With Ian a late out with the Windy Hill Flu, former Essendon and Western Bulldog’s football analyst Andrew Walsh joins his brother Jono to break down the Adelaide win and to do a deep dive into the challenge of facing Geelong on their home deck.
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Out a day early due to scheduling issues this week, we look at the Geelong Horror show, counter some shallow media analysis and look into how we can defeat one of our other Bogey sides in the Western Bulldogs this week.
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we seem to have a lot of bogey sides 
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We got one over Richmond this year, hopefully we can do the same to the Dogs
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Surprised you guys don’t have a gig in club land with this level of analysis.
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Each time I listen to this Pod, I feel like a more superior armchair expert. Great work!!
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I think we’re a very good show on Friday. This is a very different looking dogs side, as you touched on.
Strongly disagree on McGrath going to Daniel though. I think Weightman is their most important player in the front half. He’s a real barometer for them and if he starts making things happen (one way or the other) he gets their whole side up. Kelly has 12cm on him. I guarantee you Weightman will draw high free kicks out of him. Weightman will play up the size differential and play for frees like mad. He won’t be able do that with mcgrath who is a comparable size and can go with him athletically in every type of contest.
Left field suggestion for Daniel is Snelling. Snelling has a great tank, has been playing big wing minutes, is not a stranger to the contest and was actually pushed down back late last week.
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Snelling on Daniel is a good shout. The only thing there is I think they should replace Snelling with Davey to get him in the side, which would limit the options.
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Thanks, more great insights. And another demonstration of the rubbish Hoyne talks - not just about us, a couple of weeks ago he reckoned Lauchie Neale was the 300th and something ranked player
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I’m kind of glad he’s doing what he’s doing. Gives us something to talk about 
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The Don The Stat preview for Round 20 against the Swans is out now. Jono is once again joined by his brother Andrew to look at how we can go about defeating last year’s runners up
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BRILLIANT!
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I found this interesting, wonder what your thoughts are on this as a stat. I know in the NBA it’s highly valued.
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“Essendon’s Jayden Laverde (the Bombers are +11.76 points per 100 minutes with him on the field, and -24.82 with him off, for a differential of +36.58” - second best in the league
that will not make some here happy.
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Keep Lav,
Drop Kelly
Bring Balders
Those people rarely seem happy
It’s so interesting for me to see this stat applied to AFL, I’ve been waiting to see it for a while.
From the GOOD list, there’s a couple of interesting groups.
Full backs some of whom aren’t properly appreciated by their fan bases (obv Sicily and Barrass are well appreciated but the other three aren’t)
Tom Barrass
Jayden Laverde
Brodie Kemp
James Sicily
Trent McKenzie
Small forwards who don’t necessarily kick a lot of goals
Tyler Brockman
Michael Frederick
Cody Weightman
Jed McEntee
From the BAD list
veterans trying to work their way back into form (you would say Cripps, Hepp, Whitfield have been hitting some nice form lately)
Patrick Cripps
Jesse Hogan
Levi Casboult
Jack Gunston
Dyson Heppell
Travis Boak
Jake Stringer
Lachie Whitfield
young guys who are new to a role or a team trying to find their way (Ashcroft probably the most interesting one here since he has had a number of very good games)
Jesse Motlop
Tanner Bruhn
Nick Murray
Liam Henry
Oliver Hollands
Will Ashcroft
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I listened to the podcast it was mentioned in. As you say, in NBA it’s a pretty valuable stat. I reckon on a larger AFL field, with more players out there, it has a lesser impact than otherwise. It’d be something I’d want to see tracked over multiple seasons to see if it had value - looking at it once off is probably not very effective at this stage.
it would be interesting to see if the numbers correlate at all with the CD rating system. my guess is it doesn’t.
Yeah agree. 1/18 vs 1/5 is not ideal and backtracking the stats over the last 15 years would be worthwhile to see the value of it.
I also thought about what if you aggregate it for a group of players, so when we had Draper, Setterfied, Merrett and Parish in the middle vs another combo. Or say for back 6 or forward 6.
I think there could be some real value there.