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Be rude not dip into that thanks Calder
Bit harsh to judge Schultz given the headclash limiting his impact to 85 minutes against Shaun's 105 minutes, but even with limited time the impact for Lachie should be stark given the big ticket trade value attached.
Let's have a look.
Moving the footy:
Start with where Mannagh has the advantage of being deployed further afield, though as the premium trade in Schultzy should at least match it with the state leaguer.
Shaun 14d @ 71% DE% isn't bad for a small forward. 20% defensive half, 80% forwards half and 232m gained. Rocks the box but for marquee trade you would expect youn Lachie to walk this one in. Let's check the data and ... umm.... oh dear... I see it says 10d @ 70% DE%. 141m gained also reflecting his tendency to handpass rather than bite off the attacking kick suggesting is 71% DE% is worse than it looks.
I guess factoring for the difference in game time (which I'm told is a totally valid linear extrapolation, can you confirm Warhorse ?) You get to 11 as the bar for young Lachie which he failed to meet. If we torture the data a bit we can say that at best Lachie was not worse than Shaun. But I am more interested in hyperbole so I will state that Mannagh was better as observed fact.
There are other elements to footy though so let's check some other angles.
Scoring:
Well Schultz is usually deployed closer to goal so I expect him to be the finisher and track up a few goals and assists. Shaun got 1 goal 1, 1 goal assist, 6 score involvements. Lachie's bread and butter so expect him to dominate here and let's see... erm... 0 goals 1 behind, zero assists, 5 involvements. Ok that's not great but given the sub out we can probably be generous and say maybe he kicks a goal in the last 20 minutes, but given we had clear ascendancy by then probably not. So judgement is at best neutral if you make the excuses, but if we're honest it's a loss for Lachie here.
Not the result the Collingwood list managers expected there I'll wager.
Defensive work:
12 pressure acts, 4 tackles, 2 of which were inside 50 for young Lachie. You can't say he didn't run both ways but we aren't talking elite impacts here. That's fine, Shaun is fresh out the VFL, he won't be used to the pace of AFL and is unlikely to be able to keep up with seasoned AFL forwards and mids. Expect Schultz to hold ground here. Right?
... right ?!?
Well no. The bloke from the half pace ressies came up and applied 25 pressure acts and was obviously better defensively.
Win to Mannagh here outright no matter how you spin it.
Numbers can lie though. What does the vision tell you?
The vision tells me they are the same age, the same height, the same position, and overall very similar players. Shaun is however better defensively and gets much better return from his kicking which has much more penetration.
