30th June 2011 Category: Feature
Herald Sun writer Mark Robinson this week released his Round 14 All Australian Team. Earlier in the year we compared Robbo's Round 7 team with the Round 7 Player Rater team. So how do the teams compare after 14 rounds? The most obvious difference is that Robbo's team includes just one Geelong player, while the Player Rater team includes six.
B: Heath Shaw, Michael Jamison, Matthew Scarlett
HB: Heath Scotland, Sam Fisher, Brett Deledio
C: Scott Pendlebury, Sam Mitchell, Marc Murphy
HF: Andrew Walker, Travis Cloke, Nathan Fyfe
F: Jeff Garlett, Lance Franklin, Matthew Pavlich
Ruck: Dean Cox, Chris Judd, Gary Ablett
Interchange: Brent Moloney, Dale Thomas, Matthew Boyd, Daniel Wells (sub)
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B: Heath Shaw (7.19), Matthew Scarlett (7.23), Michael Jamison (7.01)
HB: Corey Enright (7.16), Harry Taylor (7.16), Nick Dal Santo (7.28)
C: Andrew Embley (7.32), Gary Ablett (7.73), Dale Thomas (7.33)
HF: Paul Chapman (7.26), Adam Goodes (7.24), Nathan Fyfe (7.31)
F: Josh Kennedy (7.16), Lance Franklin (7.71), Steve Johnson (7.34)
Ruck: Dean Cox (7.52) Sam Mitchell (7.79) Marc Murphy (7.75)
Interchange: Sam Fisher (7.04), Dane Swan (7.69), Matthew Pavlich (7.17), James Kelly (7.36) (sub)
Note: Underlined players only appear in one team.
Notable exclusions: Chris Judd (7.58) and Travis Cloke (7.09), ranked 7th and 43rd respectively.
Great midfielders are always going miss out, it's unavoidable. Judd misses due to a relatively poor month in June where he's was rated 7.0 or below in 3 out of 4 games.
Travis Cloke is currently ranked as the 9th best forward in the competition (5th among "key forwards"). Cloke's selection in Robbo's 22 may be the result of hitting form at the right time. Cloke has received a rating of over 8 in all of his last 3 games. In round 10 Cloke was ranked 130th overall, in round 14 he sits at 43.
To put into real stats, Cloke has averaged 5 goals and 8.6 marks a game in his last 3 games. In his 9 previous games this year he average 2.2 goals and 6.2 marks a game. Robbo might be a bit hot on Cloke right now.
Despite being ranked 10th overall, Cyril Rioli misses out on selection because he's only played 10 games. Scott Pendlebury (7.57) could have been selected on the wing, but I chose to select tradition wingman in Embley and Thomas. In most cases players have been selected in their preferred position. Nathan Fyfe may be the one exception.
The back line and forward line have been selected to include 3 key position players each. The bench includes one backman (Fisher), one midefielder (Swan), one forward (Pavlich) and one utility (Kelly).
Notable inclusions: Nick Dal Santo (7.28) and Steve Johnson (7.34), ranked 18th and 23rd respectively.
Players on teams with losing records typically get underrated, so Dal Santo's rating of 7.28 is probably a fair indication of his consistency this season. Dal Santo hasn't been rated below 6.25 all season.
Steve Johnson has failed to make it into both of Robbo's All Australian selections. Johnson gets into the Player Rater side ahead of Jeff Garlett (6.80) who is currently ranked 79th.
Johnson's Stats. Garlett's stats are in brackets.
Disp's: 23.2 (13.6), Marks: 6.7 (3.5), Goals: 1.7 (2.5), Tackles: 3.4 (4.2)
Players that dropped out: David Mundy, Scott Pendlebury, Brent Moloney, Cyril Rioli, Chris Judd, Jimmy Bartel, Aaron Sandilands and Robert Murphy.
Players that came in: Michael Jamison, Corey Enright, Gary Ablett, Marc Murphy, Josh Kennedy, Steve Johnson, Sam Fisher and Dale Thomas.
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