Echuca’s premiership-winning season is in the books, and thanks to GVL data, we can look back and see the statistics from a memorable year for the Murray Bombers.
Midfielder Riley Smith was Echuca’s leading ballgetter this season, collecting 446 disposals across his 20 games played. Smith was also a key player in feeding the Muuray Bomber forwards with 94 inside 50s, the most for Echuca and fifth overall in the league.
Cooper Barber was also instrumental to Echuca’s attack — his 48 score assists has him first overall in that category in the GVL
Jack McHale was a beast in the midfield. He averaged 25.6 touches per game, the highest in the team.
McHale was working hard at the coalface for the Bottle Greens all year, earning 264 contested possessions — by far the most of anyone in the GVL and 70 more than the next highest Echuca player.
He was also the clearance king, amassing a huge 131 clearances — again, the most in the league.
Logan Prout was lethal by foot — he had the highest number of effective kicks (209), boasting a deadly 82 per cent kicking efficiency, the highest in the team.
Down forward, Ruory Kirkby was a machine for the Murray Bombers. He led both the team and the GVL in total marks (186), forward 50 marks (130) and contested marks (98).
He also booted 85 goals in his 20 games this season — the most in the league, three goals ahead of Mooroopna’s Christopher Nield who also played 20 games.
In the ruck, Kane Morris and Liam Tenace put up strong numbers, recording 443 and 305 hitouts each, both ranking in the top 10 across all GVL sides.
Sam Willoughby was a tackling machine in 2022, wrapping up 101 opponents, good for sixth overall in the GVL.
Down back, Aiden Mills was great at spoiling the party for opposition forwards, punching a team-high 65 spoils.
Prout and Ben Reid did a stellar job of repelling opposition attacks too as they led the way for Echuca with 65 and 63 rebound 50s — when the ball is moved from the defensive zone into the midfield — this season.