Our game plan is very much stoppage focused. Having a ruck that can dictate terms from throw ins and ball ups is crucial. Grundy was clearly BoG last night. He dominated the ruck and dominated the play, monstered all of our other players when the ball was near by. If we had Grundy, we win by 4 goals easy.I agree with what Buckley said in his presser last night and have for a long time ie. Hit outs is an irrelevant stat. Also hit outs to advantage not much better.
Hit outs 54-4, hit outs to advantage 21-1 unless the hit to advantage is to a player in the clear running away(which happened 2-3 times last night) they don't correlate to an advantage either, the opposition mids cover him and he is swamped in a tackle or a turnover is forced.
Time to ditch the hit out stat.