The Mongrel Punt is greedy as hell

[PhatBoy]

I don't know what you're reading or watching, but analysis went beyond basic stats about a decade ago.
The analysts now talk about stats such as post clearance ground ball, forward 50 turnovers, D50 transition for scores, etc because they are relevant in determining if a team has its game in good order.
There's obviously no right or wrong way to enjoy your footy analysis, but I'd say that plenty of people appreciate the opportunity to see the game through the same lens as the coaches do.

Every team is good at D50 transition to scores. They all practice it. You ARE right in that when a team has a good day out and scores a heap from that method in particular it shows that they have that part of their game working well, I guess, but it means jack shit if their kicking isn’t up to scratch or their running isn’t based around effort.

A basic hypothetical example would be if there are two teams playing one another and they are both ‘relying on defensive transition’ to score all their points. Ok so coaches will be focusing on that and that’s fine that’s what they’re paid to do.

I don’t want to read about that - fair enough if others do but you can get that from a stat sheet. Go read a stat sheet.

The game unfolds and one team wins by 8 goals because they continually score these beautiful goals where they’re running the ball from their defensive end with a couple of handballs, two precise kicks, and find a forward who is in space.

Write about it!! Write about how good the kicking is, the sensational disposal, the the relentless running and speed and the way that the two targets up forward work in tandem to mess up the defensive plans of the opposing coach.

Meanwhile the other team who pride themselves on their own ‘defensive transition’ keep missing their own players, overcommitting defenders when they are trying to shut down their opponents, can’t hit a handball target and aren’t communicating in attack or defence so regardless of their perceived strength in ‘defensive transition’ they’re losing the match, and on top of that, the effort has been sucked out of their game because the opposition running has demoralised them.


That to me with some extrapolation on the players who executed it with a couple of numbers as to who did what, would paint a better picture than ‘Team A’s defensive transition led to 8.4 while team be could only manage 2 goals coming out of their own 50’ followed by a bunch of stats.

I get that everyone likes different things and just like a Cricinfo page there is always room for deep dives etc but the over saturation of different categorical analysis to me has sucked the life out of so much footy reporting it’s made it hard to digest.

 

[The Mongrel Punt]

Well, this is interesting. I should provide clarity.

We provide free articles every week. The only articles behind a paywall are my own because I own the place. I don't put anyone else's work behind the wall. I write four game reviews per week, myself. As such, there are four behind the paywall. That leaves five free every week. I also write 4-5 articles during the week. Three of them are for members, as I need to provide value for those who support my work. It makes sense, when you think about it.

At least three people now working in mainstream media started writing for me about 12 months after I started the site. They did it because they wanted experience and help with their work. Happy to provide both, but I have no designs on going any further into the Boys Club of the media.

All my content was free, and I had readers telling me to charge for it, because they wanted to support the work. It was very nice of them to suggest it - I took the advice, and here we are. We don't accept advertising, or gambling money, despite offers on a weekly basis, so whoever was suggesting it is clickbait doesn't seem to understand that concept. We don't get paid per click. We don't report gossip. And we don't belabour the off-field stuff - I much prefer to concentrate on the most important aspect of footy; the game, itself.

In terms of the "greedy" memberships, we made the decision to use the subscription model for the site. For those speculating, the free version of the membership exists because when people jump on then jump off as members, which tends to happen in the offseason a bit, the membership reverts to free so as not to delete the whole account/details of the user, and they don't then have to rejoin. It's not the ideal scenario, but it works.

The way I look at it, everyone has a choice.

A) You see something you fancy, join, and are happy with the product and stay.
B) You see something you fancy, join, and are not happy with the product, so you cancel the membership.
C) You don't see something you fancy, don't join, and go on with your life
D) You do see something you're interested in, don't join, and have a sook about it.

You seem to have chosen option D. Maccas has free newspapers for you to read.

The cost of a basic membership is about 20c per day. I might be crazy, but I value my time enough to think that is a fair price. If that makes me greedy so be it.

To those who had kind words and common sense opinions to share, thank you. I am just a bloke who is passionate about footy. Not too dissimilar to most of you, I'm guessing. Hopefully, that is reflected in the work. I just wanted to offer something a little different than the mainstream did, so I tried it, and I am really pleased to have so much support from the footy public, as well as the families of players, and some in the industry.

Any issues, please message me - I feel a bit embarrassed that this was linked to me from the main forum. We're niche - haha.

All the best
HB

 

[PetterdHoisted]

Well, this is interesting. I should provide clarity.

We provide free articles every week. The only articles behind a paywall are my own because I own the place. I don't put anyone else's work behind the wall. I write four game reviews per week, myself. As such, there are four behind the paywall. That leaves five free every week. I also write 4-5 articles during the week. Three of them are for members, as I need to provide value for those who support my work. It makes sense, when you think about it.

At least three people now working in mainstream media started writing for me about 12 months after I started the site. They did it because they wanted experience and help with their work. Happy to provide both, but I have no designs on going any further into the Boys Club of the media.

All my content was free, and I had readers telling me to charge for it, because they wanted to support the work. It was very nice of them to suggest it - I took the advice, and here we are. We don't accept advertising, or gambling money, despite offers on a weekly basis, so whoever was suggesting it is clickbait doesn't seem to understand that concept. We don't get paid per click. We don't report gossip. And we don't belabour the off-field stuff - I much prefer to concentrate on the most important aspect of footy; the game, itself.

In terms of the "greedy" memberships, we made the decision to use the subscription model for the site. For those speculating, the free version of the membership exists because when people jump on then jump off as members, which tends to happen in the offseason a bit, the membership reverts to free so as not to delete the whole account/details of the user, and they don't then have to rejoin. It's not the ideal scenario, but it works.

The way I look at it, everyone has a choice.

A) You see something you fancy, join, and are happy with the product and stay.
B) You see something you fancy, join, and are not happy with the product, so you cancel the membership.
C) You don't see something you fancy, don't join, and go on with your life
D) You do see something you're interested in, don't join, and have a sook about it.

You seem to have chosen option D. Maccas has free newspapers for you to read.

The cost of a basic membership is about 20c per day. I might be crazy, but I value my time enough to think that is a fair price. If that makes me greedy so be it.

To those who had kind words and common sense opinions to share, thank you. I am just a bloke who is passionate about footy. Not too dissimilar to most of you, I'm guessing. Hopefully, that is reflected in the work. I just wanted to offer something a little different than the mainstream did, so I tried it, and I am really pleased to have so much support from the footy public, as well as the families of players, and some in the industry.

Any issues, please message me - I feel a bit embarrassed that this was linked to me from the main forum. We're niche - haha.

All the best
HB

well done for not taking the gambling $$

Gillon and co hate people like you

but vulnerable families love people like you