Autopsy Round 6, 2024: Positives and Negatives vs Fremantle

[flyinghi64]

Neg, oppo no longer thinking they have an easy game when they play us.
Weird to say.
Good thing we got 4 of the better teams out of the way already, 5 Inc tonight.

 

[Dylan82]

After Carlton defeated GWS today, Fremantle came into Derby 58 with the best average contested possession differential in the competition.

They had minimal injury concerns, an extra day of rest and plenty of reason to be breathing fire after repeat close losses from winning positions.

Instead, West Coast won contested possessions by 24.


To provide further context, the +38 contested possessions against Richmond last week was the first time the club had gone +20 in that statistic since Round 12, 2021 (defeating Carlton at the SCG).

Such performances back-to-back had not occurred for the club since Round 21, 2018 (the McGovern goal after siren game vs Port).

Until today, that is.


Something seismic is underway here. The current turnaround in contested possessions is quite staggering.



Especially when you consider that over the past five seasons, ranking top 4 in contested possession differential correlates with a 75% rate of success of a team finishing either top 4 on the ladder or final 4 in finals.

Now of course correlation is not causation, but it is an additional encouraging piece of information that things are on the right track.


Or to put it another way, here is what contested possession differential at the club has looked like since 2018 - the recent period of improvement is clearly apparent.




Not bad for a club that a month ago was apparently in the need of a 10 year rebuild.

Now watch those priority pick discussions vaporise if this continues to hold.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Missing this one, annoyingly. Will try to dodge scores and watch an untainted replay.

God speed. Eagles by a million.

Well **** me.

 

[Broken_Chairs]

Especially when you consider that over the past five seasons, ranking top 4 in contested possession differential correlates with a 75% rate of success of a team finishing either top 4 on the ladder or final 4 in finals.

Top 4 here we come baby

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Another five goals and 13.5km (team high) for Junktime Jake.

Delist imo

 

[amazingjoshy]

2m on Darcy/Jackson or whatever scraps we're paying Bailey Williams

+ve: More evidence rucks don't really matter

 

[MeltMan]

Well * me.

Midnight replay?

 

[MeltMan]

Another five goals and 13.5km (team high) for Junktime Jake.

Delist imo

Id call for another poddy, but idk if we want to see your Keys or Miguel Sanchez o faces.

 

[MeltMan]

Another five goals and 13.5km (team high) for Junktime Jake.

Delist imo

Rivaling subi boi with those numbers.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Midnight replay?

Back-to-back weddings. Avoided the score entirely. Home around 12.

“I’ll just watch a quarter and pick the rest up tomorrow,” he reckons.

Love the boys. Love you all.

 

[MeltMan]

Back-to-back weddings. Avoided the score entirely. Home around 12.

“I’ll just watch a quarter and pick the rest up tomorrow,” he reckons.

Love the boys. Love you all.

Can't they have the decency to book it when we play a Friday night game oh never mind

 

[MeltMan]

Back-to-back weddings. Avoided the score entirely. Home around 12.

“I’ll just watch a quarter and pick the rest up tomorrow,” he reckons.

Love the boys. Love you all.

I'll just watch a quarter is strong midnight snacking energy. Chips or maltesers

 

[amazingjoshy]

 

[Nuggets73]

Excuse the intrusion boys, that was a hell of win … looks like you guys have turned a corner.

Great effort, future looks bright

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Negative: Failed to trade our 2024 first (Pick 18) for Curtin.

 

[W.C. Fry]

Positives
Not that it's ever been an issue, but getting it up for the wife wont be a problem tonight.

My wife gets me. She sent this text some time during the 3rd quarter "You need to sleep somewhere else if they win. You'll be all kinds of ****ed up"

She was right. Just got home now. Couch time

So, after missing the only home win last year due to my dad rudely being born that day 70 years ago, I went the best part of 2 years without witnessing an Eagles victory. Now 2 in 2 weeks, with about as many goals kicked in those 2 weeks as we have kicked in the last 2 seasons total. That was cause for celebration!

 

[PepperTom32]

Read this before as the warm up

Preview - We Feel Like Chicken Tonight... Freo vs Eagles Derby 58

Well here it is! I must admit that when I put my hand up for this I didn't think I'd be facing the unholy trinity of AFL/Adelaide's F**k Y*o to the Dockers, the Eagles getting a game against Richmond Reserves and school starting back, yet here we are. I was lucky enough to start following the...

www.bigfooty.com

So much egg on face after some of these predictions

That’s really some delicious reading.

 

[Marlin01]

Derby 58 summarised in 7 seconds.

 

[kranky al]

- apparently some knob head abused walters as they were coming from the ground i hope it wasnt racial but the freo players and staff were pointing him out to security

The only colour based abuse that is ok is purple……

 

[bombard]

 

[Doashuey]

Waking up this morning like

 

[Astro7]

Is it time to break open the Chardonnay?
A milestone win for the ages!
All the dots finally joining up, a real team effort, even players that have been out of sorts stood up. We have a fully invested team! They believe and they're hungry.
The pressure was outstanding.
My only slight neg - ol' clunky Jack, he did better, 2 goals, but what's with all the glitchy dropped marks each week?

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

After Carlton defeated GWS today, Fremantle came into Derby 58 with the best average contested possession differential in the competition.

They had minimal injury concerns, an extra day of rest and plenty of reason to be breathing fire after repeat close losses from winning positions.

Instead, West Coast won contested possessions by 24.


To provide further context, the +38 contested possessions against Richmond last week was the first time the club had gone +20 in that statistic since Round 12, 2021 (defeating Carlton at the SCG).

Such performances back-to-back had not occurred for the club since Round 21, 2018 (the McGovern goal after siren game vs Port).

Until today, that is.


Something seismic is underway here. The current turnaround in contested possessions is quite staggering.

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Especially when you consider that over the past five seasons, ranking top 4 in contested possession differential correlates with a 75% rate of success of a team finishing either top 4 on the ladder or final 4 in finals.

Now of course correlation is not causation, but it is an additional encouraging piece of information that things are on the right track.


Or to put it another way, here is what contested possession differential at the club has looked like since 2018 - the recent period of improvement is clearly apparent.

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Not bad for a club that a month ago was apparently in the need of a 10 year rebuild.

Now watch those priority pick discussions vaporise if this continues to hold.

Bus booked for the epic road trip across the Nullarbor during Grand Final week

 

[kranky al]

Another five goals and 13.5km (team high) for Junktime Jake.

Delist imo

Delist, rookie then delist again just to keep the nuffs happy

 

[kranky al]

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Dat parity thread…..