Midfield Goals?

[King Elvis]

Anyone have a stat on how many goals we've kicked from the midfield this year?

As much as our forwards have been average, I noticed last week that our midfielders seemed to prefer to pull up about 70m and kick into the forward 50, rather than go for home.

With Goody, Thommo, Mattner (sort of), Macca (sort of), Knights, Radar, Edwards and Van Berlo in our midfield, we should have a decent tally of midfield goal kickers - especially when our forward line is struggling.

As I said, does anyone have a stat on this, and what are your opinions?

 

[fightingdreamer88]

Huge issue, needs to be sorted very soon.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Thommo 4
Knights 1
Edwards 1
Reilly 2
VB 3
Goodwin 0
(Mattner) 0
Doughty 0
Shirley 0
Vince 1
Porplyzia 2

Poor.

 

[fightingdreamer88]

Thommo 4
Knights 1
Edwards 1
Reilly 2
VB 3
Goodwin 0
(Mattner) 0
Doughty 0
Shirley 0
Vince 1
Porplyzia 2

Poor.

From that list the ones in bold are suspect I reckon. I'd say Porplyzia got his two while playing up forward, not as a midfielder. Same goes for Vince iirc. Thompson spends some time up forward as well, how many of his goals would be from said cameos?

For argument's sake, we'll take those goals away from Porps and Vince and put them in the forward line category (because I'm 99% sure they got those playing as forwards). Now I remember Thompson kicked a goal from a crumb against Freo...say we take two goals from his total and put them in the forward line category. That means we have produced nine goals TOTAL from midfield movements this season. If by midfield goals you're talking about goals from midfielders on the run, you can take away one of Reilly's goals (scored against Port Adelaide from a set shot), and another of Thommo's (scored against the bombers from a set shot). That's seven goals produced from midfielders on the run from six games. Now look, we could throw another goal back to Thommo if in fact my estimation of two out of the four goals being from set shots is wrong, but the bottom line is we've struggled to even get near ten goals from midfield play in six matches. Unless we've got a couple of forwards kicking six apiece each week it doesn't take a genius to figure that we're not getting enough from our onballers/wingers/attacking defenders.