I didn't watch it all, but it was footy from another era...and that's a good thing. High scoring, risk taking, tough. Had it all. If you wanted to advertise our great game, give someone a tape of this one.
2015 DE%'s
Fyfe - 69.6
Danger - 67.6
Pendles, Goddard only top-20 disposal winners over 76%.
Gibson, Houli, Birchall, Bob Murphy, Sam Wright, R.Shaw and Ibbotson the only top-100 disposal winners over 80% (all stats per afl.com.au).
Fyfe and Danger have poor DE, balanced by winning a heap of their own footy in the contest. Gray incredibly stiff last night. That was a 150 game every day of the week. And no, I don't have him!
Gray because;
- he's the #1 mid at his club (Parker behind Hanners, JPK at least)
- has a better scoring history
- is in his prime (scarily, I think Parker can improve)
- has the easiest SoS
Keays had 39 touches in the NEAFL on the weekend, fair chance he gets a call up with all the injuries at Brisbane. Might pay to hold him and not waste a trade out then having to trade him back in later.
I don't think Bevo sees him as a backman, instead going with guys like Roberts, Talia and Hamling last year and even playing Wood as that second key defender. I think they'd like him as a second ruck and swingman / mr fix-it.
Clay Cameron would've been touch and go. Think he hurt his shoulder during the game. That new fitness guy they poached hasn't been able to turn around the Suns' injury woes obviously.
If you look how Beveridge played his rookies at the Dogs last year, it seemed that;
- all of them got a run at some stage
- most seemed to play 3-4 games, then floated in and out between AFL and VFL
The knock on Dunkley is his disposal efficiency, especially his kicking (wonder where that came...