Player Watch #13 Clayton Oliver – UNPRECEDENTED 4 x B&F, 3 x AA, 2 x AFLCA Winner and Premiership Player

[Higgs Boson]

That is correct ... HOWEVER! ... because averages are only shown to one decimal place, his average disposals are rounded up to be 30/game.

I also read today that he leads the league for loose ball gets, which apparently CD rates a lot higher because it generally represents a clean disposal at the end of it.

EDIT: Ah Ah Ah

Liked purely for the Ah Ah Ah

 

[TheCount]

Liked purely for the Ah Ah Ah

I'm comfortable with that.

 

[stretcharmstrong]

Yeah he got 3 weeks for shoving a bloke. Everyone in the media sooked about punching and the AFL over corrected it to the point where something thats not even worthy of a free kick game day is getting weeks. Problem is the AFL allowing the media to dictate the game.

Um, and the MRP being completely without clear process or transparency or integrity

 

[MUYB]

Hard ball (gathering the ball under immediate physical pressure [guy in contact with you/hanging off you])
Dangerfield
Oliver
Kennedy
M.Crouch
T.Mitchell

Loose ball (gathering the ball without immediate physical pressure [small amount of space])
Oliver
Ablett
Neale
M. Crouch
Lyons


Ground ball (combines the two)
Oliver
Dangerfield
M. Crouch
Kennedy
T. Mitchell
Unprecedented.

 

[Djcjdees]

Hard ball (gathering the ball under immediate physical pressure [guy in contact with you/hanging off you])
Unprecedented.

Yep. Most certainly unprecedented

 

[booshboy]

Yep. Most certainly unprecedented

It definitely hasnt happened before.

 

[JP2]

30 disposals today, so missed out on the average of 30 by 1 disposal. Incredibly he never had less than 24 disposals across all 22 games. I wonder if that's ever happened before?

(EDIT: Tom Mitchell had at least 26 disposals in each game, and only collected less than 30 twice. )

However, his 482 handballs for the year are a new AFL record since records began in 1965. He pipped Tom Mitchell to the record in the last round (Mitchell finished with 480, the second highest handball total of all time). In this case, literally unprecedented.

 

[Hotdees]

Not a good enough season to make the all Australian squad apparently

 

[LeverPuller]

Not a good enough season to make the all Australian squad apparently

What the *

 

[LeverPuller]

TRELOAR MADE THE ******* SQUAD AND OLIVER MISSED, WHAT THE ACTUAL *

 

[TheCount]

TRELOAR MADE THE ******* SQUAD AND OLIVER MISSED, WHAT THE ACTUAL ****

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE SHITTING ME!! WHAT A ******* JOKE!

 

[Crusty Demon]

We are irrelevant. If he was in an Essendon jumper, he'd be in the 22. Disgraceful oversight

 

[Hotdees]

Tom Jonas made the squad. I know it's a different position but Tom Jonas? Really. Maybe I need to watch more football

 

[Topkent]

Clearly the campaign to say he handballs too much worked.

 

[Demonkings]

Yep the AFL made a mistake here. He carried our midfield this year. Probably didn't pick him because we missed finals in the end. I'm sure Clayton knows he is better than Seb Ross, despite what the afl might think.

 

[Proper Gander]

I'm almost more furious about this then missing the 8. That's disgraceful.

 

[Alfred E Neuman]

******* hell. You guys must've accidentally smashed a container full of mirrors...

 

[doodles98]

TRELOAR MADE THE ******* SQUAD AND OLIVER MISSED, WHAT THE ACTUAL ****

must admit I was a bit surprised by this. Howe on the other hand was a no-brainer. He's an absolute star!

 

[Scythe94]

They're just taking the piss now.

 

[BG32]

2nd most contested possessions
4th most tackles
4th most clearances
5th most disposals

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

This decision is unprecedented.

Who gives a * really, individual awards are meaningless. Could not care less after yesterday.

 

[Yakker]

This decision is unprecedented.

Who gives a **** really, individual awards are meaningless. Could not care less after yesterday.

Pretty sure I overheard Topkent telling you to "Piss off you salty flog" hahahahaaaa

 

[BG32]

Well hopefully (but I would be surprised) he polls very well in the brownlow

 

[Headless]

Amazing call.

 

[Cannon82]

2nd most contested possessions
4th most tackles
4th most clearances
5th most disposals

He should have been in the squad - that's a given. The stupid thing about it is the listed players have the stats that supposedly support their selection alongside their names, so how can a bloke with the stats above not be in AA midfield calculations?