This is quite the understatement I’d say!!
If over night andy and tsatas magically learned to kick blitz traffic would drop by about half
You’d hope, you’d just hope that a #1 draft pick and #5 draft pick would be able to kick a football when playing the sport, football.
Think about this sentance. The single best under 18’s footballer in his year, the actual best, and the 5th best under 18s footballer in his year, can’t kick a football.
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Fair point.
Yeah, nah. Nobody looked at Andy McGrath tearing up U18 footy and thought he can’t kick a football. Or even in his first year of AFL level.
It’s a mental aspect/pressure for him since then which has crippled his kicking (which is still more of a decision making/panic issue than a pure mechanical issue).
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Agree. He’s just never had any “tricks” to give himself time to compose himself and has relied on his pace only. It’s effective but “pressure kills” - the opposite of Pendlebury who can make the game slow down. It just speeds up with Andy
Not the players fault just poor recruiting by so called experts.
Don the Stat crunched some numbers on possessions that directly result in goals on their latest episode:
“So what we’ve looked at is where a turnover has taken place and the opposition then score a goal from the next possession chain, regardless of how many possessions, whether that’s intercept a mark and kick a goal with the next possession, or they start in the back line and work it to the other end of the ground.
This is where a turnover has taken place and the opposition then get the ball and score a goal directly following that turnover. So, there’s four players who are ranked number one in the competition in this stat. And the first one probably won’t surprise people, but it’s…
Well, they’re all equal, but Bailey Smith, Connor Rozie, Dane Zorko, and Ruben Gibney are number one in the competition. And it’s 15 goals from their turnovers have occurred”
From Don The Stat: Don The Stat 2025 Round 18 Preview vs Richmond, 10 Jul 2025
Ash, McCrae and Baker next on 14.
Merrett was number one from our team with 13.
Sicily, Harmes, Noble, Laird, Wanganeen Milera are next.
McGrath has 10 - same as Josh Daicos, Caleb Daniel, Liam Duggan, Ed Langdon.l, Whitfield and Bramble and a bunch of others.
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Aish has had 23 possessions this year, and 14 of them have led directly to opposition goals?
Might be Ash? Grabbed it from the podcast transcript
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Oh yup, Ash makes sense.
Overlay all of those names with those individual score involvements too.
I bet you McGrath would be DFL.
Maybe. I guess a bunch would be getting a more of the ball too. Then again a high % of McGrath’s stats are in the back half. Anyway - it’s at the end of the latest episode and worth a listen.
Second last. He has 45, Ginbey has 17.
He’s actually way way way smarter than anyone is giving him credit for….
I’ve noticed tonight, on three occasions he pulls up about half a metre short of his opponent who then marks it. That then doesn’t go down as a contested mark as McGrath didn’t make any contact.
Brilliant stat paddling.
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Opposition know to just keep off him, give him plenty of time to work out his options and this moron will either handball 5m to a player next to him or kick it aimlessly forward.
If he’s such a great leader off the field, then make him a coach and ■■■■■■■ leave him there.
The backline is bad enough with Prior & Lav without this basket case with the ball.
His pissweak tackling & general panicking is the antithesis of a leader.
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trotts got enough lotion for that sequence by mcgrath?
Nah I’ve given up with the fanbois in here. From Saturday to Tuesday everyone knows he’s a spud. But by Thursday and Friday he’s suddenly a superstar. lol.
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Go away
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update thread title to until 2030 and beyond
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