Shai Bolton's 4th quarter - The Best Bits | The Means Test with Adam Simpson! (21.09.26)
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What were Shai Bolton’s key stats in the decisive fourth quarter?
Best Bits for Tobin Brothers Funerals, a family-owned business since 1934. Shea Bolton's last quarter. Yeah.
Such a decisive figure, wasn't he? Yeah. Well, he had eight possessions, five contested, four scoring involvements and kicked the two goals.
How did Fremantle’s clearance strategy change to boost Bolton’s impact?
They don't change a lot. There's not a lot of boxcraft with Fremantle because they just do what they do really well. But I thought... he's an on-baller that pinch hits forward. Maybe he just played forward a tiny bit more, you know, and with the supply they had in that last quarter. I think once you recognise, and what Fremantle do do well, is that if they realise clearances aren't an issue, let's just play Bolton forward.
Why did the centre‑bounce clearances increase by seven in the final term?
If clearances are an issue, let's get him on ball for a couple of centre bounces. So, clearances weren't an issue. In the end, you know, they won the centre, the clearances by plus seven in the last quarter. They won contested possessions by 23 in the last quarter. So, A lot of credits to Sydney and how they performed for six and a half quarters, but Fremantle,
you
know, it was sort of coming a little bit.
What would the margin have looked like if Charlie Curnow had added a second goal?
Not that I did... I didn't really see it until Young kicked that goal.
Is that how you felt? Yes. Yeah. And the unanswerable would be if Charlie Curnow had kicked that second goal and made it 33 points.
How did Sydney’s ‘running out of gas’ affect the overall outcome of the game?
What was the margin that would have really put the frighteners up? But the last quarter was always possible because Sydney played with such a mania. They were out of gas.
Yeah.
But that's one of the most easy games to diagnose. One team ran completely out of gas because of the way that they had applied themselves, which was the only way to win given the undermanned nature of the team.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What were Shai Bolton’s key stats in the decisive fourth quarter?
0:00–0:13
2
How did Fremantle’s clearance strategy change to boost Bolton’s impact?
0:13–0:34
3
Why did the centre‑bounce clearances increase by seven in the final term?
0:34–0:54
4
What would the margin have looked like if Charlie Curnow had added a second goal?
0:54–1:07
5
How did Sydney’s ‘running out of gas’ affect the overall outcome of the game?
1:07–1:30
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