VFL VFL 2024 - Geelong & the greater league

[Grimoz]

Foster 3 possessions?

He will be done at the club at the end of the season i reckon, has shown nothing

 

[lettheboysplay]

I strongly disagree on both fronts.

1. He was sub. Watching him every week only ends up enraging me. There is nothing he excels at but tackling. A metric for footballers without the footy.
2. In his free agency year and has reached a disposal average above 20 just once. Unlikely to do so this season. That is objectively by anyone's measure below AFL average and below AFL standard.

Comparing Brandan to Bews is very unfair on Jed. Jed has actually at times been very good in his position.

Sounds like a you problem that you're enraged by the presence of a footballer. I'd suggest meditation or just growing up.

Premiership player, brother. I'll let Jimmy Bartel know you don't rate tackles in spite of his 16 he laid in the 2009 GF.

 

[Grimoz]

Bring in Hardie or Mannagh for Cuthrie, blokes almost cooked

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Sounds like a you problem that you're enraged by the presence of a footballer. I'd suggest meditation or just growing up.

Premiership player, brother. I'll let Jimmy Bartel know you don't rate tackles in spite of his 16 he laid in the 2009 GF.

Puh-lease.

Comparing Jimmy to Brandan now.
What is he good at?

 

[Footy Smarts]

Bring in Hardie or Mannagh for Cuthrie, blokes almost cooked

One week ago he had a team high 7 clearances against Port. He deserves way more time coming back from a year out than 4 weeks when one of them was in tropical conditions where he played less than 40% game time.

The only possible solutions to our midfield woes this year are Holmes, Danger and Guthrie. It would be insane to drop him even if he's looked shit so far.

 

[Live in hope]

I think the biggest issue with jeka is not his contest work per se but defensive running. When his team doesnt have the ball theres times where he just jogs and doesnt cut off space but then when its in his area he can close at speed and use the ball well. To me he just lacks intensity which is annoying because everything else with him is afl standard.

Don’t like to pile-on a player, but very poor reaction by Jeka to a free kick paid against in Q3. Was only a moment in the game, but looked petulant and wouldn’t have helped chances of getting an AFL game with us.

 

[BORIS332]

I am talking about guthrie (who is clearly either injured or woefully out of form).

Based on what?

 

[BORIS332]

He will be done at the club at the end of the season i reckon, has shown nothing

Unfortunately, I agree. Foster's gone backwards this year. It's a shame as he seems a very good kid.

 

[BORIS332]

I strongly disagree on both fronts.

1. He was sub. Watching him every week only ends up enraging me. There is nothing he excels at but tackling. A metric for footballers without the footy.
2. In his free agency year and has reached a disposal average above 20 just once. Unlikely to do so this season. That is objectively by anyone's measure below AFL average and below AFL standard.

Comparing Brandan to Bews is very unfair on Jed. Jed has actually at times been very good in his position.

Given matches go for 120mins and the most any single player has the footy in their hands is about 2mins, I'd say what a player does for the 118mins they don't have the footy is fairly important.

Especially for Parfitt in his role as a defensive mid. He's ranked 11th in the AFL for tackles per game, he's also ranked 5th in the entire comp for pressure acts per game, and 2nd at the club for clearances.

Given his low TOG% comparative to those ranked higher than him, a case could be made for him being one of the best defensive mids in the comp. He's no Petracca but you can't have a Petracca without a Viney.

 

[Balardong]

Maybe. 23 possessions for the game is pretty good for a half-back flanker. He's 21 so mature enough even if lightly framed.

I can see him playing this year, but we'll see.

