Preview Round 6: Essendon vs Collingwood, MCG, ANZAC Day, 3:20 PM

[Kakkle]

I thought the point of life is to die before you have to pay anyone back, now I realise it's live long enough to see Baguley dropped.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Just thought I'd point out that that's not the case.

Of the 4 ruckmen in the comp who are solo, high volume ruckman who have played 5 games this year (Gawn, Grundy, Mcevoy and Witts) the stats are as follows:

Witts - Hitouts: 44.4, To Advantage: 11.4, Rate: 25.7%
Gawn - Hitouts: 40.8, To Advantage: 14.2, Rate: 34.8%
McEvoy - Hitouts: 30.6, To Advantage: 7.4, Rate: 24.2%
Grundy - Hitouts: 38.0, To Advantage: 12.2, Rate: 32.1%

Didn't see the segment you are referring to, but I don't think the stats being represented are correct (or potentially they were intentionally misinterpreted by the panel). Clearly up there with Gawn on an island for hitout damage.

Didn't mean to intrude, just thought you might be interested.

Not even sure the hitout to advantage even means much anymore. Gawn dominated this stat against Saints and Dees were beaten in clearances and stoppages.

 

[JayJ20]

but were they 17th and 18th before we beat them or did beating them make them 17th and 18th?

Melbourne were actually the 18th side because we were the 17th. Norf may as well have been the 18th side.

 

[VelvetSledge]

I thought the point of life is to die before you have to pay anyone back, now I realise it's live long enough to see Baguley dropped.

I'm going to put this on my tombstone

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Just thought I'd point out that that's not the case.

Of the 4 ruckmen in the comp who are solo, high volume ruckman who have played 5 games this year (Gawn, Grundy, Mcevoy and Witts) the stats are as follows:

Witts - Hitouts: 44.4, To Advantage: 11.4, Rate: 25.7%
Gawn - Hitouts: 40.8, To Advantage: 14.2, Rate: 34.8%
McEvoy - Hitouts: 30.6, To Advantage: 7.4, Rate: 24.2%
Grundy - Hitouts: 38.0, To Advantage: 12.2, Rate: 32.1%

Didn't see the segment you are referring to, but I don't think the stats being represented are correct (or potentially they were intentionally misinterpreted by the panel). Clearly up there with Gawn on an island for hitout damage.

Didn't mean to intrude, just thought you might be interested.

You are welcome to post here brah

We are a bit more welcoming then your mob

 

[Lore]

Not even sure the hitout to advantage even means much anymore. Gawn dominated this stat against Saints and Dees were beaten in clearances and stoppages.

I think that's the point the media boffins were trying to make. He had 58 hitouts against the Bulldogs (which is a record apparently), but 17 were to advantage, Collingwood only won the clearances by 7 despite the ruck dominance, scoring shots were 23-19 (very even), and they won that game by 14 points. I'm guessing that's what sparked off the round of articles and commentary about him, coupled with the fact he's an RFA in 2020 (the fashion seems to be to trade or re-sign the year before they're an RFA if possible).

 

[Lore]

Just thought I'd point out that that's not the case.

Of the 4 ruckmen in the comp who are solo, high volume ruckman who have played 5 games this year (Gawn, Grundy, Mcevoy and Witts) the stats are as follows:

Witts - Hitouts: 44.4, To Advantage: 11.4, Rate: 25.7%
Gawn - Hitouts: 40.8, To Advantage: 14.2, Rate: 34.8%
McEvoy - Hitouts: 30.6, To Advantage: 7.4, Rate: 24.2%
Grundy - Hitouts: 38.0, To Advantage: 12.2, Rate: 32.1%

Didn't see the segment you are referring to, but I don't think the stats being represented are correct (or potentially they were intentionally misinterpreted by the panel). Clearly up there with Gawn on an island for hitout damage.

Didn't mean to intrude, just thought you might be interested.

As I said in my reply above, I think it was based on his game against the Bulldogs. It seems to be quite difficult to get HTA stats for individual games, the dogs game stats above are from an article written about the same topic.

 

[BuffDog]

Apparently Elliott out for the Pies

 

[cAsEy_18]

Official:
Parish & Ham out for Zaka and Dev

For Collingwood:
In - Greenwood, Hoskin-Elliot
Out - Aish, Elliot

 

[Albertross]

In: Zaka, Smith
Out: Ham, Parish

Predictable changes.

 

[tha Freak]

Parish, Hams out , Zakka, Smith in

Elliott out

Official:
Parish & Ham out for Zaka and Dev

For Collingwood:
In - Greenwood, Hoskin-Elliot
Out - Aish, Elliot

Handy having Elliot out for pies, can be a hard match up. Like this.

 

[MightyDon]

Parish plays 1,000,000 x over Bags

 

[ghostdog]

I thought the point of life is to die before you have to pay anyone back, now I realise it's live long enough to see Baguley drop Maynard.

FTFY

 

[JayJ20]

Why do people know our changes at least 2 days before announcement this year?
Inb4weknowbecauseBaguley.

 

[JayJ20]

Also, Elliott out is huge.

 

[Donakebab]

Why do people know our changes at least 2 days before announcement this year?

Wut? AFL app just announced the changes.

 

[Donakebab]

Also Baggers survives the cut... ugh.

 

[table tennis]

When Darcy Parish speaks to his manager, and lists blokes like Guelfi and Baguley that get a game before him, I can understand him shopping himself around.

Disgusting selection choices again

 

[JayJ20]

Wut? AFL app just announced the changes.

This was posted on Monday:

Some posters on Blitz saying Ham and Parish are the ones omitted for Smith and Zaka.

Happens pretty much every week.

 

[Dons4days]

Parish plays 3 out of 4 games very well - gets dropped.

Baguley is yet to play a good game - gifted yet another.

It’ll be interesting to see what we net when Parish requests a trade at years end.

 

[Donakebab]

This was posted on Monday:




Happens pretty much every week.

They have close ties to the club.

 

[Lore]

They have close ties to the club.

That and the club is utterly predictable.

 

[LB#16]

So, Bucks put Hoskin-Elliott in again so that Walla has someone to run down. What a nice guy.

 

[Dons4days]

Parish plays 1,000,000 x over Bags

Not according to Woosha. Bags only misses when injured. Even then he would possibly chose to go in with one less player in bags memory rather than give a young guy a game.

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

What a week. First EFC walking around with its nose in the air by selecting Joey. Then again to the catholic church by playing Ham on good Friday. Then once again with this Shiel property development thingo and finally EFC gives everyone at Essendon Bigfooty a great big up yours by not dropping Bags.