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Sainter_Dad wrote: ↑Sat 27 Jun 2020 9:39pm
15.3 - The only stat that matters - the one that won us the game!
The other major stats tell a similar tale of the tape!
Category
St Kilda
v
Richmond
Disposals
315
313
Contested
118
118
Uncontested
186
202
Efficiency
70.5
70.6
Free Kicks
15
15
Hit Outs
31
26
Clearance
33
29
Turnovers
56
59
Tackles
51
51
Inside 50s
38
39
Goals
15
10
Points
3
7
Scoring Shots
18
17
How long has it been since accuracy in front of the goals WON St Kilda a game???
14.4 against Dogs at Dromana Drive In was pretty special too.
I was at a game at the G 30 years ago when we actually kicked 18.2 against 'Dons and won by a goal. And I think we kicked a similar scoreline 25 years ago against Cats at the G and won by a goal as well, but you've got to go a long way back.
Ratts said publicly that we were bottom 2 in league for accuracy outside 50 or on a sharp angle?
Can't recall the spots exactly.
Then he said we wanted to get the ball close and in front to maximise chances.
It helps if ball is delivered well, too, and our forwards have their tactics sorted.
One commentator was saying our fwds seemed to have body-on-body against Tiges not letting them double team any one fwd, or sonething.
It was very impressive.
I wonder if Roughy has helped a lot, our previous fwd coaches didn't seem to have the guys on song.
We keep doing this, we gonna be a force
A real Sainter will pledge allegiance to the ❤ and despise the Pies, the Blues, and the Injectors.
Remember one of the 10 Commandments : Thou shalt have no other team before thee
samuraisaint wrote: ↑Sat 27 Jun 2020 10:14pm
14.4 against Dogs at Dromana Drive In was pretty special too.
I was at a game at the G 30 years ago when we actually kicked 18.2 against 'Dons and won by a goal. And I think we kicked a similar scoreline 25 years ago against Cats at the G and won by a goal as well, but you've got to go a long way back.
Round 18 1994 - 18.2 v Essendon's 15.10
Round 13 1956 - 13.2 v Footscrays 11.13
Both of these games we had far less shots at goal so truly we won by accurate kicking
Round 2 2010 23.5 v North Melbourne 6.3 we won but had 3 times as many scoring shots.
Round 16 1981 16.4 v South Melbourne 22.19 - Accurate but smashed
14.4 is equal 11th in our history
15.3 is our 3rd most accurate in history!
And it felt good being against Richmond on Maddies Match!
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― Aristophanes
If you have a Bee in your Bonnet - I can assist you with that - but it WILL involve some smacking upside the head!
samuraisaint wrote: ↑Sat 27 Jun 2020 10:14pm
14.4 against Dogs at Dromana Drive In was pretty special too.
I was at a game at the G 30 years ago when we actually kicked 18.2 against 'Dons and won by a goal. And I think we kicked a similar scoreline 25 years ago against Cats at the G and won by a goal as well, but you've got to go a long way back.
Round 18 1994 - 18.2 v Essendon's 15.10
Round 13 1956 - 13.2 v Footscrays 11.13
Both of these games we had far less shots at goal so truly we won by accurate kicking
Round 2 2010 23.5 v North Melbourne 6.3 we won but had 3 times as many scoring shots.
Round 16 1981 16.4 v South Melbourne 22.19 - Accurate but smashed
14.4 is equal 11th in our history
15.3 is our 3rd most accurate in history!
And it felt good being against Richmond on Maddies Match!
I remember the Essendon match very well. Big crowd at the G. We just kept holding them off and keeping them at arms length.
The North game was great - 104 point victors - we nearly kicked our biggest ever score against them that night too, but Schneids was dragged down in a tackle as he was running into goal.
I was also at the Lake Oval against South in 1981 as a kid with my cousins. We kicked nine goals STRAIGHT in the first quarter, had the game won as South barely got a look in and then inexplicably slowed down, and eventually stopped. Then the Swans ran away with it and kicked an absolute cricket score against us. Bad times.
samuraisaint wrote: ↑Sat 27 Jun 2020 10:14pm
14.4 against Dogs at Dromana Drive In was pretty special too.
I was at a game at the G 30 years ago when we actually kicked 18.2 against 'Dons and won by a goal. And I think we kicked a similar scoreline 25 years ago against Cats at the G and won by a goal as well, but you've got to go a long way back.
Round 18 1994 - 18.2 v Essendon's 15.10
Round 13 1956 - 13.2 v Footscrays 11.13
Both of these games we had far less shots at goal so truly we won by accurate kicking
Round 2 2010 23.5 v North Melbourne 6.3 we won but had 3 times as many scoring shots.
