Deck of Dream Team 2010: Adam Cooney
Name: Adam Cooney
Club: Western Bulldogs
Position: Midfielder
2009 Average/Games: 90.3 / 20
Predicted 2010 Average: 103
Deck of DT Rating: King of Diamonds (because they’re ranga red)
Why should I pick him?
This bloodnut will have his best Dream Team year in 2010 – mark my words! His best year was his Brownlow year in ‘08 when he averages 92.4… he can certainly take that to another level as the second half of 2009 was friggen sensational! Listen to these numbers… from Round 10 (after he got back from a couple of weeks off with an injury and a limited pre-season), he smashed out 8 hundreds from a possible 13. That’s pretty awesome – at an average of smack bang on 100. But let’s take out the 61 he had against St. Kilda when he was tagged by Jones (he still had 23 touches… just a shame 15 of them were handballs)…. he averaged 103.5! That’s very nice! He can definitely crack the 100 point average for the year, therefore a massive bargain! The Bulldogs will continue to improve, so that’s a good thing for any Doggie you want to jump on. They have a pretty awesome midfield – which won’t change much from this year – so the tag could go to anyone (Cross, Boyd, etc).
Why shouldn’t I pick him?
The worry is that the ginger ninja had some knee surgery when the ‘09 season was done and dusted. This has meant the latest training report said he “is running after knee surgery” – doesn’t fill me with confidence. Hopefully this will increase as the pre-season goes on and will be ready to rock and roll come NAB Cup time. I guess the other worry is if he does cop a tag. How does he deal with it? Like I said before, he only scored 61 against the Saints when Clinton Jones shut him down. Hopefully this doesn’t happen too often (however, history tells us he is still competent when he gets extra attention).
Final thoughts.
The Coon-Dawg is locked and loaded for the Warne Dawgs. Priced at an average of 90 – you can’t go wrong! He will explode in 2010… and I see him as a bargain after his slow start to 2009. Plenty of upside in this Fanta pants. He’s 24 years of age. Tasty, tasty! Thank me later!
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I must admit, I wasn’t thinking of Cooney this early on but after an arse kissing spiel like that, it makes him a little hard to resist. Any ideas what his start price might be?
Oh, and these write ups are awesome by the way. Makes my evenings (Finland time) more exciting!
He’s cheap, durable and should improve but my only concern is his average points per disposal. He has a PPD of 3.4 i think and that is probably why we dont see lots of 130+ scores. At 3.4 he needs about 30 disposals in a game just to get to the 100 mark. Having said that, he still finds a way to rack up so many diposals each game so should be a lock for my team next year.
Thats an interesting find with the PPD, i had a look at it awhile ago but couldnt be stuffed checking through alot of the players. I might have a look now and see which players have some of the higher points per disposal, it could be useful to have players like this cause then they wont usually have shocking scores compared to other players.
A perfect example of this is Gazza Ablett as Calvin pointed out in an episode of DT Talk last year. When he has less than 20 possessions… he struggles to put a decent score together.
All the players that i’m interested in for next year I calculate their durability over the past three years and their PPD. I found that Andrew Raines has a PPD of 3.1. Thats shocking. It means he can get 25 disposals and only score 80 DT points. Likewise, with the voldt (PPD = 6.16) he needs only 16d to reach the ton.
Goal kickers will always have a higher PPD than dudes that get in and get it.
Voldt gets 12pts per kick sometimes
Not a fan of carrot-top-cooney. But after reading that I may have to lose my fanta-pants-free team moto and grab him if he is cheap enough.
He has to be real cheap tho, Coz I want my midfield prems to be busting out 120+ regularly.
you have high expectations mate. even team director (who won dt) didnt finsih with ablett, swan, montagna, gibbs, hayes and bartel
i think ill stick with my gut feeling and pass on him, but maybe my gut feeling will change by round 1
everyone has a nicer average when you take out their bad games
He plays like Judd so not a dt player
Tough critics in here!
I’ll back him in with the Dawg – Go rednut
good read warnie, ill take the fanta pants in the destROY mids.
Sooooo Bored at work. No one is here, It’s Christmas ffs.
Need more DT stuff to read … stats, figures, injury updates anything.
