Preview Round 10 Preview/Changes vs Sydney (#IndigenousRound) [Wells/Wright in for Ray/Mullett]

[Gasometer]

Champion Data's pressure factor is not easily accessed unless you want to pay big bucks. However you can Google the definitions and sides with 183 pressure factor and above win around 85% of games. It includes all sorts of acts that disrupt opposition ball movement, not just tackling eg force a player to kick without steadying.

It's fair to say that Essendon in their last quarter against us were able to steady for every single disposal but not Carlton last week when Dumont headed our pressure acts with 25 and Nahas was 4th with 18. On the other hand Ray had 10 and Mullet just 6.

A lot of supporters are just not interested in pressure acts or the team's pressure factor and deride them. They judge players purely on how many times they get it and what they do with it, which is important no doubt but if you don't apply pressure at AFL level, you will get slaughtered no matter what. The same supporters are then furious when the opposition move the ball with ease up the ground and then usually blame the back line when a goal is kicked. So those supporters do actually care about pressure, but they rarely factor it in to their selection opinions.

As much as I don't really like the Herald Sun, they do include individual pressure acts in their stats. I've watched them closely each week and our players who score highly don't get dropped the following week. Disrupting an opposition possession is as important as having a clean one yourself. Our ability to bring that each week - and our team is apparently ranked elite in this area after 9 rounds, is what is unsettling the opposition and what the coaching staff are focusing on every week.

Wells was topping pressure acts with about 24 a week until he rested. It's not fashionable, alot of fans don't give a rat's about it, but it's the first thing I look at now. Being at the ground you get a good sense of who is applying it but definitely not on TV. Champion Data have 2 guys just doing pressure stats for each game - you cannot just ball watch to pick it up.

So anyway, not surprised Nahas held his spot.

Our supporters say 'kick the ball forrrrrrwardddddddsssss not bacccccckwards Northhhhhhhh......."

Thats where it starts and ends.

 

[db swannie]

2013 board is thataway. --------->

Make sure you don't end up there tomorrow night!

 

[Unity-28]

Make sure you don't end up there tomorrow night!

Hey *******, this is a preview thread, not a banter thread......

 

[TheKanga]

Any truth in the rumors of Goldy or Brown being a late out for Daw?

 

[kaboom kid]

Is anyone else pining for Faz Raz already?..With his LegoMan haircut and his workmanlike brand of run and carry he'd found a special place in my heart...
Sam Wright and Daniel Wells are great 'ins' but I will watch this game haunted by a sense of melancholy....So long Faz Raz.... good luck and god speed in the VFL....

 

[db swannie]

Hey *******, this is a preview thread, not a banter thread......

Where's the banter thread?! When does a preview thread turn into a banter thread? Shirley you've done the previewing thing to death after 25 pages

 

[kelman]

I reckon they will continue the Mitchell hard tag and I think it will be on Ziebs. Will be interesting to see how he handles it.

Good thing is he can drag him forward. Big game from Swallow and Cunners needed.

 

[arden station]

Is anyone else pining for Faz Raz already?..With his LegoMan haircut and his workmanlike brand of run and carry he'd found a special place in my heart...
Sam Wright and Daniel Wells are great 'ins' but I will watch this game haunted by a sense of melancholy....So long Faz Raz.... good luck and god speed in the VFL....

There is definitely something unique about his kicking style - he runs, then looks like he's about to sit down in the final stride before he kicks it. Maybe it's his signature power move a la Tiger Woods.

 

[Harris 10]

He will need to be good in the air to match it with Heeney.

He is reasonably strong overhead but he doesn't even average one contested mark a game in 2016.

It would be a matchup I'd like to see.

 

[db swannie]

I reckon they will continue the Mitchell hard tag and I think it will be on Ziebs. Will be interesting to see how he handles it.

Good thing is he can drag him forward. Big game from Swallow and Cunners needed.

The word on our board is the same, ziebull to cop the tag. Our Mitchell shut down hawk Mitchell very well last week, but he may not be the right person to tag Ziebull. Cunningham may get the job, or else they'll let Kennedy go man on man, which would be pretty interesting.

 

[db swannie]

He is reasonably strong overhead but he doesn't even average one contested mark a game in 2016.

It would be a matchup I'd like to see.

Not sure where those numbers have come from, but meh. Kid is a freak. You'll see tomorrow night. Don't really care who is on him, Hawks had about 3 different guys on him last week.

 

[ArjenTheGreat]

Not sure where those numbers have come from, but meh. Kid is a freak. You'll see tomorrow night. Don't really care who is on him, Hawks had about 3 different guys on him last week.

