More shit analysis jim.

It does bring me great joy to watch you spends hours contorting stats to help support your dumbarse theories.

Cripps getting frustrated by having to carry the side without any support from more-senior mids
As bad as our fwd line is, our mids at the moment are non existent.
And I50's can be inaccurate stat.
Our mids need to be hitting the scoreboard or manufacturing a scoring opportunity without using the insipid fwds more often
Murphy, Gibbs, Thomas and Graham come to mind

Gibbs - 23 pressure acts, 2nd only to Cripps between the two sides; 6 scoring involvements, an equal team high with Lamb and Docherty and equal 3rd on the ground with 7 players. Worked hard in the bubble; didn't get enough intelligent support to create on the spread, 101 of a possible 118 minutes.

Murphy still had 3 score involvements and 9 pressure acts.

Thomas - 5 score involvements, 14 pressure acts playing as the link between defence and midfield; made some smart decisions with the football that opened up the game for others.

The problem isn't those three, it's how everybody's linking up with them and each other. In those performance indicators, no Dogs player shined brighter, they just had their effort rewarded by assistance from others, resulting in a greater spread.

Lamb, Sumner and Buckley provided some of this and are trending upwards in these categories, but Casboult, Phillips, Rowe and Graham were way down on the night. The focus should be on them, not the prime movers in a half-broken machine.

To speak in metaphors: stop pointing at the shiny spoon with a bit of muck on it, and notice to the rusty fork that people are cutting themselves on.


They completely dropped their heads in the second quarter, particularly in the defensive unit. Byrne wanted the ground to open up when he made that turnover, while Rowe looked like he didn't want to be there. At least Tuohy and Docherty were trying to re-ignite them. Rowe can @#$%&! off.

Graham was shit
Gibbs was inconsistent in terms of scoreboard impact but still had a lot of involvements and kicked 1.1
Murphy was instrumental in the half that he played
Thomas was influential when he wasn't moping up down back

10 disposals, 3 scoring involvements; that's getting involved in a chain of possession that leads to a shot on goal at least 30% of the time.

He was, by that limited measure and in that limited game time, influential by creating run and spread then using the ball well. It's hardly spin.

Do people think we need more players like Murphy or less?

10 disposals, 3 scoring involvements; that's getting involved in a chain of possession that leads to a shot on goal at least 30% of the time.

He was, by that limited measure and in that limited game time, influential by creating run and spread then using the ball well. It's hardly spin.

Do people think we need more players like Murphy or less?

Sam Rowe averages 1.5 score involvements a game from CHB.