Numbers...you can't trust them. The Romans knew what numbers were up to and wouldn't have a bar of them. You can put your faith in a nice sturdy X but a 10, it's shifty. The only thing more iffy than a number is a statistic, they'll cut you open and rob you of your kidneys before you can say "aren't you supposed to drug me and put in a bath of ice first?". Unfortunately we're hooked on numbers though, we need them to work out how many kicks David Mundy had this week...and probably some other stuff too. The Dockerland Labs spent the summer pondering the problem and eventually, when the cricket was over, the fridge was empty and the clicker broke in everyone's pen, they came up with a solution - the stats cloud. A quick glance and you'll pretty much know everything about a game of football that there was to know, at least all the boring bits about it. The bigger the player's name, the more kicks, or marks, or tackles he had compared to his teammates.Â
It wasn’t a game that they’ll be talking about for long (well, actually, it’s Darwin; that’s all they’ll talk about) but Fremantle have sailed through with a massic 10 goal thrashing of Melbourne, barely raising a sweat in the process. The Dockers kept the Demons to just 4 goal for the match it a siren to siren flogging, with Nat Fyfe putting on a demonstration for the Northern Territory locals to make up for the withdrawal of the other drawcards Matthew Pavlich and Stephen Hill and Hayden Ballantyne dobbing a triple in game one hundred. Anthony Morabito was subbed on during the third quarter and made it through the rest of the match without anything falling off.
Have your say on how the Dockers players performed on the weekend by rating each player from zero to five or just pop in and have a look what everyone else had to say about the team.
To save people forking over their hard earned money to the AFL in exchange for a magazine that gets bigger every week, making it harder to get to the only part you actually want - the names of the players, we've introduced the Dockerland Budget.