Does Corica have John Saffran’s number?
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Alright, let’s get the final few nails into this coffin already.
| Round | Minutes this week | Cumulative Minutes | 2022-23 Comparison | Minutes per game | To 828 | 828 - Regular Season | To 946 | 946 - Regular Season | 946 - 1 Final | 946 - 2 finals | 946 - 3 Finals | 946 - 4 Finals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before Season | NA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 828 | 31 | 946 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 32 | 31 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 828 | 32 | 946 | 36 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 32 |
| 24 | 45 | 334 | 586 | 14 | 494 | 165 | 612 | 204 | 153 | 122 | 102 | 87 |
| 25 | 0 | 334 | 676 | 13 | 494 | 247 | 612 | 306 | 204 | 153 | 122 | 102 |
Of note is the fact that if we thought last season’s yield was impressive for its meagreness (albeit mitigated by a fine end to the season), this season is plumbing a new low. We’ve had fewer than half as many on-field minutes (334) as the same time last season (676) although we will have the extra 27th game.
To reach 946 we still need 612 more. We have 2 games left + up to 4 finals for a total of 6 possible football matches, totalling 540.
Obviously that’s not enough, so we are now wholly in @Rowdy territory, with extra time becoming required. Unfortunately it will be required the maximum possible THREE times.
Target 1 (946 in regular season): FAILED
Target 2 (828 in regular season): FAILED
Target 3: 946 in 1 final): FAILED
Target 4 (946 in 2 finals): FAILED
Target 5: (946 in 3 finals): FAILED
Target 6: (946 in 4 finals): ALIVE with 4 finals, 3xET in those, and no more than 18 (non injury-time) minutes missed
It was nice to see him out there with a smile on his face celebrating with the team. I guess he’s pretty much accepted his fate and that he won’t be hitting last season’s numbers, and will be lucky to even get any time on the pitch again in sky blue.
This thread is just about finished, and will eke out its existence in pursuit of ever decreasing targets - who wants to play 828 again?
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I liked this video the club put up where Jack constructs his perfect player:
They’re all guys he played with over a decade ago, because of course that’s the last time he really played football.
Glue factory stat, we need that foreign spot used far better next season.
Hopefully never again.
I hope the club never falls for a player who presents as such a snakeoil salesman as Rodwell has.
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I think we can rest assured he’s not playing any more minutes unless we’re absolutely desperate. He’s not playing for us next year, Talay isn’t going to waste any experience that can be given to younger players on him. Plus think about the decrease in risk on having him play and then come up injured, wasting a substitution.
I saw him celebrating with the rest of the team with the Cove. Hope he pulled up ok
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He’s still got those corn rows. I blame the corn rows, for everything.
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Word on the street is he actually dislocated a rotator cuff with his fist pumping, and apparently has pulled a muscle in his jaw from grinning.
I never stopped 
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Poor Rory. Didn’t meet his collectivisation player minute quota for the Rodwell Harvest despite his meticulously kept records & yield estimates.
He’ll be answering to the Player Minute Manager in Siberia for his unfortunate failure.
Rodwell hopefully next season will be an Unperson.
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Rodwell is nailed on to go play for the new NZ team next year, start every single game and win a player of the year award.
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I’ll chortle heartedly if Corica does sign him.
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I don’t really care if he goes somewhere next year and wins the Ballon D’or, Puskas Award, FIFA world player of the year and a knighthood.
As long as he’s no longer leaching off our club.
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Well we know all targets are missed, but we had some minutes…
I think he has turned a corner injury wise. Suggest we go for 1 more season?
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I know it’s Perth the most shit team in the cosmos however I thought he played well.
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OK some more stats into your eyeballs
- 379 minutes played over 27 games (average 14 minutes per game) meaning we didn’t even get half way to 828 in the regular season
- We witnessed a single 90 minute outing (round 10), with the next longest being 69 minutes in R8. Last season we had 5 full games played in the regular season.
I won’t post the usual table because it gets funny with finals and extra time and I hate the fact that extra time is a fickle variable here.
What I’ll put on here is the raw number of minutes played this season and last now we have the full H+A numbers.
| Round | Minutes this week | Cumulative Minutes | 2022-23 minutes | 2022-23 Cumulative | This - Last compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before Season | NA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 45 | -45 |
| 8 | 69 | 69 | 0 | 45 | 24 |
| 9 | 67 | 136 | 0 | 45 | 91 |
| 10 | 90 | 226 | 77 | 122 | 104 |
| 11 | 45 | 271 | 90 | 212 | 59 |
| 12 | 0 | 271 | 0 | 212 | 59 |
| 13 | 0 | 271 | 0 | 212 | 59 |
| 14 | 0 | 271 | 0 | 212 | 59 |
| 15 | 0 | 271 | 0 | 212 | 59 |
| 16 | 0 | 271 | 0 | 212 | 59 |
| 17 | 0 | 271 | 0 | 212 | 59 |
| 18 | 0 | 271 | 0 | 212 | 59 |
| 19 | 0 | 271 | 21 | 233 | 38 |
| 20 | 0 | 271 | 11 | 244 | 27 |
| 21 | 18 | 289 | 72 | 316 | -27 |
| 22 | 0 | 289 | 90 | 406 | -117 |
| 23 | 0 | 289 | 90 | 496 | -207 |
| 24 | 45 | 334 | 90 | 586 | -252 |
| 25 | 0 | 334 | 90 | 676 | -342 |
| 26 | 0 | 334 | 0 | 676 | -342 |
| 27 | 45 | 379 | NO R27 | 676 | -297 |
So as unlikely as it may seem, this season we were ahead of last all the way up until round 20 and yet we have ended up nearly 300 minutes short despite the extra round.
The column of minutes played each week is a wonder. This season, there are twenty doughnuts, last season a mere sixteen.
Needless to say, all targets are FAILED
But wait, what’s this? (thump thump) Do I hear a teeny, tiny faint wee heartbeat? (thump thump)
YES! It’s our old friend the 828! It’s what we really wanted, right? Get more value out of him than Wests did. That is a mere 449 minutes away. And if we were to play all four finals (360 minutes) AND go the full 30 minutes extra time in the 3 games where it is possible, that adds up to 450 minutes! Not only can we overhaul his WSW total of 828 minutes in a season, but we even have the luxury of being able to take him off for a rest a minute early in one of those games.
There is Life! We are alive! Move away from your desk, get out into the open and breathe in that sweet air, feel the warm autumnal sunshine on your check and brows and eyelids, and savour the nourishing oxygen of the miracle of continued existence.
I can’t believe that we still have anything to play for this late given that cavalcade of zeroes in the minutes played column. Finally, next weekend, this thread will be taken out behind the chicken shed with the old shovel and quietly and humanely disposed of by Uffie selecting the 2 kids at the back, and the second minute ticking over.
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Inb4 first minute CB injury
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The real value he’s provided is by vacating the field to allow the emergence and development of our new backline
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