Pure Footy: David King and Daniel Hoyne reveal the stat cruelling Carlton, St Kilda
Turning the ball over is bad, but what Carlton and St Kilda are doing next threatens to destroy their seasons. Watch Pure Footy here.
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It’s the stat that is blinking red in the Carlton and St Kilda coaches boxes.
This season 40 per cent of scores across the competition have come from midfield turnovers — and no teams pay more for gifting the ball back to their opposition than the Blues and Saints.
Both teams concede more than seven goals a game from turnovers between the forward and defensive arcs.
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“To compete and be up there with the best teams in the competition you cannot be leaking scores in this part of the ground,” Champion Data analyst Daniel Hoyne said on this week’s episode of Pure Footy, the serious footy analysis show exclusive every week to heraldsun.com.au.
The Western Bulldogs lead the AFL after six rounds in defending midfield turnovers, conceding just 112 points from this source. In comparison, Carlton has given up 272 points and St Kilda 268 — the equivalent of an extra 4.4 goals per game.
“The fact that (the Blues) are giving up the most points in the competition in this part of the game is the sheer reason alone why they are sitting 2-4 on the ladder,” Hoyne said.
“On the weekend they gave up 55 points to Brisbane in this area, that’s 10 points more than their average and significantly worse than the AFL average.
“St Kilda are giving up just under 45 points per game in this area of the ground — only Carlton have given up more — and that’s another sheer reason why they are sitting with a 2-4 win-loss record.
“You look at St Kilda on the weekend against Port Adelaide, they both had the same opportunities to score in this area of the ground — St Kilda scored nine points, Port Adelaide scored 62.
“That’s the game smack bang right there.
“If you don’t fix up that issue, if you’re Carlton and St Kilda, you’re not playing finals this year.”
Hoyne and North Melbourne champion David King also named Collingwood’s biggest kicking culprits, revealed how Ken Hinkley has flipped Port Adelaide’s game style on its head, what is making games longer this season and more.
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