Prelim Live Scores

[brod]

Geelong 349 disposals
Collingwood 276 disposals

Who knows, this could be the start of a trend back to 2 kicks to one handball?

Geelong 377 disp (163 kicks-224 hb)

[valleys07]

Sidebottom goals

Coll 18.12
Geel 10.12

[brod]

Goal to Sidebottom

Collingwood 18.12 (120)
Geelong 10.12 (72)

[spell_check]

Well that's it, Collingwood exerted enough pressure, that they didn't need all the handballs that go with the modern game. That winning formula could be the turnaround to the trend.

[brod]

Tomma Hawk got a KICK

[valleys07]

Bartel goals for surely the last score

coll 18.12
geel 11.12

[brod]

Goal to Bartel

Collingwood 18.12 (120)
Geelong 11.12 (78)

[valleys07]

or not....stokes behind

final score:

Collingwood 18.12.120
Geelong 11.13.79

[brod]

Behind to Stokes


FINAL SCORE

Collingwood 18.12 (120)
Geelong 11.13 (79)

[Footy Chick]

Right, well I know who I'm going for next week then...

[valleys07]

Right, well I know who I'm going for next week then...

Not quite FC, you'll know at about 10pm tomorrow night

[brod]

Some interesting Stats

- Ablett 40 disposals (16 kicks, 24 handballs)
- Total disposals (Geelong 48, Collingwood 329)
- Kicks (Collingwood 228, Geelong 179)
- Handballs (Geelong 229, Collingwood 101)
- Marks(Collingwood 111, Geelong 82)
- Ave age (Geelong 27y7m, Collingwood 24y 1m)

[Hondo]

Well that's it, Collingwood exerted enough pressure, that they didn't need all the handballs that go with the modern game. That winning formula could be the turnaround to the trend.

These trends are usually unique to a particular group of players who are able to run a certain game plan

A few years later along comes another team with different types of players and their has to coach comes up with an alternative plan .... and so on

So this could be the start of a new trend or it's just the way Collingwood did it in 2010.

How ironic that Geelong's game plan is now being mentioned in the negative (even if you didn't mean to). 3 years ago they were revolutionizing the game apparently.

[spell_check]

You could see all over the AFL how the kick/handball ratio tightened up. West Coast actually started it in 2006, then Geelong perfected it the following season.
Using http://www.afl.has.it as the source, here is the total number of kicks and handball, along with the ratio every season since 1998:

1998 71033 39763 1.79
1999 71957 39449 1.82
2000 74404 41114 1.81
2001 71101 40257 1.77
2002 68001 40646 1.67
2003 68920 40000 1.72
2004 67872 40204 1.69
2005 70977 43599 1.63
2006 76610 48809 1.57
2007 74711 52955 1.41
2008 74019 57302 1.29
2009 72835 65524 1.11
2010 73111 61538 1.19

[MW]

any news on severity of Ball?

[Top End]

In Melbourne from Tuesday or Wednesday. PM if anyone can get a ticket. Accommodation is the easy bit but tickets hard. PM if any way of finding one. Thanks

[Q.]

It wasn't Geelong's game plan to go wide, they were forced wide and used more possessions bringing it up the wings rather than through the centre.

Pretty hard to enforce your game plan when you are under constant pressure through the corridor.

[Hondo]

Yeah, it's probably tough to draw grand conclusions based on one dirty night

Now way Bomber Thompson planned out that kick-handball ratio!

[MW]

Thought Abletts game was not that good...a heap of the possessions were little shitty no look handballs

[valleys07]

any news on severity of Ball?

just cramp apparently