The players who can make or break your club’s finals hopes (Herald-Sun)

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Champion Data rates Houli as the best Tiger to raise his game for finals. Conversely, Titch holds the largest dip in form for us from H/A season to a finals match.


AFL 2015: The players who can make or break your club’s finals hopes

Herald-Sun
September 9, 2015

THEY are the players who can make or break you, those who rise to the occasion in September and those who find the extra pressure suffocating.

Adam Goodes and Nick Dal Santo belong very firmly in the first category, a pair of old stagers who know exactly what is required when the real action begins.

They boast 46 finals between them (Goodes 26, Dal Santo 20) and their Champion Data rankings rise significantly despite the extra intensity.

It’s why they are referred to as the “Money Men”, players who get the job done under extreme heat.

And then there are those go the other way, men who are extremely good home-and-away players but who for whatever reason haven’t always brought that form to September.

Richmond’s Shane Edwards, a line-breaker who is something of a barometer for the Tigers, has only played two finals but would be acutely aware neither has been anywhere near his usual standards.

Champion Data rankings points: home-and-away / finals

Adelaide: Brodie Smith 74, 86 (+12)

Fremantle: Michael Johnson 83, 96 (+14)

Hawthorn: Bradley Hill 68, 81 (+13)

North Melbourne: Nick Dal Santo 104, 124 (+20)

Richmond: Bachar Houli 88, 110 (+22)

Sydney: Adam Goodes 84, 104 (+20)

Western Bulldogs: Dale Morris 66, 77 (+11)

West Coast: Jack Darling 77, 84 (+7)

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Adelaide: Sam Jacobs 101, 77 (-24)

Fremantle: Lachie Neale 86, 69 (-17)

Hawthorn: Matthew Suckling 81, 55 (-26)

North Melbourne: Lindsay Thomas 68, 53 (-15)

Richmond: Shane Edwards 79, 46 (-33)

Sydney: Sam Reid 64, 46 (-18)

Western Bulldogs: Will Minson 82, 48 (-34)

West Coast: Matt Priddis 110, 99 (-11)

* Richmond and Adelaide - Minimum 1 finals matches

* All Others - Minimum 4 finals matches

SOURCE: Champion Data

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