The Roos broke their duck, the Dees continued their red hot start, and the Bombers won a close one. Read on for my Round 9 power rankings. 18. Hawthorn Hawks (down two) When you lose to North Melbourne you’re going to fall down these rankings. When you lose to North when you have a five-goal […]
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Four weeks ago, I published an update on the individual and team ratings accumulated by our band of merry men and women at Following Football.
With Round 9 just getting underway, it’s time to take another look at where things stand after eight rounds.
As I’ve said before, we use 23 sources of voting and evaluations of AFL players each week: several teams of the week, Brownlow-style voting, best-on-grounds, fantasy scoring, statistical leaders and AFLCA voting.
Drought broken! North Melbourne stages stunning comeback to notch up maiden win of 2021
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2021-05-15T17:49+10:00
North Melbourne has pulled off the most improbable win in recent AFL history, defeating Hawthorn by seven points after being down by 32 points in the second quarter and winless through the first eight rounds of 2021.
David Noble has stamped his credibility with not only his first win, but an incredible coaching performance to turn around Hawthorn’s high press and get his Roos slicing through the Hawks defence in the second half.
The lightbulb flicked after half time for North Melbourne, despite the Hawks getting the first of the third quarter, as they romped home with the next six goals and eight of the last eleven.
One positive and one negative from your club s Round 7 performance
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2021-05-03T16:48+10:00
It was a big round of footy and there were important storylines out of all nine games.
We have selected one positive and one negative from every club’s Round 7 performance.
See our thoughts below:
Positive: Enough entries
There isn’t much to get excited about after a 67-point loss but at least the Crows got enough ball forward.
They finished with 52 inside 50 entries which in comparison to GWS’ 58 was not a complete write-off.
A scoring efficiency of 46.2% is not ideal and a total score of 4.15.(39) is not what you wish for but Matthew Nicks can be somewhat pleased that they had some looks in attack.