Adam Treloar

[qldmagpie67]

[Mugwump]

It's so hard to know what to make of many stats - do we lose because Treloar is over-handballing, or is the whole team over-handballing because we are under pressure and not enough kicking targets are presenting in games where we get beaten ? Many of our lost games were those where we had injuries and AT was being tagged because there were only a few players to shut down, and being tagged makes it harder to get kicks. I just don't know how to interpret that stat.

That said, I thought Treloar played his best ever game for us by Friday. His kicking looked better (he actually nailed a running shot) and he frequently used his pace to create space and opportunities for us. And yes, that section around the boundary in the last two minutes was the kind of pure individual class than can make the difference between winning and losing. That is what an A-grader does.

[Pies4shaw]

Another update to the end of the GCS game - that's now 9 losses and 4 wins when Treloar has 18+ handballs (20 last night).

I will need to watch again to understand better why the handball numbers were so high on a night when the opposition applied virtually no pressure in the defensive midfield - but he did seem to get clear reasonably often, so perhaps there was a little more positive, "give and go" type handball. Anyway, whatever the reason, he had just under 10% of the team's total handballs but only a little over 7% of the team's total kicks.

Given that his goal-kicking efficiency was 16.7% (that is, 1.4 and one OOTF from 6 shots), he obviously needs to improve his disposal by foot dramatically. Still, this is what the off-season's for, so, hopefully, he'll come back next year handballing less, hitting more targets by foot and snaffling more goals.

[qldmagpie67]

[Beast]

Don't get me wrong, he's been a great pick up but his possessions tallies to influence ratio reminds me of Rockliff's.

[Mugwump]

His run and carry, give-and-go through the midfield (often right through the middle of the ground) last night was spectacular and one of the key differentiating factors, I thought. His kicking is impaired, I think, by the sheer energy he has alrady used up by the time he disposes of it, as he does a lot of multiple handballs as we transition through the middle of the ground.

This seems to be an emerging game plan which is actually different to most of the other sides : running the ball through the middle with fast handball, using Treloar (especially Treloar), Pendlebury, Sinclair, Maynard and Crisp and Williams. Time will tell whether it can work (and at the moment our execution of it is about 50/50). When it works it looks good and it can be very damaging, but when it comes unstuck it looks bad. Nevertheless, these last few weeks it has become a major theme. It is an innovation, I think, and if we can start to pull it off more often that not, it might become a weapon. Whether it'll make for prettier football I doubt.

[jackcass]

[Pies4shaw]

That's a good point, jc. Those figures used to be published in the Sun, along with the quarter by quarter stats but I don't subscribe. Is there any site that has those sorts of things (short of subscribing to Champion Data)?

[stui magpie]

[jackcass]