AFL Round 5, 2018 Discussion

[bornadog]

Pretty stirring/exciting stuff during the third quarter when Melbourne were challenging and got within 6 points and Richmond just relished the contest and found another gear. The three minutes of hot potato footy that ended up with Riewoldt’s goal was very exciting.

The last quarter was a powerful display.

Have Richmond played 5 straight at the G, I need to check that. They know how to play the ground.

Edit: They have played 4 for 4 wins and lost at Adelaide Oval

[ratsmac]

Have Richmond played 5 straight at the G, I need to check that. They know how to play the ground.

Edit: They have played 4 for 4 wins and lost at Adelaide Oval

Also they have only played 1 team that made the finals last year so far, Adelaide and lost. Blessed with bugger all injuries as well.

In saying that they are a very good team at the minute. Loving Jack "snags" Higgins. Smart player.

[The Underdog]

The AFL site lists Darcy Parish with an 86% disposal efficiency today. Apparently if your disposal lands on the MCG that counts because I’m pretty sure all of his disposals hit turf before anything else.

[Twodogs]

The AFL site lists Darcy Parish with an 86% disposal efficiency today. Apparently if your disposal lands on the MCG that counts because I’m pretty sure all of his disposals hit turf before anything else.

One hand off the ground still counts as out!

I think you're right so long as it bounced off the ground and hit another player then it was an efficient disposal.

[Mofra]

The AFL site lists Darcy Parish with an 86% disposal efficiency today. Apparently if your disposal lands on the MCG that counts because I’m pretty sure all of his disposals hit turf before anything else.

Stats were useless in the Anzac day game - Essendon had so many "effective" sideways kicks it padded their numbers, and they somehow managed an equal tackle count despite Collingwood's pressure and defensive set up being vastly superior all day.

I did enjoy seeing them lose though. Well done on "winning trade period" though, I'm sure we'll just have to be content with our two first round picks last draft.

[Twodogs]

Stats were useless in the Anzac day game - Essendon had so many "effective" sideways kicks it padded their numbers, and they somehow managed an equal tackle count despite Collingwood's pressure and defensive set up being vastly superior all day.

I did enjoy seeing them lose though. Well done on "winning trade period" though, I'm sure we'll just have to be content with our two first round picks last draft.

They won trade period but we won Naughton and Richards.

Serious about Essendon having the same amount of tackles? I'm surprised. Apart from anything else a lot of the Essendon players have really lazy tackling techniques and they give away a lot of free kicks. A lot of the tackles I saw them lay they gave a free kicks away.

[jeemak]

I'm loving that Goddard is getting a kicking today.

Happened to be taking clients to the game yesterday, one of whom is an EFC supporter. Was well satisfied watching Jake miss a sitter from 20m out directly in front.

[Remi Moses]

Malthouse was scathing of Stringer along the lines of needing the proverbial rocket inserted .
Mate described their forward half as like the lollipop lady letting everyone through .

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Some of Essendon's kids are average - Parish is a bit of a media darling but he's more vanilla than essence.

[soupman]

Some of Essendon's kids are average - Parish is a bit of a media darling but he's more vanilla than essence.

I was saying almost the same thing. Parish is tidy and a good ordinary player, but lacks hurt factor and is the least intimidating player in the league. Poor Essendon, to think they spent picks 5 and 6 on Parish and Aaron Francis.

[Twodogs]

And doesn't Parish telegraph everthing he is about to do and spend forever actually doing it? I think that's why he is a media darling, commentaters think he has time and space because he makes his target wait because he takes forever to get rid of it and they can see what he is trying to do.

[The Underdog]

Some of Essendon's kids are average - Parish is a bit of a media darling but he's more vanilla than essence.

Any of his possessions which go more than 10m forward miss the target 9 times out of 10

[LostDoggy]

That draft was such a big deal for Essendon after their bans. They had 4 top 30 picks and went Parish and Francis as Top 10ers and then Morgan and Redman in the 20s. Hilarious.

[bornadog]

That draft was such a big deal for Essendon after their bans. They had 4 top 30 picks and went Parish and Francis as Top 10ers and then Morgan and Redman in the 20s. Hilarious.

They were lucky to be in the competition.

[Twodogs]

They were lucky to be in the competition.

They shouldn't have had any picks in the 2016 draft. It was a farce they kept their number 1 pick.