Still waaayy too long until DT starts.
will i feel the pain man!
I feel your pain too. I’m on the gas after being on the gas for the last 2 nights straight… ahh the life of a teacher… he he
Long live the summer holidays
ill be a qualified teach in 12 months…….one last year of uni then the partying begins!
I had thought about Coon-dog before this, but now that Ive read about what he averaged at the end of this year I reckon he is a lock for what he will be priced at. Only concern for me is that surgery he had
Bartel, Bryce Gibbs, Pendlebury…. now who to take out for the coon-dog?
Does any one know where you can find these PPD stats.
Just find their total DT score for the year and divide by their total possessions for the year. It wont be completely accurate by will give a good indication of PPD.
Was just looking on the net and I came across the top 50 DT scores of 2009, thought it was an interesting read:
Joel Selwood – R17 v Hawthorn 185
Ryan O’Keefe – R16 v Carlton 173
Leigh Montagna – R15 v West Coast 166
Tyson Edwards – R11 v Essendon 166
Sam Fisher – QF v Collingwood 162
Justin Sherman – R8 v Adelaide 162
Paul Chapman – R6 v Melbourne 161
Farren Ray – R16 v Adelaide 160
Colin Sylvia – R9 v Hawthorn 159
Adam Goodes – R19 v Richmond 158
Dane Swan – R13 v Fremantle 158
Dane Swan – R9 v West Coast 158
Alan Didak – R13 v Fremantle 156
Gary Ablett jnr – R11 v West Coast 155
Joel Bowden – R4 v Melbourne 155
Gary Ablett jnr – R4 v Adelaide 155
Luke Power – R12 v Hawthorn 154
Dane Swan – R10 v Port Adelaide 154
David Wirrpanda – R4 v Western Bulldogs 153
Andrew Swallow – R21 v St Kilda 152
Paul Chapman – R3 v Collingwood 152
Bryce Gibbs – R2 v Brisbane Lions 152
Paul Chapman – R14 v St Kilda 151
Leon Davis – R5 v Essendon 150
Leigh Harding – R1 v Melbourne 150
Ryan Hargrave – R22 v Collingwood 149
Ryan O’Keefe – R12 v Collingwood 149
Leon Davis – R9 v West Coast 149
Steve Johnson – R7 v Sydney 149
Andrew Embley – R19 v Western Bulldogs 148
Gary Ablett jnr – R13 v Port Adelaide 148
Jimmy Bartel – PF v Collingwood 147
Sam Mitchell – R13 v West Coast 147
Scott Pendlebury – R11 v Melbourne 147
Lenny Hayes – R8 v Essendon 147
Brent Stanton – R7 v Hawthorn 147
Jobe Watson – R20 v St Kilda 146
Leigh Montagna – R10 v Melbourne 146
Matthew Pavlich – R8 v Hawthorn 146
Cale Morton – R7 v West Coast 146
Mitchell Clark – R19 v Essendon 145
Jonathan Brown – R17 v North Melbourne 145
Paul Chapman – R13 v Port Adelaide 144
Jimmy Bartel – R6 v Melbourne 144
Leigh Montagna – R3 v West Coast 144
Darren Jolly – R2 v Hawthorn 144
Jack Grimes – R14 v West Coast 143
Brendan Fevola – R19 v Geelong 142
Jason Akermanis – R18 v Fremantle 142
Steven Baker – R16 v Adelaide 142
The players listed in this more than once are:
Paul Chapman 4
Leigh Montagna 3
Dane Swan 3
Gary Ablett jnr 3
Ryan O’Keefe 2
Leon Davis 2
Jimmy Bartel 2
These are the names you would expect to be up there with numerous high scores.
ah Joel Selwood’s 185 i remember that day. He absolutely dominated, u probably couldnt go two minutes without seeing him touch the ball. I loved the fact he was in my team but unfortunately wasnt my captain. =[
My brother in law was in the same league as me and when we played each other he had Selwood for captain. It was that round and I went Swan
DT can be a very cruel game at times.
i had him vice caption so i remembered nearly killing my self i think i had someone caption who only got 100 with caption not happy!
Least you had him
Cooney is interesting to say the least!
whats a vice caption?