You do realise we aren't a 3/4 strength Hawthorn, yeah?

 

[kaboom kid]

100% agree with you on the value of this and yeah, it's not easy to notice on TV. It's the art of closing down space quickly when needed, holding off and creating turnovers when they have nothing on, setting up to stifle and counterattacking. No surprise on Wells either.

Yeah, Wells is a defensive weapon alright.... Those chase down tackles are game changers.... He knows how to stay out of their peripheral vision... They never see him coming...

 

[Harris 10]

Not sure where those numbers have come from, but meh. Kid is a freak. You'll see tomorrow night. Don't really care who is on him, Hawks had about 3 different guys on him last week.

Champion data.

 

[hazza21]

Majak flying up, I've read it could be goldy or brown out on another thread. Surely it's Petrie with all the neck specialists reports this week?

 

[LT Smash]

Majak flying up, I've read it could be goldy or brown out on another thread. Surely it's Petrie with all the neck specialists reports this week?

No VFL game, may as well take 3 emergencies.

 

[Jasemon]

I reckon they will continue the Mitchell hard tag and I think it will be on Ziebs. Will be interesting to see how he handles it.

Good thing is he can drag him forward. Big game from Swallow and Cunners needed.

Sadly I reckon for old man Boomer if they continue with the hard tag it will go to him for the 1,484th time. Every team still sees a Boomer touch as potentially game over. Ziebell would be hard to tag, considering he's a such a bull. To be honest I can't recall him being tagged before.

 

[db swannie]

You do realise we aren't a 3/4 strength Hawthorn, yeah?

Yes, we beat them last week.

 

[Mjs94]

Don't think you can tag Ziebell purely because he wins his own ball rather than relying on others, so hopefully Sydney try to.

 

[McRobie]

Sadly I reckon for old man Boomer if they continue with the hard tag it will go to him for the 1,484th time. Every team still sees a Boomer touch as potentially game over. Ziebell would be hard to tag, considering he's a such a bull. To be honest I can't recall him being tagged before.

Harvey way to quick fo mitchell. Mitchell will go and find the ball rather than tag... that's my guess.

 

[LuvtheKangas]

I hope Cunningham tags Cunnington and Baz is commentating.

 

[QueenslandRoo]

Champion Data's pressure factor is not easily accessed unless you want to pay big bucks. However you can Google the definitions and sides with 183 pressure factor and above win around 85% of games. It includes all sorts of acts that disrupt opposition ball movement, not just tackling eg force a player to kick without steadying.

It's fair to say that Essendon in their last quarter against us were able to steady for every single disposal but not Carlton last week when Dumont headed our pressure acts with 25 and Nahas was 4th with 18. On the other hand Ray had 10 and Mullet just 6.

A lot of supporters are just not interested in pressure acts or the team's pressure factor and deride them. They judge players purely on how many times they get it and what they do with it, which is important no doubt but if you don't apply pressure at AFL level, you will get slaughtered no matter what. The same supporters are then furious when the opposition move the ball with ease up the ground and then usually blame the back line when a goal is kicked. So those supporters do actually care about pressure, but they rarely factor it in to their selection opinions.

As much as I don't really like the Herald Sun, they do include individual pressure acts in their stats. I've watched them closely each week and our players who score highly don't get dropped the following week. Disrupting an opposition possession is as important as having a clean one yourself. Our ability to bring that each week - and our team is apparently ranked elite in this area after 9 rounds, is what is unsettling the opposition and what the coaching staff are focusing on every week.

Wells was topping pressure acts with about 24 a week until he rested. It's not fashionable, alot of fans don't give a rat's about it, but it's the first thing I look at now. Being at the ground you get a good sense of who is applying it but definitely not on TV. Champion Data have 2 guys just doing pressure stats for each game - you cannot just ball watch to pick it up.

So anyway, not surprised Nahas held his spot.

Thanks for this post. Made a lot of sense. Very enlightening. Appreciated it.

 

[hilly]

I hope Cunningham tags Cunnington and Baz is commentating.

Let's go to Chris Scott in the Sydney box and John The Horse Ironmonger in the North box.

 

[QueenslandRoo]

Our supporters say 'kick the ball forrrrrrwardddddddsssss not bacccccckwards Northhhhhhhh......."

Thats where it starts and ends.

Yeah!!!!

I always yell that out, especially when they start looking back and ....

Hang on.

Wait.

Are you saying not to say that?????

 

[Reginald0]

probly the week to put money on us for the Flag
We will do them, up there and set up a Top 2 result
We are much more even, they will freak out when we start smashing them around,
and their bottom 6 will panic and their old codgers are past it whereas ours are mostly playing better