Weโre back for Round 15 of Zero Hangerโs weekly โfiveย useless statsโ series.
Every week Aaron Delaporte fromย Useless AFL Statsย will take a look at the most useless statistics from the weekend just gone, the absurd, the ridiculous and just the plain outrageous.
Round 15 did not disappoint with a plethora of Useless Stats to choose from however these are the most captivatinglyย Useless Statsย from the round just gone.
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4. Bouncing Bailey Dale
Western Bulldogs defender Bailey Dale went within one running bounce of setting what would have been a very unique Useless Stat. Dale had six consecutive running bounces in the last quarter for the Bulldogs, running out of defence before he was corralled on the far wing by Andrew Gaff and forced to handball backwards.
Had Dale of managed a seventh bounce he would have joined just three other known efforts by players to have had seven consecutive bounces - they are Michael Mitchell, Mick McGuane and Brent Harvey. McGuane and Mitchell both won goal of the year with their efforts in 1994 and 1990 respectively, with Harvey credited with the behind of the century for his Rd 3 2010 effort against West Coast.
So had Dale completed that seventh bounce would have been the only player to ever do so without kicking a score. You can check out replays of those seven bounce efforts on our Useless AFL Stats Facebook Page
