Darth Vader wrote: ↑Wed 22 Apr 2020 2:40pm
Questionable. Experienced team, finals-hardened was able to flat-track bully the new teams (GC & GWS) which led to inflated results, but not good enough anymore against the better teams.
Up to a point, I suppose. We only played against GWS once, by the way, and Gold Coast and GWS (who finished last) were flat-track- bullied by every other team in 2012.
Here's the other teams who finished ahead of us in 2012 ... we had the 5th best % that year - significantly better than Collingwood's who finished 4th and almost on par with WCE's %, who finished 5th.
Our "For" score was 4th best in 2012.
Have a look at Freo's "For" under RL, a team which finished 2 spots higher in 2012 --- we kicked about 400 points more over 22 games ... about 3 goals more per game.
The point I wanted to make is (and the thing is - I don't care about any of the past coaches) we can look at stats and garner whatever "facts" we want to support a bias, and ignore other facts that don't suit us.
In 2012 the case can be made that SW “proved to be” a better coach than RL - if I wanted to make that case.
That's why I always put a question mark at the end.
The point I'm trying to make is - there's no point comparing one coach to another coach - because you can't. It's never an even playing field - there's too many variables to tease out one coach's performance vs another.
Pos Team P W D L For Agn Stk Chg Pts %
1 Hawthorn 22 17 0 5 2679 1733 4W - 68 154.59
2 Adelaide 22 17 0 5 2428 1833 2W U1 68 132.46
3 Sydney 22 16 0 6 2290 1629 2L D1 64 140.58
4 Collingwood 22 16 0 6 2123 1823 1W U1 64 116.46
5 West Coast 22 15 0 7 2244 1807 1L D1 60 124.18
6 Geelong 22 15 0 7 2209 1886 3W - 60 117.13
7 Fremantle 22 14 0 8 1956 1691 3W - 56 115.67
8 North Melbourne 22 14 0 8 2359 2097 1W - 56 112.49
9 St Kilda 22 12 0 10 2347 1903 2W - 48 123.33