ANYTHING to do with statistical analysis on the Sandringham Dragons this season \u2013 or most seasons to this point of the year \u2013 is largely irrelevant. The majority of the Dragons list plays school football, making at times as many as 17 changes when it starts or stops, and up to nine or 10 changes each week depending on which school has the bye, and other injuries or omissions. To sit third after 14 rounds ahead of getting their top-end talent back is remarkable. After storming to three wins with a full-strength side, the Dragons dropped the next few games as they tinkered with their line-up. But since then, their form has been as good as any side in the competition, and now they face two genuine premiership contenders in the final two rounds. The Round 16 showdown between the Dragons and Dandenong Stingrays could well be a Grand Final preview, in what will be a fantastic spectacle to watch.<\/p>\n
Wins:<\/strong>\u00a010 R15:<\/strong>\u00a0vs. Oakleigh Chargers \u2013 Avalon Airport Oval National Combine Invitations:<\/strong>\u00a0[7] Joel Crocker, Angus Hanrahan, Will Kennedy, Ben King, Max King, Bailey Smith, Liam Stocker<\/p>\n State Combine Invitations:<\/strong>\u00a0[4] Harry Houlahan, James Rendell, Harry Reynolds, Alastair Richards<\/p>\n Sandringham had the second most invitees of any side to the National Combine, receiving an impressive seven invitations. Given two of them have been injured practically the entire year \u2013\u00a0Joel Crocker<\/strong>\u00a0(since last year\u2019s finals) and\u00a0Max King<\/strong>\u00a0(first round of school football) \u2013 it shows the quality that could have been in this finals series coming up. With\u00a0Ben King<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Bailey Smith<\/strong>\u00a0linking up, and the likes of\u00a0Liam Stocker<\/strong>\u00a0on the inside and\u00a0Angus Hanrahan<\/strong>\u00a0on the outside, the Dragons pose a huge threat to any side hoping to claim the flag this year.\u00a0Will Kennedy<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0James Rendell<\/strong>\u00a0are strong bookends, while\u00a0Harry Houlahan<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Alastair Richards<\/strong>\u00a0have proven to be handy this season. We will get a much better idea of where the Dragons sit in the next two weeks with wholesale changes returning to the line-up for Sunday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n Disposals:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 \u2013 Liam Stocker \u2013 216 (43rd overall) Marks:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 \u2013 Corey Watts \u2013 55 (21st overall) Contested Possessions:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 \u2013 Liam Stocker \u2013 115 (18th overall) Tackles:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 \u2013 Kai Owens \u2013 51 (eq. 31st overall) Hitouts:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 \u2013 Andrew Courtney \u2013 183 (6th overall) Clearances:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 \u2013 Liam Stocker \u2013 52 (eq. 12th overall) Inside 50s:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 \u2013 Liam Stocker \u2013 53 (7th overall) Rebounds:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 \u2013 Corey Watts \u2013 36 (eq. 15th overall) Goals:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 \u2013 James Rendell \u2013 12 (eq. 25th overall) ANYTHING to do with statistical analysis on the Sandringham Dragons this season \u2013 or most seasons to this point of the year \u2013 is largely irrelevant. The majority of the Dragons list plays school football, making at times as many as 17 changes when it starts or stops, and up to nine or 10 changes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":32622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7949,8,16,137],"tags":[2786,2465,63,3789,177,151,258,62,2258],"class_list":["post-38901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nab-league","category-news","category-tac-cup","category-womens","tag-alastair-richards","tag-bailey-smith","tag-ben-king","tag-harry-houlahan","tag-james-rendell","tag-joel-crocker","tag-liam-stocker","tag-max-king","tag-will-kennedy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88084,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38901\/revisions\/88084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Losses:<\/strong>\u00a04
Draws:<\/strong>\u00a00
Position:<\/strong>\u00a03rd
Points For:<\/strong>\u00a0874 (8th)
Points Against:<\/strong>\u00a0976 (8th)
Percentage:<\/strong>\u00a090
Points:<\/strong>\u00a040<\/p>\nFixtures:<\/strong><\/h5>\n
R16:<\/strong>\u00a0vs. Dandenong Stingrays \u2013 Trevor Barker Beach Oval<\/p>\nTop Fives:<\/strong><\/h5>\n
2 \u2013 Nicholas Stamatis \u2013 189
3 \u2013 Ryan Byrnes \u2013 176
4 \u2013 Corey Watts \u2013 168
5 \u2013 Kai Owens \u2013 162<\/p>\n
2 \u2013 Nicholas Stamatis \u2013 35
2 \u2013 James Rendell \u2013 35
4 \u2013 Kai Owens \u2013 33
5 \u2013 Liam Stocker \u2013 32
5 \u2013 Will Kennedy \u2013 32<\/p>\n
2 \u2013 Ryan Byrnes \u2013 95
3 \u2013 Kai Owens \u2013 68
4 \u2013 James Rendell \u2013 67
5 \u2013 Nicholas Stamatis \u2013 58<\/p>\n
2 \u2013 Dawit McNeish \u2013 50
3 \u2013 Liam Stocker \u2013 49
4 \u2013 Ryan Byrnes \u2013 44
5 \u2013 James Rendell \u2013 41<\/p>\n
2 \u2013 James Rendell \u2013 104
3 \u2013 Joe Griffiths \u2013 99
4 \u2013 Ethan Casey \u2013 69
5 \u2013 Fischer McAsey \u2013 28<\/p>\n
2 \u2013 Ryan Byrnes \u2013 33
3 \u2013 Kai Owens \u2013 30
4 \u2013 Bailey Smith \u2013 23
5 \u2013 Dawit McNeish \u2013 22<\/p>\n
2 \u2013 Alastair Richards \u2013 38
3 \u2013 James Rendell \u2013 30
3 \u2013 Nicholas Stamatis \u2013 30
5 \u2013 Ryan Byrnes \u2013 27<\/p>\n
2 \u2013 Liam Stocker \u2013 21
2 \u2013 Jackson Voss \u2013 21
4 \u2013 Nicholas Stamatis \u2013 19
4 \u2013 Miles Bergman \u2013 19<\/p>\n
2 \u2013 Nicholas Stamatis \u2013 8
2 \u2013 Harry Bede \u2013 8
2 \u2013 Max King \u2013 8
5 \u2013 Jack Denborough \u2013 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"