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Strangely, the Essendon flogs I used to work with who sent me this week after week for the last two years, had to be reminded of thisLet’s see SEN publish this.
Who publishes this?
Especially funny considering that their game vs St Kilda and to some extent Sydney were probably the first time in ages they were first to the ball. And even then they nearly ****ed it up and only beat St Kilda because they somehow played worse.Strangely, the Essendon flogs I used to work with who sent me this week after week for the last two years, had to be reminded of this
Their response “see what happens when you are first to the ball”
******* w***ers the lot of them
That’s what I used to tell themStill the laziest piece of analysis available. Some teams transgress more than others, yet people decide to use this as evidence of grand conspiracies or favouratism.
Furthermore, the simple fact is that there is no significant correlation between free kick count differential and winning games of football, across many years of data - a point lost on all football fans who bring up free kick counts.
The real problem here is listening to Bombres fans.Strangely, the Essendon flogs I used to work with who sent me this week after week for the last two years, had to be reminded of this
Their response “see what happens when you are first to the ball”
******* w***ers the lot of them
It looks to me as if there is there is a larger cluster of results in the top right quadrant, but it is not that marked and, anyway, a reasonable interpretation is that the better teams are generally also better at giving away less frees.Devastating to watch the effect of our new game style which, so far, results in receiving less free kicks than the opposition. It's such an important stat, no wonder it's brought up ad nauseam on this website.
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No you’ve got it all wrong. We threw the ball and weren’t penalised, and were given non-existent frees in front of goal while our opponents were deprived of frees they deserved, and all our players ducked, and the AFL wanted us to win, and the presiding umpire in the GF was a Bulldogs supporter. Being first to the ball was never a factorIt looks to me as if there is there is a larger cluster of results in the top right quadrant, but it is not that marked and, anyway, a reasonable interpretation is that the better teams are generally also better at giving away less frees.
In my opinion,in 2015 & 2016, when Bevo got coach of year and we were playing an innovative brand of football that took other teams some time to work out or copy, we got a lot of free kicks because our style of moving the ball en mass up the ground using lots of "in the phone booth" handballs, frustrated the opposition to the point that they became reckless in their tackling over and over again. We also had a clutch of players who were exceptionally good at getting in first to the ball in tight in and under loose ball contests. Clay, Picken, Libba, Dahl, Moyd, Hunter and Macrae, for starters.
Welcome to the board, Mr Longmire.No you’ve got it all wrong. We threw the ball and weren’t penalised, and were given non-existent frees in front of goal while our opponents were deprived of frees they deserved, and all our players ducked, and the AFL wanted us to win, and the presiding umpire in the GF was a Bulldogs supporter. Being first to the ball was never a factor![]()