As the AFL’s coaches bury themselves in stats sheets to interpret away early-season results,it might pay to gaze far closer at the impact of momentumIt’s taken 158 long winters, but the AFL world has almost finished figuring out that football is not a ball sport but a game of momentum, and involving a ball. In the first three rounds of the recent season,scarcely a post-match interview has gone by without the player or coach referencing the momentum of the contest – how they rode it to victory, or how it did them in.
The “m” term has crept into the footy lexicon over the past three years. Recently it’s been every special comments man’s go-to observation. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com