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Are we perhaps good at edging?
Do it against good teams and I'll believe.
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Credit where credit is due, our backline sucked last year and we never got into that window. This year we have tightened up a lot without losing our scoring power (freeo exc).
Collingwood will take us on more backing their system in, which will allow us to have more scoring opportunities which could be their downfall.
Melbourne was an anomaly and with more consistent umpiring and better set shots we would have won that game easily.
Collingwood will take us on more backing their system in, which will allow us to have more scoring opportunities which could be their downfall.
Melbourne was an anomaly and with more consistent umpiring and better set shots we would have won that game easily.
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I think the jury is still out.
Good kicking or otherwise, Melbourne put 96 points on us. Richmond put 92 points on us. Even West Coast with 70 points will probably end up above average for them on the road this year.
The sample is skewed by playing Freo who just lock games down and a pitiful Essendon who just didn't compete in the middle so our defence was never tested.
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We're good.
But a fair way off of great.
But a fair way off of great.
The reality is we've been historically a 20-50 point worse team in big games and knockout finals for 9 years and have done nothing to rectify that in the coaching box where it matters. Its a lot to overcome.
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Premiership standard is 100> points for, <87 points against.
Melbourne put +30 points over their expected score. 5 goals that they shouldn't have kicked on probabilities, they did. And yet you are talking about the Fremantle and Essendon games skewing the data?
Richmond, West Coast and Fremantle we went at close to our expected score.
Port expected score average is 100.8 - the best in the competition.
Opposition expected score average is 63.8 - the best in the competition.
We are comparable with Brisbane in terms of inside 50s generated to inside 50s conceded. The only thing we don't do that Brisbane does is generate +6 more stoppage clearances per game, which is why Champion Data rates Brisbane as being the only side which is currently running at premiership standard for offensive and defensive transition.
If only we ever actually scored what we are expected to score when it matters.
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FTFY
But if you think about it from a sensibility test…
Freo, Melb and Saints don’t score enough
Carlton, GC, Bulldogs are considered one way runners that get hit on the turnover/rebound
I expect that Port and Geelong will move towards the centre, with GWS and Sydney taking our places.
The question must be asked
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But what if we are, but today collingwood is just a bit gooder for longer?
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And we now know the emphatic answer to this question for the ages - not in a million years.
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