Search the Community

I was probably not alone in being, firstly, delighted that Paul Roos agreed to come to the MFC, and secondly, a bit sorry about how often he described us during his first year as a "2 win, 54 percentage team". Initially I thought it was an interesting measure of where the team was, but by the second half of the year I had heard enough of it. So I thought I'd test him on his own objective measures of how he has performed, remembering that Paul often says it's not about win-loss so much as fixing that percentage imbalance. 2013 Wins: 2 Position: 17th Percentage: 54 Scores 100+ For: 2 Scores 100+: 19 2014 4 17th 68 Nil 6 2015 7 13th 77 4 9 AMAZING is that in 2013 we had 100-plus scores against us in all but three games and it was not until round 16 when Geelong beat us scoring 98 points that our opposition did not hit the ton. Wins went up by 100% in 2014 and by a further 75% this year. Percentage (the test PR set store by) is up by almost half on 2013 level, and the big scores against have been cut by more than half. Finally these are the players introduced to the team since he arrived: Salem, Tyson, Cross, Michie, Vince, JKH, Riley (2014); and Hogan, Lumumba, Bradshaw, Stretch, Frost, Newton, OscarMac, Vanders, ANB and Garlett (2015). Now a subjective bit: I am strongly encouraged by what this tells us. If I was even crazier than I am I would go back through our injury lists and see how this year's results measure up but it's worth noting that we had long absences from Frost, Vanders, Salem, Kent, not to mention then missed year for Petracca.