Round 16 1981 16.4 v South Melbourne 22.19 - Accurate but smashed
14.4 is equal 11th in our history
15.3 is our 3rd most accurate in history!
And it felt good being against Richmond on Maddies Match!
I remember the Essendon match very well. Big crowd at the G. We just kept holding them off and keeping them at arms length.
The North game was great - 104 point victors - we nearly kicked our biggest ever score against them that night too, but Schneids was dragged down in a tackle as he was running into goal.
I was also at the Lake Oval against South in 1981 as a kid with my cousins. We kicked nine goals STRAIGHT in the first quarter, had the game won as South barely got a look in and then inexplicably slowed down, and eventually stopped. Then the Swans ran away with it and kicked an absolute cricket score against us. Bad times.
Craig O'Brien...wasn't he a star? He was the shaker-maker mold for MIlney - plus MIlney added the Milney magic which was maginificent and yet to be understood by the non-Sainter universe. Stewie Loewe 12 marks - business as usual.
Fantastic.
Can you believe it? Richmond!!! I am rarely in Australia nowadays, but on a visit, maybe late Watters/early Richo, I went to Marvelous and saw us play Richmond. We led, and we lost in the most cruel fashion. i came as a flakey fly-in, and my sisters' husband had some serious fans out there, who were hurting. I couldn't ..rather, they wouldn't talk , such was the hurt.
Scoring goals because more shots are from closer in and from better angles but more importantly a higher percentage from set shots.
Set shots because not bombing it into the goal square to have it come to ground and hopefully someone has a snap shot.
"Bombers" replaced by "hit a target recruits".
"Bombers" managers already talking to Essendon.
Plus more accurate kicking from the "recruits" who have replaced "butchers".
Collingwood killed us with their elite kicking and handball.
Endeavour keeps you in the contest, accurate skills win you the contest.
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
When I was a young child, I knew that I knew so much about so much.
Now that I am old and know so much more, I know that I know so much about so little, and so little about so much.
Goose is king wrote: ↑Sat 27 Jun 2020 11:44pm
2 of the 3 behinds hit the post
Time to move the goal posts.
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
When I was a young child, I knew that I knew so much about so much.
Now that I am old and know so much more, I know that I know so much about so little, and so little about so much.
I am getting old but the 15.4 we kicked in the rain and mud in the 1966 Preliminary Final was a pretty special performance. Ian Stewart had 18 kicks by half time.
We had one more scoring shot and were far less accurate the next week against Collingwood but still had a happy ending.
Yes, accuracy matters. But how much you are prepared to bleed is more important.
samuraisaint wrote: ↑Sat 27 Jun 2020 10:14pm
14.4 against Dogs at Dromana Drive In was pretty special too.
I was at a game at the G 30 years ago when we actually kicked 18.2 against 'Dons and won by a goal. And I think we kicked a similar scoreline 25 years ago against Cats at the G and won by a goal as well, but you've got to go a long way back.
Round 18 1994 - 18.2 v Essendon's 15.10
Round 13 1956 - 13.2 v Footscrays 11.13
Both of these games we had far less shots at goal so truly we won by accurate kicking
Round 2 2010 23.5 v North Melbourne 6.3 we won but had 3 times as many scoring shots.
Round 16 1981 16.4 v South Melbourne 22.19 - Accurate but smashed
14.4 is equal 11th in our history
15.3 is our 3rd most accurate in history!
And it felt good being against Richmond on Maddies Match!
I remember the Essendon match very well. Big crowd at the G. We just kept holding them off and keeping them at arms length.
The North game was great - 104 point victors - we nearly kicked our biggest ever score against them that night too, but Schneids was dragged down in a tackle as he was running into goal.
I was also at the Lake Oval against South in 1981 as a kid with my cousins. We kicked nine goals STRAIGHT in the first quarter, had the game won as South barely got a look in and then inexplicably slowed down, and eventually stopped. Then the Swans ran away with it and kicked an absolute cricket score against us. Bad times.
That Lake Oval swamp has been turned into an athletics venue.
The bowling club that blocked one wing has been drowned in the swamp.
Good riddance.
I absolutely hated that ground.
It was near impossible to find space on a wing.
You had to stand at either end and could not see.
Same problem at the Western Oval and the Glenferrie sardine can.
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
When I was a young child, I knew that I knew so much about so much.
Now that I am old and know so much more, I know that I know so much about so little, and so little about so much.
Is it mostly to do with getting into better positions to take the shots? That is, the build-up rather than the straight shooting? I hope so, because that's sustainable.
and despise the Pies, the Blues, and the Injectors.
