Review – Footscray 2021 round 21

[Tezzalenco]

I have serious concerns about Draper. When we win a flag the way he celebrates he may need a minder to keep an eye on him. Will give Dusty and Dane Swan a run for their money.

[Shahid_Afridi]

Cruel luck for that to happen so late. Loved how our boys got around him.

[ivan]

@Humbert_Humbert

@ivan

Amazing performance but boy they let us off the hook a few times. I don’t think I can remember another game where our opponents had missed so many shots from inside 20m

From champion data

Expected Score / Actual Score
WB: 117 / 84 (-33)
ES: 83 / 97 (+14)

Expected Margin / Actual Margin: +34 / -13

I’ve been working for a data science company since 2017 and, in AFL-land, we provide tools for clubs to analyse match data, fitness (Vald), GPS data and match day feeds. Champion put together some really useful metrics from the raw data, but they also cobble together some stupid metrics and there’s nothing dumber than that “expected vs actual” thing they do. I mean - “here’s your score if your goal kicking was on par” makes as much sense as “here’s your score if you hadn’t missed 14 tackles in Q3 or “here’s your score if Bontempelli got pinged for HTB when he should’ve been”.

All it really says is they missed a truck load of gettable chances and we nailed some pretty tough ones. Lady luck was with us today which was nice for a change

[Bomb_Doe]

It’s a modern day retelling of A Christmas Carol.

Something something, Peter Jackson is Ebenezer Scrooge and visited by Kevin Sheedy,
he is shown Ghosts of Coaches Past, Coaches Present and Coaches Future.

you get the idea

[Houli_Dooli]

i wonder what the expected margin would be if bonttempelli was paid holding the ball frees against.

definitely well loved by the umpire fraternity with the protection he got today.

[efc1robbo]

[Wanderlust]

7AFL

[BillyBewick]

Or even worse, Paul Hills.

[stander2]

Seemed like there were more of us than them consoling Bruce.

[Finding_Nino]

Nice

[centipede2]

Luke Beveridge post game conference:

"It's hard to process"

[Finding_Nino]

First time he’s lost to us must feel weird

Lols suck a fat one bevo

[handypoint]

@stander2

Seemed like there were more of us than them consoling Bruce.

Wouldn’t it be glorious if he requested a trade.

[Finding_Nino]

Love Drapes in the team songs what a character

Rd 21 | Team song

[handypoint]

Herbatron is gonna be great this week.

He loves a bit of 2MP

[HarryJay]

@Tezzalenco

I love it in the centre bounce when the ball gets fed down Sheils throat and he takes off it looks like he is moving on a conveyor belt. Smooth as. Great to have him back.

Shiel streaming out of the middle looks like a million dollars.
Then he kicks it, and he looks like about $1.50.
That tumble punt in the 3rd when he had the whole open forward line to kick into was just typical of him, unfortunately

[sweatyman]

It was a good win Harry against the top side. Some things will be off but so many were on. Enjoy.

[HarryJay]

Hey, I enjoyed, believe me.
But I think when we lose, we criticise everyone and everything. And when we win, every player suddenly becomes a star, the list is great, Rutten is a great coach, the gameplan is working, Dodo is a guru.
I prefer to try not to let the result change the way i look at things.

[ivan]

Can’t remember an Essendon side with more blue collar types for a long time - Snelling, guelfi, Clarke, Durham

[Wanderlust]

Scooter