500 reasons the Tigers are on the right track

[one-eyed]

The 500 Target
AFL Record - Round 15

"Hardwick wants to give players aged 22 and under 500 games of experience this season and next. It will mean 1000 hours of game experience before the expectations become too high"


Games played after round 14 by players younger than 22 at the start of the season:

RICHMOND           144
North Melbourne    126
Melbourne             125
West Coast           117
Carlton                 116
Essendon              105
Brisbane               105
Adelaide                 96
Fremantle               93
Hawthorn                76
Collingwood            67
Port Adelaide          66
Sydney                   64
Geelong                 56
Western Bulldogs    56
St Kilda                 40


The Benchmarks:

Hawthorn in 2005   180
Geelong in 2001     166

[Judge Roughneck]

Port in trouble

[Penelope]

those benchmark figures for Geelong and Hawthorn - are they for the year or after 14 rounds?

[the_boy_jake]

those benchmark figures for Geelong and Hawthorn - are they for the year or after 14 rounds?

Looking at Hawthorn it must be at season's end as they had:

Crawford, Everitt, Smith, Clarke, Croad, Vandenburg, Mitchell, Osborne, Dixon, Hay, Lekkas play a lot of footy and either be over 22 or 22 at the beginning of the season.