AFLW 2024 - Round 2 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
No mate your just absolutely missing the point and its clear in the bolded statement. I literally proved this statement to be incorrect as the stats show Wick's best seasons have come when Sydney as a team haven't played well. So why is Wicks on form when the team is out of form but he is out of form when the team is in form.
No-one really questions anyone when things are going well. Well, some people on here will dump on particular players no matter what, but generally.
Dude, because i told you stats don't represent everything, i literally do not care what his numbers were, every game and circumstance is different and a comparative drop/increase of some numbers by a couple don't mean anything. I'm looking at the way he plays (to the eye) under certain circumstances. The higher stats don't necessarily mean he was better. If the team is having an off day you might be trying to do other things to get involved, lay tackles, pressure etc - that will likely inflate your numbers in those areas. Compare that to having a midfield playing through its skin to work off, all of a sudden all you have to worry about is finding space and being used. Chances are in those circumstances you won't need to pressure and tackle as much, and just worry about collecting a few over the top possessions and have much more deadly affect on the scoreboard than when doing it hard (despite worse numbers). That's where Wick's attributes come into their own, Rohan is another great example of that. Idgaf about his tackle number in that situation, i want to see him peel off and be a scoring weapon a handful of times before the ball even has a chance to hit the deck in the forward line requiring forward pressure.
Firstly, and I don't know why this ever needs repeating as often as it does, we are not playing fantasy footy. I do not care how many possessions you have as long as you are doing your job and use the ball well enough when you have it.
This i can agree with. I did notice a few times where Wicks bottled the ball. But just because it happened a few times over the space of two games doesn't mean you're all of a sudden 'out of form', sometimes you can just have a few moments of shit luck happen in quick succession (happens to Gulden multiple times per game at times before he turns it on). For someone who has been a weapon over a long stretch, he'd have to have a run of 5+ games of completely botching the footy for me to be like ok maybe something mentally or physically off. That's also why Florent and Blakey are still getting a game.
Its actually so tough to even read your long replies because they go off the hinge so quickly. What does Ginnivan provide that actually leads to us winning football games.
All I know is that I'm going to be on Wicks watch tomorrow night.
You're clearly trying to look at it on a basic level. Might be a long reply but it does explain the nuisances of the role to a tee.
So it seems you are saying we are making the Grannie this year.
Before i start lets just add that in the most recent game Sam Wicks had 1 Score involvement
Past the first week of September, but idk if that is saying much given the fact we are pretty much nailed on for the double chance
Its saying a lot that the sports reporter for Tribunals is the second best commentator in a pool of 5
? He's not commentating..
