The Lucky Charms Lighting Up The Gabba
But if only to provide a little light relief from the heavy stuff, and provide a theory supported entirely by statistics, consider this …. perhaps it was as simple as the absence of Conor McKenna and Will Ashcroft.
Mark Twain is famous for the popularisation of a saying that identifies three types of misleading information …. lies, damned lies and statistics.
Widely regarded as the father of American literature through the late 1800s, it is now 114 years since his passing but AFL number-crunchers might like to take exception to his cruel characterisation of what has become a huge part of the modern game.
Certainly interested will be those who earlier in the season were looking to find a reason why the Lions lost their first three home games after going unbeaten at home last season.
While southern ‘experts’, caught in an ongoing battle just to be heard, have offered an assortment of complex theories Chris Fagan has insisted that simple conversion in front of goal was the biggest single factor. And his is the only viewpoint that really matters,.
But if only to provide a little light relief from the heavy stuff, and provide a theory supported entirely by statistics, consider this …. perhaps it was as simple as the absence of Conor McKenna and Will Ashcroft.
Why? Because McKenna and Ashcroft are unbeaten at the Gabba in Lions colors.
Heading into Sunday’s 4.10pm home clash with Adelaide, McKenna is 17-0 in his #26 Brisbane jumper, and Ashcroft, looking forward to his second comeback game in #9 after an 11-month injury lay-off, is 10-0.
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And when the Lions lost their first three Gabba games this year to Carlton, Collingwood and Geelong the club’s unofficial Gabba ‘lucky charms’ were missing.
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