https://www.sen.com.au/news/2022/04/25/ ... m-round-6/Buckley's view:
3. Percentage is a great guide
“We’ve got enough data now, six games in, we’ve got enough of a guide, and percentage is what you want to look for.”
“The only team in the top eight without a percentage of 100 is Carlton, the only team out of the top eight with a percentage above 100 is the Bulldogs.
“I think Carlton are the most vulnerable side in the top eight.
“Everyone says that they’re such a great stoppage side, they’re middle of the road for scores from stoppage.
“So it is their stronger point to their scoring, but it’s not great against the rest of the competition.
“They need to fix their transition footy first and foremost… when they attack they need to be able to defend better as a unit behind it, and when they’re defending, they need to be able to move the ball with more effectiveness from the back half.
“It can happen (mid-season), but right now they’ve won games off the back of bursts of football from clearance, and that’s why everyone sees that their clearance is strong, and aerial dominance in their forward 50.
“It’s something that can easily come and go, and it’s something that we’ve seen in their games.
“Their defenders are holding up really well, a lot of their name players through the middle are performing well, Charlie Curnow and Harry McKay, I don’t reckon you can get more out of the individuals at the moment.
“So then collectively, they’re not really gelling over a four quarter performance.
“What we’re seeing is that their best is exceptional, and that’s a great thing to have… all you have to do, and this where the work has to be done by the coaching group, by the club, by the players themselves, is to continue to bump up your average performance.
“And the way you do that is your low level needs to improve, and that takes time, we can’t be expecting that at this stage with a new coaching structure, it takes time for that to be established.”