Rate a Tiger's year - David Astbury?

[one-eyed]

Next up is Astbury.

Dave played 22 games in 2019 including all three finals and the premiership to take his career tally to 129. With Rance going down with an ACL in round 1, Astbury had to take over as our senior and main big key defender (alongside Grimes). He topped off his season with a top 10 finish of our B&F.

Season Highlights
● 20 disps (19 kicks 1 hballs) and 12 marks in Rd 9 36-pt win over Hawthorn at the MCG (19 May 2019)
● 20 disps (12 kicks 8 hballs) and 9 marks in Rd 15 33-pt win over St Kilda at Docklands (30 Jun 2019)
● 17 disps (14 kicks 3 hballs) and 11 marks in Rd 8 25-pt win over Fremantle at Optus Stadium (30 Jun 2019)

2019 Statistical Rankings
● Ranked 17th in Time On Ground % Per Game     
● Ranked 8th in Effective Disposals % Per Game

Career stats to date
          Games  Kicks   Hballs   Disposals  Marks  Tackles  G.B     In50   R50 
2010:    17       6.5       4.9       11.4       3.4       1.7       5.5      0.8     0.8
2011:      5       2.4       2.8         5.2       0.6       1.2       0.0      0.2     1.2   
2012:      2       3.0       3.0         6.0       2.5       2.0       2.0      0.5     0.0
2013:      5       6.0       4.4       10.4       3.6       0.4       0.0      0.2     2.4
2014:      8       8.9       4.6       13.5       5.3       1.9       0.0      0.0     2.6
2015:      4       5.0       5.5       10.5       3.5       2.0       1.0      1.0     1.0
2016:    19       8.2       5.3       13.5       6.7       1.3       0.1      0.6     2.4
2017:    25       8.8       6.2       15.0       6.4       1.4       0.0      0.7     2.9
2018:    22       8.4       6.3       14.6       5.7       1.0       0.0      1.1     3.1
2019:    22       9.5       4.1       13.6       6.0       0.5       1.0      0.5     3.5

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How did we all rate Astbury's year?

[YellowandBlackBlood]

I thought he was excellent. He is rarely beaten by opponents. Takes on the opposition gorillas too. Dependable. What I like most is he plays within his abilities as he rarely tries to do too much and thus makes very few mistakes. Another  solid mark down back. All up a 9 as I couldn’t really fault him only losing a mark because he probably doesn’t give much run out of the backline, although again, that probably isn’t his job.

[mat073]

I thought he struggled for a bit once Rance went down but adjusted well and finished strong.

[georgies31]

Alot talk about our side and our back 6
,but this bloke is our rock elevated himself to another level this year.

[Tiger Khosh]

I thought he struggled for a bit once Rance went down but adjusted well and finished strong.

^This. Whole defence struggled but I thought Dave did the most. But as you said regrouped and was a machine in the back half of the war and finals!

[WilliamPowell]

I thought he struggled for a bit once Rance went down but adjusted well and finished strong.

Sums it up well 

Gave him a 7

[Go Richo 12]

Astbury is up there with with our most under rated players. We look at output,
 stats wise,  but what can’t  be measured is how good our more highly rated defenders play because he is locking down a key forward. For that reason, i gave him an 8.

[Andyy]

I thought he struggled for a bit once Rance went down but adjusted well and finished strong.

Also agree 100%.

Astbury is a B grade player most days of the week. I reckon he felt the heat when Tross went down but managed to relax and keep doing his role once he realised Grimes was the one to take the biggest step forward and fill those shoes instead of him.

8/10 from me. 3-4 years ago I was ready to delist him and felt it cruel they'd given him no. 12 instead of retire it. Humble pie for me and glad for it.

[lamington]

I gave him an 8. Between him and grimes vlastuin which I would say were our most important defenders this year he took that little bit longer to regroup compared to the other 2 but that is only the small blemish he had in his year. Once settled he was super dependable as always and made amends for that flu game he had last year