All Australian Team 2016

[TiggerMan22]

Are you talking about 5x All Australian player, 3x All Australian captain, 3x Premiership player, 3x Geelong BnF winner, 4x AFLPA Most Courageous, 2007 Rising Star and AFLPA Best First Year player, 2014 Captain of Australia?

Is there anyone more qualified to be named '2016 AA Captain' than Joel Selwood?

Hey you figured it out. Selwood is only starting because there are no stand out captains.

 

[PhatBoy]

good stat..

Selwood had 8 games where he got 24 or less possessions.

so for 30+% of the season he has average to below average.

Kennedy was kept to 2 goals or less in 7 games.

End of argument.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

Thought it was a pretty decent team, maybe an eyebrow raised at Enright and Boyd, but they've had great years.

Would have liked Shuey to make the team, but it's hard to pick who to take out for him.

 

[TiggerMan22]

good stat..

Selwood had 8 games where he got 24 or less possessions.

so for 30+% of the season he has average to below average.

Also take out the 3 disposals a game he gets given for those ducking free kicks.

 

[GordonBlue]

The Carlton melts are great. Their side is a pathetic rabble but Cripps, Docherty and Simpson should be AA and the only reason they aren't is because Luke Darcy is biased.

How many games in a row did Carlton lose this year? Including losses to essendon and Brisbane.

Your players are nowhere near as good as you keep telling us they are

It's actually an indictment of Carlton that we had 3 standout players all year and could not win games for a long period. It shows how poor the rest of the team was.

Having said that, a vast majority of Carlton fans (and general AFL fans) had ONE of Simpson/Docherty in the side. Not both. Plus the argument for Cripps is for the squad and not team (and that is a valid argument). So making up saying Carlton fans are saying we should have 3 players in the AA is an argument you're making up and then arguing as the simpler type of people seem to do.

Plus for all our loses, for every terrible outing against average to shit sides, we had impressive showings against the best sides.

Not going to say any one player is undeserving, but Gillon even admitted that the selection panel pulls for players from their "state"... I would think it goes a little further than that, and for players that play for a team that are not represented in any way in the selection panel, when it comes to "even money" or even "slight favourite", these players will most likely miss out to a player that has a selector pulling for them.

 

[TiggerMan22]

Kennedy was kept to 2 goals or less in 7 games.

End of argument.

Not at all.
2 goals a game gives you 44 for the year. Considering only 11 players made that, that is clearly better than just average.
61 players reached an average of 24 touches a gane for the year on the other hand.

 

[TW Sherrin]

Kennedy was kept to 2 goals or less in 7 games.

End of argument.

yeh nah

 

[PhatBoy]

Not at all.
2 goals a game gives you 44 for the year. Considering only 11 players made that, that is clearly better than just average.
61 players reached an average of 24 touches a gane for the year on the other hand.

You're happy for a stand out, Coleman winning, focal point forward who is lauded as the best or second best goalkicker of the Era to kick 2 goals a game.

Do Richmond management subscribe to the same theory?

 

[Tyler Hodges]

This will be my 41st but still knew who Don Scott was, you know the bloke that singlehandedly saved your club.

Lol you do realise that thread was about the importance of dominant ruckman who gave their midfields first use. I said Hawks have built dynasties without notable ruckman doing that, Don Scott, bless him, is shorter than I am the bloke is 6'2 or 6'3 (can't remember) and played with heart and aggression, but was no Polly or Madden. But sure, just assume I don't know one of the biggest figures at our club, only the arrogance of a cats fan would assume such a thing.

 

[PhatBoy]

Also take out the 3 disposals a game he gets given for those ducking free kicks.

If they were balled up he'd just win a touch and a clearance at the stoppage anyway so no.

 

[Kram]

If Enright wore an Adelaide jumper or something absolutely no way he gets in the team.

 

[Sttew]

If Enright wore an Adelaide jumper or something absolutely no way he gets in the team.

Are you saying he is undeserving?

 

[Seeds]

Not at all.
2 goals a game gives you 44 for the year. Considering only 11 players made that, that is clearly better than just average.
61 players reached an average of 24 touches a gane for the year on the other hand.

Each team has 6-10 midfielders and only one full forward. 60 players vs 11 sounds about even.

 

[Sttew]

Hey you figured it out. Selwood is only starting because there are no stand out captains.

