2.250 11 Sam Weideman 2.075 12 Neville Jetta 1.775 13 Kysaiah Pickett 1.750 14 Jake Melksham 1.650 15 Charlie Spargo 1.475 16 Tom McDonald 1.475 16 Harrison Petty 1.425 18 Alex N-Bullen 1.325 19 Jayden Hunt 1.050 20 James Jordon 0.975 21 Bayley Fritsch 0.525 22 Team Score 59.00 Top 6 29.58 Bottom 6 6.78 # Hit outs to advantage not captured Stats courtesy of footywire.com

Agreed in the first half it was way too lax. Reminded me of old Melb. We were also tentative at the contest and double handling / fumbling alot. The pressure only came in the second half or about 10 minutes in to the second half. Clarry lead the way and some followed but many weren't able to lift towards their best. Gus one of the ones i thought had a much better half but coming off a low base in the first half.

We went from the hunters to the hunted tonight. And too many went missing in the first half. Until we learn to travel better (a la the Tigers) we won't be a genuine contender

Salem and Chunk for Melk pls

Omg...as deliberate as it gets....no free haha. Joke fest! TALK ABOUT HOME DECISIONS.

How was that not holdimg the ball...what load of Crow crap that was. And the throw in earlier was like at right angels towards the Crow end. What a joke

Tmac needed to at least bring that ball to ground there. Bit harsh probably? Had a pretty ordinary night for his standard this year. That was a free to Kozzie....incorrect disposal!

Clarrrrrrrrrŕrrŕrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyy!!!!!

A rare stoppage i50 ...and a goal from Ed your fricken beauty son!

JJ two very poor kicks in this last few minutes

How was that not a free to Ed for front on contact!

Kozzie should take as many of the kick in marks as possible. We've given them far too much acreage off that kick in far too often for most if this match

Clarry best for us by a mile

Clarry everywhere this quarter and taking over in the middle and around stoppages. The Barometer and quite often the difference in many tight matches.

Great follow up work from LJ there! Exactly what's needed up forward

Will Tracc ever learn to go back and assess before automatically rolling onto his right so often and looking to hit up a ghost inside 50 and/or putting himself under pressure. Both him and Clarry need serious work on their craft around the arc, coming inside 50 and shooting at goal from about 40 meters and closer on a set shot (mostly Clarry in this last dept). Very nice goal from Tracc on the Arc there

Spoke too soon! Maxy. Crappy effort from Ed also

Good to see Gawny learned from his previous deep defending effort and punched instead of trying to mark on the last line

Yep especially in our forward half. Kozzie & Spargod rarely sighted. Both having a mare need to get VERY busy in the second half.

May simply has to stay on Tex. He's their outlet kick down the line and one of the best kicks coming inside 50. Petty on him is gifting them an opportunity to stay in it and/or win the match.