Apart from Melbourne which clubs have poor midfields?

[Barry_Badrinath]

win v Carlton 106 to 101
loss v Collingwood 79 to 113
loss v Fremantle 80 to 81
loss v Geelong 87 to 131
win v Port Adelaide 114 to 73
loss v Essendon 62 to 91
win v Fremantle 84 to 57
loss v Sydney 63 to 110
win v Hawthorn 107 to 66
loss v Carlton 96 to 106
win v Essendon 104 to 65
loss v Carlton 96 to 116


5 wins and 7 losses against the teams who made finals and yes, Essendon included.
41% strike rate.

That's not what you asked. For a team that finished 7th a 5/12 win rate against top 8 sides isn't bad. They conceeded 92.5 points per game against those sides. Certainly not bad. What are you trying to say exactly?

 

[Yelle]

Lets just say 9 players makes a modern midfeild,
A+=4
A=3
B=2
C=1

Adl: A+= Dangerfeild. A= Sloane. B= Thompson, Crouch, Douglas. 17.

Bris: A= Rockliff, Rich, Hanley. B= Moloney, Redden, Zorko
17

Carl: A= Murphy, Judd. B= Gibbs, Thomas, Carazzo, Simpson, McLean, Walker. 19

Coll: A+= Swan, Pendelbury. A= Beams. B= Ball, Sidebottom, Adams, Young. 21

Ess: A+= Watson. A= Goddard, Heppell. B= Stanton, Zaharakis, Chapman. 19

Freo: A+= Fyfe. A= Mundy, Hill, Barlow. B= Crowley, Sylvia, Pearce, Pearce. 22

Geel: A+= Selwood, Johnson. A= Bartel, Kelly, Motlop. B= Caddy, Stokes, Christensen. 24

GC: A+= Ablett A= Bennell. B= O'Meara, Swallow.
16

Haw: A+= Mitchell A= Hodge, Lewis, Smith. B= Sewell, Hill, Puopolo, Rioli, Burgoyne. 23

Melb: A= Jones. B= Vince, Cross.
13

North: A= Wells, Swallow. B= Harvey, Zeibell, DalSanto, Cunnington. 17

Port: A= Boak. B= Hartlett, Ebert, Cornes, Wines.
15

Rich: A= Cotchin, Deledio, Martin. B= Jackson, Foley, Grigg. 18

ST.K: A= Stevens, Montagna. B= Hayes, Armitage.
15

Syd: A= Kennedy, Jack, Hannebury, McVeigh B= O'Keffe, Goodes, Mitchell, Jetta, Parker. 22

WC: A= Priddis B= Shuey, Gaff, Selwood, Masten, Wellingham Ellis. 17

WB: A+= Griffen. A= Boyd. B= Liberatore, Cooney, Dalahuse, Higgins. 18

GWS: B= Ward, Greene, Shiel, Whitfeild, Coniglio. 14

F*cking lol. You've got to be kidding me. So you're telling me;
- Isaac Smith is on the same level as Kieran Jack, Trent Cotchin, Jack Steven, Josh Kennedy, Leigh Montagna, Jimmy Bartel, Rory Sloane, Travis Boak and Dayne Beams
- Paul Puopolo & Bradley Hill are on the same level as Brent Harvey, Lenny Hayes, Adam Goodes, Ryan O'Keefe, Tom Liberatore, Luke Shuey, Hamish Hartlett and Callan Ward

The scary thing about this is you're probably genuine. F*ck me. This is disgracefully bias.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

To be honest, Geelong needs a few of the younger brigade to step up. Unless Kelly has a bounce back year, or Bartel becomes a full-time midfielder again, there needs to be a significant step up in production from Duncan/Christensen/Caddy/Varcoe (second tier) and Horlin-Smith/Murdoch/Schroder/Stringer/Cowan/Sheringham to assist Selwood, Stokes and Johnson. Not saying every one of those players has to improve, but we probably need to find another AA-calibre midfielder from the second group (two would be nice) and 2-3 regular senior players from the third group.

 

[JD11]

Essendons is not very good, let's be honest. Goes well when it goes well but when it ain't goin well, then, well, it aint goin so well.

 

[The Blue Baggers]

had to laugh ... heppell an a grader ???

and cotchin ? a grade midfielders kick more than 3 goals a year !

 

[Cynic]

To be honest, Geelong needs a few of the younger brigade to step up. Unless Kelly has a bounce back year, or Bartel becomes a full-time midfielder again, there needs to be a significant step up in production from Duncan/Christensen/Caddy/Varcoe (second tier) and Horlin-Smith/Murdoch/Schroder/Stringer/Cowan/Sheringham to assist Selwood, Stokes and Johnson. Not saying every one of those players has to improve, but we probably need to find another AA-calibre midfielder from the second group (two would be nice) and 2-3 regular senior players from the third group.

Same applies to Hawthorn. Our top tier is getting long in the tooth and while our second tier of Omith, Hill & Shiel were serviceable to good at stages we're going to need a bit of improvement to compensate for our older blokes getting well older. As with Geelong of course if one of the younger untried brigade steps right in that'll help a heap.

 

[Kram]

North? Not a chance. Swallow, Dal Santo, Wells, Harvey, Atley, Ziebell

Some talent but also some serious down hill skiing there, North's midfield is really overrated for mine.

 

[Zerg]

had to troll, i do it in every thread about Essendon ... heppell an a grader ???

and cotchin ? a grade midfielders kick more than 3 goals a year !

efa

 

[tazaa]

By the way, I think you should change your username.
Azza plays for Richmond now, whilst you guys have Robbie Nahas.
Enjoy.

Azza Black.

lols would be had when Cotchin goes to Hawthorn

 

[Zerg]

To be honest, Geelong needs a few of the younger brigade to step up. Unless Kelly has a bounce back year, or Bartel becomes a full-time midfielder again, there needs to be a significant step up in production from Duncan/Christensen/Caddy/Varcoe (second tier) and Horlin-Smith/Murdoch/Schroder/Stringer/Cowan/Sheringham to assist Selwood, Stokes and Johnson. Not saying every one of those players has to improve, but we probably need to find another AA-calibre midfielder from the second group (two would be nice) and 2-3 regular senior players from the third group.

I doubt you are going to see a "significant step up" from Duncan as he is already a very good productive player and while he will keep improving, it's more likely to be incremental rather than large leaps.

Christensen needs to work harder, Caddy is slowly improving and Varcoe needs a decent run injury wise. The best of Kelly and Bartell is well behind them and you are right you need their replacements to start stepping up but you have plenty of options to do this and they don't really need to do it in one big jump.

I think you are in a pretty decent position.

 

[tazaa]

Your peers dont seem to agree:
http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/worst-midfield-group-in-the-league.986958/

you seriously quoted the bay?

 

[Jade's]

you seriously quoted the bay?

The people have spoken. I'll take the general publics word more so than the supporters of said club

 

[Forward Press]

Thread's done.