There is precedent for non-captains to be named AA captain

 

[Seeds]

If Enright wore an Adelaide jumper or something absolutely no way he gets in the team.

and yet he probably has 5-6 brownlow votes this year in his two games against adelaide.

 

[STP18]

So it seems the melts continued well into the night. Great effort BigFooty.


So Selwood and Enright should miss while Cripps, Simpson and Docherty make the side right? So the team who finished equal 1st only manages to get one player into the side while the team who finished 14th should have three players? There's a reason why your teams are finishing in the bottom half of the ladder, work it out.

Hint: Your players aren't as good as what you think they are.

Pictured: O Captain! My Captain!

 

[Underarm]

Whose team won the equal highest amount of games of the year and has the best record against the finalists? If he wasnt doing it then which players were? The other team who won as many games has five players in the aa team despite losing more games against finalists.

Sorry worded poorly. Zerrett had less impact than Jelwood.

 

[PhatBoy]

If Enright wore an Adelaide jumper or something absolutely no way he gets in the team.

Gold.

If he wore a purple one he'd have necked himself probably.

 

[Kram]

Gold.

If he wore a purple one he'd have necked himself probably.

Classy.

 

[PhatBoy]

Classy.

Cheers

 

[STP18]

Hey you figured it out. Selwood is only starting because there are no stand out captains.

You could put every captain in the league in the AA squad and Selwood would still be selected captain.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-08-24/joel-selwood-named-as-captain-of-20-in-20-academy-allstar-team

GEELONG champion Joel Selwood has been named captain of the NAB AFL Academy '20 in 20' all-star side to mark two decades of the prestigious program.

The three-time Cats premiership player, who graduated from the academy in 2006, beat a strong field of other captaincy candidates in the final team.

Selwood edged out Hawthorn's three-time premiership captain Luke Hodge, West Coast premiership skipper and Carlton leader Chris Judd, Sydney Swans premiership co-captain Jarrad McVeigh and his former Cats teammate Cameron Ling – all members of the 20-man line-up.

Former and present head coaches of the national academy gathered in Melbourne last month to select the line-up, named to celebrate the 20th intake of the program.

NAB AFL ACADEMY 20 in 20 TEAM

DEFENDERS: Joel Corey (Geel), Ben Reid (Coll), Luke Hodge (Haw), Grant Birchall (Haw), Michael Hurley (Ess), Jarrad McVeigh (Syd)
MIDFIELDERS: Chris Judd (WC/Carl), Patrick Dangerfield (Adel/Geel), Shaun Burgoyne (PA/Haw), Joel Selwood (captain, Geel), Cameron Ling (Geel), Nic Naitanui (WC)
FORWARDS: Cyril Rioli (Haw), Lance Franklin (Haw/Syd), Chad Wingard (PA), Luke Parker (Syd), Josh Kennedy (Carl/WC), Jarryd Roughead (Haw)
I/C: Scott Thompson (Melb/Adel), Daniel Wells (NM)

 

[ThatsjustDappa]

If Enright wore an Adelaide jumper or something absolutely no way he gets in the team.

 

[Sttew]

Enright is an all time great but it was nowhere near his best year. Has slowed down and doesn't give the same amount of drive off HB as in his prime. Looked slow when the Blues/Pies beat them.

So you pick 2 losses when most Cats were well down on form to make a stupid generalisation.. I don't think you actually saw him play in 2016, or you wouldn't be saying he has slowed down or didn't give the same drive.

 

[candiehappy]

good stat..

Selwood had 8 games where he got 24 or less possessions.

so for 30+% of the season he has average to below average.

probably depends on what you do with the ball, and the leadership and other efforts during the game.

PS - I think Pendles is a great leader, although on the bit of collingwood I saw maybe not as intense a year for him? There were a number of games where Selwood dragged the team over the line. Pendles may have done the same, I wouldn't know.

 

[Jobe Watson]

Don't know why people are arguing against Joel Selwood.

5th in the Coaches Votes, and will most likely finish top 5 in the Brownlow to boot. Averaged 112 Champion Data ranking points for the year which is better than Bontempelli. 4th in the league for clearances alongside Dangerfield, 9th for contested possessions, and unlike "1-2 king" Dusty Martin he didn't record 113 turnovers for the year (which is the most clangers ever recorded by a player in a H&A season, at 5.14 a game).