Parish the second highest rated player in his age group (equal with Tim English) according to champion data, Oliver is the only player rated higher. I think you just have high expectations.
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Footywire.
What about Tom Mitchell? If you had to pick between Neale and our Hibberd, whoād you pick? The midget or the big bodied āinside midā?
Iām certain Brisbaneās midfield is smaller than us and we beat them in clearances yet that didnāt translate to a win.
Weird. I see Gresham ranked top 10 for centre clearances, average and total on footywire, but Jones and McGrath arenāt in either. That said, the AFL and footywire donāt agree on the actual clearance numbers anyway, and it only takes a fraction of a clearance per game to drop players from top 10 to top 20 or from top 20 to top 50, so shrug.
Iād be really interested to know if there is an āeffective clearancesā stat. Itās one thing to bang it on to your boot and another to get it to someone in the clear.
Itās only a clearance if itās retained.
So the term youāre looking for is āclearanceā.
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Thanks for that
This canāt be right. McGrath is leading our clearance stats but Iāve been told on here that all of his kicks are blind hacks to the opposition.
Dont believe everything you read on here.
Credited to the player who has the first effective disposal in a chain that clears the stoppage area, or an ineffective kick or clanger kick that clears the stoppage area.
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EFFECTIVE KICK A kick of more than 40 metres to a 50/50 contest or better for the team or a kick of less than 40 metres that results in the intended target retaining possession.
Kicking it long to a 50/50 contest is an effective disposal.
I have deleted my previous post about clearances being effective by definition, I was using the same page as you linked but it cut off the second half of that definition and I had to scroll across to see the rest, my mistake.
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You should also delete your effective kick one on that basis.
Its a blitz myth that one.
The effective kick one is still true so Ill leave it even though the context is different.
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Not according to the link KM posted above.
Late second rounder realistically. Hasnāt done a heck of a lot over the past 5 years. Good average output.
Yeah agreed, which would be a decent gamble in this draft. Best you could hope for would be one of Geelongās 3x first round picks, assuming they want a ready made player for their ongoing premiership pursuit with Selwood, Danger, Hawkins
He just turned 23 FFSā¦his best will be in 2 or 3 years and you want to go to the draft to get what? High risk strategy IMO
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If we can get one of Geelongās 1st round picks for Darcy, then I would take and run. Itād be a win for all parties at this stage.
probably one of his worst games for the club