Pear Shaped Figures

[floppinab]

142 handballs to 67, more than double, thats damning. Reasonable piece from Hinds.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/AFL/Figures-go-pearshaped-for-Swans/2005/04/24/1114281452805.html

[Mike_B]

His assessment was pretty much spot-on IMHO.

[Bron]

Read this article from today's Australian: Lions Spreadeagled .

Now read again transposing Brisbane for Sydney. Sound familiar? Down on confidence.

Now think back to when we're in form. Transpose WCE for Sydney. Sound familiar? No one star, everyone played well.

[Mike_B]

Could be to an extent, although I think you'll find WCE have players with far better skills than ours - particularly at the 2nd/3rd-tir level.

[Schneiderman]

Originally posted by Mike_B
Could be to an extent, although I think you'll find WCE have players with far better skills than ours - particularly at the 2nd/3rd-tir level.

Disagree. Players like Hunter, Stenglein, Hansen, Seaby... they all play well in a team high on confidence, but then have a look at their start tothe season last year. Its a very different picture if Gardiner, Cousins and Judd all dont play at once... similar to our weekend really.

[DST]

Outside of a couple of teams every year, nothing seperates the remaining 14 teams but confidence, mental application and injuries to key players.

The AFL has been designed to be even and on any given day very little seperates most teams

DST

[Wazza]

Originally posted by Schneiderman
Disagree. Players like Hunter, Stenglein, Hansen, Seaby... they all play well in a team high on confidence, but then have a look at their start tothe season last year. Its a very different picture if Gardiner, Cousins and Judd all dont play at once... similar to our weekend really.

Im not sure why you included Stenglein or Hunter in this group they would both be walk up starts in the Swans and probably the same for 14 of the 16 AFL clubs.

Cheers

Waz