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Christian Joly

Christian Joly

AFL analyst at Champion Data and regular contributor to ESPN's Footy Podcast, providing data-driven insights on the AFL and AFLW.

Sep 7, 2026

13:50
But, you know, earlier in the year, they were really good at sort of restricting scores from that source, Christian, but later, the last sort of, you know, month or so, they've actually slipped up a little bit.
13:58
Yeah, it's one of those ones where, probably a week late from my behalf, but you look at what went wrong in the final and you think, "Well, was there really any signs of this?" And there has been actually with that back half stuff.
14:07
So rounds one to 21, they conceded 29 points per game from back half, uh, from forward half chains, um, from the opposition's point of view, which was first, and it was, like, nine and a half scoring shots per game coming from that, which was also first.
14:20
Since round 22, it's 45 points per game, so it's almost three more goals per game from them getting stuck in their back half.
14:27
Um, and that's almost at 14 scores per game, so an extra four and a half actual scoring shots coming from it.
14:32
So it is something that's sort of lingering with them the last few weeks of-

10 MINS LATER

24:58
Mm
24:58
... with this intercept mark, and then we can get our structure back.

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