23 posessions but at 91.3% disposal efficiency - that’s elite

 

[cats_09]

VFL Round 9​

Geelong v GWS Giants
12.05pm AEST, Saturday May 25, 2024
GMHBA Stadium, Geelong

In: Brandan Parfitt

3

Brandan Parfitt

Age

26

Ht

180cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.6

4star

K

8.4

3star

HB

8.2

5star

M

2.1

2star

T

4.8

5star

CL

1.9

4star

D

15.3

4star

K

8.5

3star

HB

6.8

4star

M

1.5

2star

T

7.8

5star

CL

3.2

4star

D

14.8

4star

K

6.4

3star

HB

8.4

5star

M

2.8

3star

T

4.0

5star

CL

0.6

3star

, Mark O'Connor

42

Mark O'connor

Age

27

Ht

189cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

D/M

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.2

3star

K

8.1

3star

HB

5.1

4star

M

4.4

4star

T

2.3

4star

MG

174.8

3star

D

12.4

3star

K

8.9

4star

HB

3.5

2star

M

4.5

4star

T

1.6

3star

MG

199.8

3star

D

10.4

3star

K

4.8

2star

HB

5.6

4star

M

3.8

4star

T

2.0

4star

MG

67.4

1star

, Kye Annand, Lewis Antonac

Out: Jhye Clark (AFL), Hamish Sinnott, Tanner Lovell, Tanner Lewis

Backs	C. O'Sullivan (14)	D. Capiron (50)	O. Murdoch (31)
Half Backs	M. O'Connor (42)	E. Jeka (43)	L. Humphries (17)
Centreline	T. Clohesy (40)	M. Hardie (41)	M. Knevitt (10)
Half Forwards	P. Foster (19)	J. Pike (84)	J. Willis (20)
Forwards	P. Hughes (64)	S. Mannagh (7)	K. Bradtke (48)
Followers	A. Kuol mun (56)	B. Parfitt (3)	G. Stevens (15)
Interchange	D. Edmends (53)	M. Herbert (62)	T. White (63)
	L. Antonac (79)	K. Annand (59)
23rd Player	J. Pike (84)
Emergencies	T. Lewis (66)	T. Murray (61)	H. Sinnott (65)
T. Norton (67)	W. Sheahan (72)	T. Lovell (78)
	R. Hutchins (76)

 

[cats_09]

We look short down back in defence

 

[cats_09]

Annand with our first - looked like it was drifting left off the boot, but swung back nicely

 

[CHAWKTS]

Annand with our first - looked like it was drifting left off the boot, but swung back nicely

I have liked a number of his games over past year or so

 

[cats_09]

Mannagh with his first and we've got 3 on the board

 

[cats_09]

Holding the ball against Jeka leads to GWS's first shot on goal - only a

But we see the same thing in the series called holding the man for taking to Jeka to ground after the ball was knocked from his hands in the tackle - problem with the umpire being behind the play and not knowing Jeka Fiske have possession

 

[CHAWKTS]

Mannagh with his first and we've got 3 on the board

Looks like they are sticking with him as a forward and not trialling Mid in VFL. He does look like a very natural forward - but hard to get a spot in our AFL team from there!

 

[cats_09]

Hardie kicks truly and we've got 4 on the board

 

[CHAWKTS]

Knevitt on the wing…would like to see him play more in the guts in VFL? To get him around the action more?

 

[CHAWKTS]

Murdoch showing a little more this game?

 

[CHAWKTS]

“Humphries used his left foot before now driving long on his right”….

 

[MisterMarcus]

Hardie already 7 marks before the end of the 1st quarter.....

Is he 'dominating' or just getting lucky to be in the chain of things?

 

[CHAWKTS]

Harries work rate must be good and/or his read of the game as he gets lots of balls in space

 

[cats_09]

Looks like they are sticking with him as a forward and not trialling Mid in VFL. He does look like a very natural forward - but hard to get a spot in our AFL team from there!

Definitely playing as a pure forward, and even been our deepest forward at times

He hasn't started outside the forward 50 at any centre bounces - he did find himself on the opposition goal line & his defender teammates told him to rush it over, instead he tried kicking long, but straight to an opposition player... Maybe that's why we don't see him up the ground

I know it's only the first quarter, but it's more like what we see from Stengle than either Close or especially Miers who do get up the ground a bit now, when comparing our small forward group - maybe drafted somewhat as insurance for Stengle?

 

[CHAWKTS]

Hardie already 7 marks before the end of the 1st quarter.....

Is he 'dominating' or just getting lucky to be in the chain of things?

I posted same time as you. Top my eye (but on the screen not at the ground) he is always in the right spot. Good spots.

He should have just had another mark in space