Open Season on Aaron Naughton??

[angelopetraglia]

% of score involvements for your team

Hogan 35%
Naughton 33%
Daniher 32%
J Cameron 30%
McKay 29%
Curnow 28%
Dixon 25%
Marra 23%

[angelopetraglia]

Goal Assist Avg

Hogan 1.3
Naughton 1.3
Daniher 0.5
J Cameron 0.5
McKay 0.5
Curnow 0.3
Marra 0.3
Dixon 0.3

[jeemak]

That just tells me how amazing all of the other players are, and that Luke Beveridge has a real problem with his overpaid star player not getting on the end of scoring chains.

[angelopetraglia]

Inside 50s

Daniher 5.5
J Cameron 3.5
Naughton 3.3
Marra 3.0
Curnow 2.8
McKay 2.3
Dixon 1.5
Hogan 1.0

[angelopetraglia]

Obvious that he is playing a very different role and you just need to look at his stats verus the last few seasons to see that. So many lazy journalists or the cynic in me says that they just choose the story they want to tell to push their own already existing narrative.

[angelopetraglia]

Naughton in 2023 v 2024

Score Involement 26% Vs 33%
Goal Assists 1.0 Vs 1.3
Inside 50s 1.9 Vs 3.3

So Aaron is being beat up for being involved in more scores than last year. An incredible 33% of scores he is involved in. Generating 33% more goal assists per game and generating a lot more inside 50s.

Go it. March on to you next made up target.

[angelopetraglia]

Score Involvement % for entire league. Top 20. Naughton in pretty elite company.

Christian Petracca 40.8
Max King 39.1
Isaac Heeney 37.1
Jake Waterman 36.8
Marcus Bontempelli 35.2
Jesse Hogan 34.8
Hugh Greenwood 33.3
Touk Miller 33.3
Zach Merrett 33.3
Aaron Naughton 33.0
Jack Higgins 33.0
Elliot Yeo 32.9
Jamie Cripps 32.9
Connor Rozee 32.8
Patrick Dangerfield 32.7
Lloyd Meek 32.4
Joe Daniher 32.3
Dylan Moore 32.1
James Worpel 32.1
Liam Henry 31.9

[angelopetraglia]

Naughton only behind Bontepelli for Goal Assists and % of Score Involvements for the Dogs.

[jeemak]

Yeah but isn't Connor Rozee amazing? He just does everything.

[mjp]

Yeah but isn't Connor Rozee amazing? He just does everything.

Connor Rozee is actually amazing.

[jeemak]

Connor Rozee is actually amazing.

Yeah he is. But he isn't involved in scoring as much as Aaron Naughton is. Therefore, Naughton is amazing!

[angelopetraglia]

[jazzadogs]

I really liked Bevo's response. Aligned with a lot of what has been said in this thread, by people who have actually watched Aaron play this year.

[Sedat]

I really liked Bevo's response. Aligned with a lot of what has been said in this thread, by people who have actually watched Aaron play this year.

There's something like 4 million deadshits covering AFEL in the media, and not one of them can see the bleeding obvious in relation to how Naughts has been deployed within our system the last few weeks.

#CoNtEnT

[angelopetraglia]

There's something like 4 million deadshits covering AFEL in the media, and not one of them can see the bleeding obvious in relation to how Naughts has been deployed within our system the last few weeks.

#CoNtEnT

There is an abundance of journalists who want to cover "breaking news" and the sensationalist stories. There is a lack of journalists who are doing proper deep dive analysis that the people who contribute on this board would appreciate.

The contributers on this board offer a lot more when it comes to actually understanding what is happening within the games when it comes to the Western Bulldogs (and also other teams) compared with all the journalists who are paid full time to cover the game.