ANALYSIS: Who's best and worst in the AFL at surge football in 2022?
The Demons have a league-leading 14 bursts of three or more goals — including eight in a row against Port Adelaide, seven in a row against GWS and six in a row against the Bulldogs in the grand final rematch.
Further down, Collingwood is on the edge of the top eight, but under new coach Craig McRae the Magpies are playing a dynamic brand of football. They are being helped by the likes of newcomers Nick Daicos and 10th gamer Jack Ginnivan — who already has 11 goals to his name — joining existing names like Jordan de Goey, Brody Mihocek, Jeremy Howe and Darcy Moore.
But it's not just a case of teams blitzing it for a solid quarter or a half — there are also the shorter, repeated bursts that wear down an opposition. There's a fairly easy explanation for the Demons' position. Even when they are not playing their best, they have a group of players who are able to lift at appropriate moments to stifle oppositions, or sense their opportunity and break the game open with multiple goals in a row.
The accurate disposal of Andrew Brayshaw is helping Fremantle pick better options in attack, the presence of contested ball-getters like Will Brodie are making life tougher for oppositions to get the ball out of the middle.
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