Autopsy 2025 Rd 23 Blues power on to their best performance of the year

[CoachB]

Where has that 45°lick been all season? We looked good going inside 50 for the first time in ages.

Suggests we don't train at game tempo often enough, pretty good when the witches hats come out.

 

[blue gunslinger]

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda..
Facts are Motlop kicked none!

I hope we can find a better small forward in the off season.

nor did Fogarty and the sub Durdin - but its OK keep whacking the whipping boy. Motlop had a very good game.
I hope we can find better supporters in the off season.

 

[gab213]

nor did Fogarty and the sub Durdin - but its OK keep whacking the whipping boy. Motlop had a very good game.
I hope we can find better supporters in the off season.

He had a great game, and the only reason he was goalless was that he was dishing the ball off to teammates when he could have taken a shot himself. It was a very unselfish display.

 

[BigFrizz36]

Unfortunately that’s the price you can pay if you’ve played for frees in the past

When does Nick Daicos start paying this said price?

 

[TENACIOUS]

nor did Fogarty and the sub Durdin - but its OK keep whacking the whipping boy. Motlop had a very good game.
I hope we can find better supporters in the off season.

Are you retiring?

Moving past your (sooky lala) personal attack.

What part of Motlop's game was very good yesterday?

I admit he does have (elite, x-factor) finger pointing, to teammates to pick up his opponent because he doesn’t want too.

I’m sure Jesse is a great bloke and tries his best. I just think we can/need to get better small forwards than Motlop, Durdin and Fogarty.

Evans and Williams have really stood up in the role this year.

 

[BlueLocke]

Loved Moir’s right foot set shot. Absolutely freakish ability to pick which foot depending on the angle.

Young was brilliant on Georgiadis. Port were awful but he’s still been kicking goals every week.

Dead game or not, great to see a growing group of young players get a win. Sure, we bullied them in the contest, but we actually played the angles yesterday and the result spoke for itself.

Wilson makes mistakes but works incredibly hard to cover the ground; plenty to work with. In fact, the backline looks okay going forward with Wilson, Cowan, Carroll gelling well; adding in Dean and HOF in the future tells me we should be alright.

 

[BlueTongue]

nor did Fogarty and the sub Durdin - but its OK keep whacking the whipping boy. Motlop had a very good game.
I hope we can find better supporters in the off season.

I get it, and I've calmed my farm on Jesse as he does a lot of good things.
But lets be brutally honest here, Has Jesse been dropped for poor form this year?
Every other small at Carlton has a revolving door on their career.

 

[FitzroyBlueBagger]

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda..
Facts are Motlop kicked none!

I hope we can find a better small forward in the off season.

He’s getting to the right spots, pressure and effort is sound while covering more ground, just not finishing off his opportunities on goals, sure it’s a bit frustrating but his not far off impacting more consistently…

 

[Bringbackeddie]

Amazes me that in a game we dominated, we still managed to lose the second half by a point. The way we start 3rd quarters has been one of the most frustrating parts of our game all year.

Another excellent game by Frankie and some of the less experienced crew.

 

[Gethelred]

Felt like Walsh graduated to a real leader today.

What in particular did he do yesterday to make you think so that he hasn't been doing his entire career?

 

[gbatman]

If this is a sign of the future for us then great. Port do happen to be our bunnies though and I do think that Ken Hinkley, like Voss has been late to the party when it comes to modern football so they aren't a side who typically expose us with pace and modern tactics. Still it was impressive.

One thing stood out that how massive a difference an injection of pace in the middle made to us with Walsh, he was great and really did use his running ability.

Haynes on a wing has been a really good move.

A lot of people forgot McKay can play, just the same the have forgotton Curnow can play.

Evans and young are two good finds out of the VFL.

Billy Wilson is improving with consecutive runs of senior football. They all are, this is why you have to get games into your youth.

Just a few things defensively. Weitering is struggling at times to make the right decision to stay on or stay off his man. To simplify things here. He needs to know he needs to be on his man when the ball is in the middle of the ground unless he is double teaming someone. He also needs to quickly shift onto his man when the ball is being carried forward. Just a few tweaks. A few other times we could have defended better was when they were running forward. Work hard to get goal side early. We trailed a lot and it caused us to be opened up on a few occasions. Apart from some little things we looked great. Be nice to finish the season strongly.

