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With a bit of spare time at work, I’ve put together a small spreadsheet that tracks the TAC Cup stats of our potential father/son pick ups: Mitch Wallis and Tom Liberatore.
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Even though it’s only a reasonably small sample (4 games) - looking at those stats, it tells you a fair bit about what sort of players they are.
Mitch uses the ball by foot the majority of time (and uses it well), and gets half of his possessions through handball receives, suggesting that he’s an outside player that his teammates look for to dispose the ball well. Against the Rebel, he set up primarily on the wing, but also had stints in the middle and at half forward.
Tom prefers to handball 50% of the time, and from seeing him play a couple of times, I’d suggest a large amount of his handballs are contested as he is a genuine inside-midfielder in the Sam Mitchell-mold.
He doesn’t use the ball as well as Mitch, particularly by foot, but had fantastic game against the Rebels finishing with 29 disposals, 3 marks and 9 tackles (I’m sure this made his dad smile
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It’ll be interesting to see how they go for the rest of the year – there is a 3 week break from APS footy where they’ll play for the Cannons so I’ll try and update the stats.
If we do take both, we’ll be getting two very different midfielders – an attacking wingman with a good goal sense, and an inside extractor.
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Even though it’s only a reasonably small sample (4 games) - looking at those stats, it tells you a fair bit about what sort of players they are.
Mitch uses the ball by foot the majority of time (and uses it well), and gets half of his possessions through handball receives, suggesting that he’s an outside player that his teammates look for to dispose the ball well. Against the Rebel, he set up primarily on the wing, but also had stints in the middle and at half forward.
Tom prefers to handball 50% of the time, and from seeing him play a couple of times, I’d suggest a large amount of his handballs are contested as he is a genuine inside-midfielder in the Sam Mitchell-mold.
He doesn’t use the ball as well as Mitch, particularly by foot, but had fantastic game against the Rebels finishing with 29 disposals, 3 marks and 9 tackles (I’m sure this made his dad smile
)It’ll be interesting to see how they go for the rest of the year – there is a 3 week break from APS footy where they’ll play for the Cannons so I’ll try and update the stats.
If we do take both, we’ll be getting two very different midfielders – an attacking wingman with a good goal sense, and an inside extractor.
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