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[ScottH]

How does Luke Ablett escape scrutiny?

10 possessions 7k 3hb, 6 uncontested possessions, 3 clangers.
Positive - 4 tackles
He was ordinary and doesn't get to anywhere near enough contests and when he does is as slow as a wet week getting rid of it.

He's been very ordinary for most of this year, so far.

[Bloody Hell]

I guess the real question is - is that 5 or 6 out and 5 or 6 in???

From ORB - "Nick Davis was my BOG. While his disposal has remained immaculate, his attack on the ball and work off it has steadily improved over the last three weeks. His move up to the midfield in the third quarter was the game breaker."

[swantastic]

From ORB - "Nick Davis was my BOG. While his disposal has remained immaculate, his attack on the ball and work off it has steadily improved over the last three weeks. His move up to the midfield in the third quarter was the game breaker."

Yeh yeh yeh we've heard all this bull @@@@ before so then bring him back in and he does nothing in the seniors.

[connolly]

There's a quote from Paul Roos in the SMH today about how we normally need a lot of guys playing well for us to win but against Port we won despite 5 or 6 guys having poor games. Thoughts on who he meant?

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Not really. But he meant this - "Bevo has been outstanding."

[Young Blood]

How does Luke Ablett escape scrutiny?

Beats me how Jude cops so much flak (often deserved) while Ablett cops so little.

With Jude playing so well on Saturday, and generally better over the past few weeks, surely Ablett is now the senior player under most pressure to hold his spot. (I think Bird is also under pressure).

[Zlatorog]

Jude cops so much flak because of his consistency (or the lack of). We know what he's capable of, but he doesn't deliever every game. Ablett to me is a non-entity and will never understand why is he still in the side. It must be a role that he's playing in the team, the only problem is that I don't understand what that is.

[AnnieH]

Jude cops so much flak because of his consistency (or the lack of). We know what he's capable of, but he doesn't deliever every game. Ablett to me is a non-entity and will never understand why is he still in the side. It must be a role that he's playing in the team, the only problem is that I don't understand what that is.

It's killing me to say this, but I think one of our MOST improved players this year is Ablett.

His disposals are a lot more accurate than they have been in the past (i.e. he's probably got an effective rate now of 25%, compared to 0% this time last year); he is normally on the bottom of the pack (if he's not, then Kirky is); and he's learnt that he has a huge thumping kick and can use it. He seems to have found his footy brains.

[bandwagon]

Beats me how Jude cops so much flak (often deserved) while Ablett cops so little.

With Jude playing so well on Saturday, and generally better over the past few weeks, surely Ablett is now the senior player under most pressure to hold his spot. (I think Bird is also under pressure).

Spot on. I know J.Bolton has no upside any more, but Ablett is 25-26 so is unlikely to improve much.

[Zlatorog]

Annie, I totally agree with you that Ablett has a booming kick, but I wonder how effective they are. I lot of times I have an impression that he doesn't look at all who is he kicking to. I wonder if our stats gurus can tell us how many time has Ablett set up a goal with his booming kicks. I would imagine that players like ROK are much better with their kicks than Ablett.

[AnnieH]

Annie, I totally agree with you that Ablett has a booming kick, but I wonder how effective they are. I lot of times I have an impression that he doesn't look at all who is he kicking to. I wonder if our stats gurus can tell us how many time has Ablett set up a goal with his booming kicks. I would imagine that players like ROK are much better with their kicks than Ablett.

Absolutely.

His effective disposal rate in the past has been 0%.

I used my calculator to come up with a "possible" efficiency rate of 25% ... perhaps I was being far too generous.

He has improved on last year. Although he still can't be trusted not to kick it to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

[TheHood]

Absolutely.

His effective disposal rate in the past has been 0%.

I used my calculator to come up with a "possible" efficiency rate of 25% ... perhaps I was being far too generous.

He has improved on last year. Although he still can't be trusted not to kick it to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Missed almost all of his set shots on goal for the past 2 years too. He was a better set shot in 2003.