All these comments about Govan and Hancock are good - but if Gov is injured and Hancock unavailable it's all perfectly understandable - and a big shame. And I heard through the grapevine Matt Joy has availability issues for a few upcoming home games - that may explain why he wasn't picked on Sunday. Certainly Matt is a candidate for Otago's POTY IMO. In that regard let's discuss that. As a wee starter I have tracked player performance using a standard fantasy football scoring system ( I can post it if you want). To keep it sensible only players who've played 450 minutes (ie half the time) so far get a rating. I've scored players by points per minute otherwise it goes a bit back asswards - the leaders are:
Coldicott: 6.7
Burgess: 5.2
Stevens: 5.1
Da Costa: 4.0
Ryder: 4.0
The trend is interesting because defenders do pretty badly (especially defenders who get CARDS - are you listening you little Scotsman?), whereas a clean nose and a few goals/assists puts you in good stead. But to be honest, we've been horrible in defence. Regan is a bit of an aberration - appearances, plus goals, plus cards plus a grizzly face - he's lucky no points are docked for being ugly. And well done Burgess - his quality shows in the stats - but he's very lucky kilometers travelled aren't a factor.