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.
Fremantle’s surge to the top of the ladder hit a bit of a snafu this week with a little known outfit by the name of Richmond causing one of the boil overs of the season with a 27 point win over the Dockers, adding another string of asterixes to the Anyone, anywhere, anytime mantra and a couple to the No Excuses Football Club trademark. Fremantle were bashed about at every turn, not just by the Richmond players, who appeared to be under the impression it was a grand final, but from the umpires, who must have been keen to spend next weekend in the country, as well as a cruel run of injuries that removed all but Chris Mayne from the team’s spine and the boot studder who must have dropped everyone’s boots in some sort of high quality synthetic oil during the week, explaining the inability to stand up or kick straight. Despite all that, the plucky Dockers managed to stay in the contest for most of the day through sheer will, getting within a handful of points in the last quarter before conceding it wasn’t their day and handing the game to the Tigers.
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.