NiGHTFuRY
25 May 2008, 03:13
Ratten mentioned Freo's fadeouts
24/05/2008 7:04:03 PM
Angus Morgan
Sportal
Carlton coach Brett Ratten has conceded he 'didn't miss' the Dockers in his three-quarter time address at Telstra Dome on Saturday, ramming home the message to his players that Freo's poor final-quarter performances in 2008 made it ripe for the picking.
Ratten's Blues were able to do precisely what Geelong, Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs achieved against Fremantle over the past three rounds - come from behind at the final change to win, by nine points.
The Dockers have won only one final quarter this season, and Ratten made their fadeouts the focus of his three-quarter time address when the Blues were trailing by three points.
"I didn't miss. When you're going into the last quarter, yeah, we made it a highlight," Ratten told his post-match media conference.
"When it's nearly even at three-quarter time you think you're a massive chance and when you've dominated the game of controlled the game for most of it, you think you can go on with the job."
"It would have been disappointing if we fell off because they hit the front, but … 10 points down, we fight our way back and find a way to win."
Ratten said he felt the Blues had been the better team over the first three quarters despite trailing.
While Carlton failed to make the most of their goalscoring opportunities in scoring 11.10 to that stage, the Dockers went into the final quarter having nailed 13 goals from 14 goalscoring attempts.
Their sole behind to three-quarter time was a second-term poster to Chris Tarrant.
"We dominated most of the play. There were a few aspects that Fremantle exposed us at times, but I thought that we should have been further in front," Ratten said.
"Poor kicking is poor football but … we've had 27 shots to their 18 or so. We were all over them but couldn’t put it away at the end of the day."
"I thought we just stuck to our task and what we had to do."
"Sometimes you don’t kick so straight, and we didn't today, so to get the reward for what we did - I think to squash another record - Round 16, 2001 was the last time we beat Fremantle and that's another record we tick off to say it’s a new beginning for this team."
Apart from the failure to capitalise in front of goal, Ratten said the Blues' forward set-up generally was sub-standard considering they had 58 inside-50s to work with.
Ratten said he was rapt, however, with Nick Stevens' job on Peter Bell.
In his 201st AFL match, Stevens gathered 28 touches and kicked the game-breaking goal in the final term while holding Bell to just 15 touches.
And the coach was delighted with Setanta O'hAilpin's job in defence on Fremantle superstar Matthew Pavlich who finished with four goals.
"Our backline, I know players kicked goals but Setanta's role and Bower and Waite really stood up today - I thought they were great for us," he said.
Ratten said he believed O'hAilpin was 'very, very stiff' to concede a goal to Pavlich before the opening bounce when Pavlich went to ground while involved in some regulation pre-match jousting.
24/05/2008 7:04:03 PM
Angus Morgan
Sportal
Carlton coach Brett Ratten has conceded he 'didn't miss' the Dockers in his three-quarter time address at Telstra Dome on Saturday, ramming home the message to his players that Freo's poor final-quarter performances in 2008 made it ripe for the picking.
Ratten's Blues were able to do precisely what Geelong, Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs achieved against Fremantle over the past three rounds - come from behind at the final change to win, by nine points.
The Dockers have won only one final quarter this season, and Ratten made their fadeouts the focus of his three-quarter time address when the Blues were trailing by three points.
"I didn't miss. When you're going into the last quarter, yeah, we made it a highlight," Ratten told his post-match media conference.
"When it's nearly even at three-quarter time you think you're a massive chance and when you've dominated the game of controlled the game for most of it, you think you can go on with the job."
"It would have been disappointing if we fell off because they hit the front, but … 10 points down, we fight our way back and find a way to win."
Ratten said he felt the Blues had been the better team over the first three quarters despite trailing.
While Carlton failed to make the most of their goalscoring opportunities in scoring 11.10 to that stage, the Dockers went into the final quarter having nailed 13 goals from 14 goalscoring attempts.
Their sole behind to three-quarter time was a second-term poster to Chris Tarrant.
"We dominated most of the play. There were a few aspects that Fremantle exposed us at times, but I thought that we should have been further in front," Ratten said.
"Poor kicking is poor football but … we've had 27 shots to their 18 or so. We were all over them but couldn’t put it away at the end of the day."
"I thought we just stuck to our task and what we had to do."
"Sometimes you don’t kick so straight, and we didn't today, so to get the reward for what we did - I think to squash another record - Round 16, 2001 was the last time we beat Fremantle and that's another record we tick off to say it’s a new beginning for this team."
Apart from the failure to capitalise in front of goal, Ratten said the Blues' forward set-up generally was sub-standard considering they had 58 inside-50s to work with.
Ratten said he was rapt, however, with Nick Stevens' job on Peter Bell.
In his 201st AFL match, Stevens gathered 28 touches and kicked the game-breaking goal in the final term while holding Bell to just 15 touches.
And the coach was delighted with Setanta O'hAilpin's job in defence on Fremantle superstar Matthew Pavlich who finished with four goals.
"Our backline, I know players kicked goals but Setanta's role and Bower and Waite really stood up today - I thought they were great for us," he said.
Ratten said he believed O'hAilpin was 'very, very stiff' to concede a goal to Pavlich before the opening bounce when Pavlich went to ground while involved in some regulation pre-match jousting.