Davis Heading For The Tip

[stellation]

The two Geelong half back flankers - Harley had 17 possessions and Wojcinski had 17 possessions. Davis racked up a mighty nine for the match. He gave two free kicks away with none for which indicates he played from behind for most of the match. He also has the highest ratio of uncontested possessions to contested possesions of our forwards in in the club. Davis was simply taken apart from the half forward line. He should not have been selected fit or otherwise. We needed more height on the forward line and White should have been given the chance. No doubt he will be next week. I still haven't got back to watch the replay but Davis stats are just woeful. My lasting impression of his performance is of him on the wing metres clear and being so tentative that he fumbles a slowly rolling ball over the boundary line. An embarassment.

I'm sorry connolly, you aren't really providing much of a convincing argument. You said that Davis was hopeless because of 2 reasons, both of which were incorrect (granted one was just your perception of an incident), and now you are looking for more?
Davis clearly didn't play on both half backs for the whole game, either way Harley and Wojcinski were both right around their season averages.

[NMWBloods]

The two Geelong half back flankers - Harley had 17 possessions and Wojcinski had 17 possessions. Davis racked up a mighty nine for the match. He gave two free kicks away with none for which indicates he played from behind for most of the match. He also has the highest ratio of uncontested possessions to contested possesions of our forwards in in the club. Davis was simply taken apart from the half forward line. He should not have been selected fit or otherwise. We needed more height on the forward line and White should have been given the chance. No doubt he will be next week. I still haven't got back to watch the replay but Davis stats are just woeful. My lasting impression of his performance is of him on the wing metres clear and being so tentative that he fumbles a slowly rolling ball over the boundary line. An embarassment.

Your arguments continue to lack credibility.

Harley had 3 possessions in the last quarter, so your claim that he destroyed the Swans off half back makes little sense. He also had 1 rebound 50 and many of his possessions were cheap ones reversing direction on the back of the square. I thought he played a good defensive game, but that happens.

What is the relevance of Wojak to Davis?

Given the ball went into our forward line only 38 times how was Davis going to dominate?

You have not commented on the poor stats of the other forwards, just Davis.

[hammo]

You have not commented on the poor stats of the other forwards, just Davis.

We all know O'Loughlin is immune from criticism.

[Triple B]

We all know O'Loughlin is immune from criticism.

MOL tried hard, competed well and was NEVER going to be a big player with the games best fullback, by a fair way as well, keeping him in check.

Hence the main reason Hall is a major loss..... #1 defender to MOL

[NMWBloods]

Hate Davo, Love Bevo!

Yeah, we know!

[connolly]

Your arguments continue to lack credibility.

Harley had 3 possessions in the last quarter, so your claim that he destroyed the Swans off half back makes little sense. He also had 1 rebound 50 and many of his possessions were cheap ones reversing direction on the back of the square. I thought he played a good defensive game, but that happens.

What is the relevance of Wojak to Davis?

Given the ball went into our forward line only 38 times how was Davis going to dominate?

You have not commented on the poor stats of the other forwards, just Davis.

The two half back flankers had 34 possessions between them. We did OK out of the middle particulalry in the 2nd and 3rd quarters. But we were comprehensively beaten across our half forward line in the first and last quarters. Magic was well beaten by Scarlett (no disgrace there - he's the best key position backman of the decade), Moore did well, ROK was up and about but kicked poorly and Davis was just missing for most of the game. His effort was particularly poor given that apart from Magic he was the most experienced forward on the paddock. Showed no leadership for the young players, was incapable of consistent hard ball possessions, put no strong pressure on the rebounding defenders and deserves to be back in the twos. Where he will be next week.

[NMWBloods]

The two half back flankers had 34 possessions between them. We did OK out of the middle particulalry in the 2nd and 3rd quarters. But we were comprehensively beaten across our half forward line in the first and last quarters.

We had just 38 I50s for the game - the ball didn't go in to the forward line enough to make a difference.
They had just 22 R50s for the game - not particularly high.
A half bank flanker getting 17 possessions is nothing special.
Harley had just 3 in the last qtr, so hardly destroyed us.
Wojak was on a different forward.

[dimelb]

We had just 38 I50s for the game - the ball didn't go in to the forward line enough to make a difference.
They had just 22 R50s for the game - not particularly high.
A half bank flanker getting 17 possessions is nothing special.
Harley had just 3 in the last qtr, so hardly destroyed us.
Wojak was on a different forward.

In other words, connolly's initials are BS.

[Triple B]

In other words, connolly's initials are BS.

Bevan Supporter.....guess that fits.

[connolly]

In other words, connolly's initials are BS.

Because I had the temerity to point out the bleeding obvious. That an experienced forward who racked up all of 9 touches, with one goal and one oob, had one contested possession out of three in a red hot game whilst his opponent had 17 possessions, actually played a shocker?

[goswannie14]

Because I had the temerity to point out the bleeding obvious. That an experienced forward who racked up all of 9 touches, with one goal and one oob, had one contested possession out of three in a red hot game whilst his opponent had 17 possessions, actually played a shocker?

No, because when another player, namely Paul Bevan, has a game like that, which is more often than not, you crap on about his best on ground performance, or make excuses for him.

[stellation]

Bevan got a little bit of the pill yesterday but honestly didn't seem particuarly good to me. If the ratio of contested to uncontested possessions is a true sign of being hard at the footy what does it say about Paul's game? With his 17 possessions overall 2 of them were contested, Davis had more contested possessions from his total of 10 overall. 10 uncontested marks contributed to Paul's 17 disposals.

Did connolly post much after last week's game when Bevan was, arguably, worst on ground for the Swans?

[Lucky Knickers]

I thought the team did well on the weekend. Davis and MOL were always going to have a tough job agst Cats defence. I think it showed the skill class difference between the Cats and us. Which is about right. We have some very young kids in our midfield and that was where we got smashed. Add to that no Barry Hall and no Kennelly what realistic chance were we?
I thought the team did extraordinarily well to get back so close. I didn't think anyone had a real shocker to be honest. Bevo and Jack did reasonably well on Ablett and will only get better from the experience.
There was lots to be pleased about. Jolly was awesome, Bird had his best by far, Leo was ok, Ablett and ROK were good.
We got beaten by a superb team who look the goods for another flag. We clawed our way back from a huge gap at Q1 and only got run over in the end.

[ScottH]

I think it has a lot to do with expectations.

We expect Davis to play well. When he doesn't he's had a shocker.
We expect Bevan to play OK to shockng. When he doesn't he's had a good game.
If these 2 player play the same, then the end result is the same as I pointed out above. One played above std, the other below.

Same with Mathews, his good games, are probably equivalent of Goodes poor game.

We know what both are capable of and what we expect of their games.

[NMWBloods]

Given their lack of opportunities our forwards did quite well actually. And I doubt it was because of great delivery to them.

22 scoring shots from 38 I50s = 59% conversion.

Geelong 34 from 57 = 60%.

Other comparables from the weekend:
North 32/52 = 62%
Collingwood 30/63 = 48%

Adelaide 28/41 = 68%
Fremantle 21/45 = 47%