 

[AB_Blue]

He played well. Small forwards should be measured by how they go when the rest of the team is going well. They are the cream. Jesse was ferocious today.

Playing with more intensity since Frankie has come on…perhaps playing for his spot in the side/contract

 

[Jacks Seething Rage]

Amazes me that in a game we dominated, we still managed to lose the second half by a point. The way we start 3rd quarters has been one of the most frustrating parts of our game all year.

Another excellent game by Frankie and some of the less experienced crew.

I'd still argue we won the second half.

We lost the last 5 minutes by three goals.

 

[Gethelred]

Just a few things defensively. Weitering is struggling at times to make the right decision to stay on or stay off his man. To simplify things here. He needs to know he needs to be on his man when the ball is in the middle of the ground unless he is double teaming someone. He also needs to quickly shift onto his man when the ball is being carried forward. Just a few tweaks. A few other times we could have defended better was when they were running forward. Work hard to get goal side early. We trailed a lot and it caused us to be opened up on a few occasions. Apart from some little things we looked great. Be nice to finish the season strongly.

I think we need to simplify things, take a leaf from Collingwood's book and let Weitering loose a bit.

Have two matchups; one with even numbers behind the ball - a 6-6-6 or the setup with them forcing even numbers behind the footy - and one with an extra behind play. Most teams use an extra these days, so we let them choose: do you try and beat our midfield with even numbers in the contest - fat chance - or do you allow Weitering to cruel any offensive push?

If an opponent uses a loose anywhere on the ground, our reaction to that becomes to free up Jacob. Make him sit behind the play, akin to Rance/Moore/Stewart, and just let him read the play. Train his kicking - as, IMO, he plays it extremely safe by foot sometimes - until he's our best attacking disposer. Use his vision, use his hands and bodywork, use his game read and turn him into an offensive weapon out of back fifty.

It reduces the problem with his lack of pace, and maximizes his strengths.

The beauty of it is if opposition do place an extra around the stoppage, we can react to it by changing our position to counter their clearances rather than to win our own. Shift the entire setup to counter attack on turnover. Pull the forward flankers up and run the ball through the vacant space on turnover.

 

[The Blue Weirdo]

Playing with more intensity since Frankie has come on…perhaps playing for his spot in the side/contract

Frankie's energy and recent form is energising players around him.
Flynn and Mots are taking the game on more.

 

[agro]

If this is a sign of the future for us then great. Port do happen to be our bunnies though and I do think that Ken Hinkley, like Voss has been late to the party when it comes to modern football so they aren't a side who typically expose us with pace and modern tactics.

So with all the “Hinkley to Carlton talk” - how will this assist with adding the modern tactical IP we need to compete in the modern football environment- asking for a friend.

 

[Garters]

Missed every single minute due to work gig.

Hope you all had a good suckle at tbe emotional nourishment teat.

Indigestion on my side and chapped nipples on poor old mother Carlton's ample bosom. A joy to watch the youngsters getting their hands on it. (The ball that is, not mother Carltons ample bosom)
Go Blues

 

[Garters]

Weiters is playing like he's been scammed again

He wouldn't be scammed twice. I think he is just preoccupied planning for the trip to his uncles wedding in Nigeria post season.

 

[swuzzlebubble]

Port do happen to be our bunnies though and I do think that Ken Hinkley, like Voss has been late to the party when it comes to modern football so they aren't a side who typically expose us with pace and modern tactics.

Remind me what happened last time we played them

 

[Dramoth]

He had a great game, and the only reason he was goalless was that he was dishing the ball off to teammates when he could have taken a shot himself. It was a very unselfish display.

Handed off 2 or 3 goals. If his kick in the first hadn’t been smothered, it would possibly have gone through. But regardless, Frank kicked it in the end.

 

[gbatman]

So with all the “Hinkley to Carlton talk” - how will this assist with adding the modern tactical IP we need to compete in the modern football environment- asking for a friend.

Not sure it will.

 

[gbatman]

Remind me what happened last time we played them

Last 6 games it has been 4-2 our way. We have the better of Port.

 

[gbatman]

I think we need to simplify things, take a leaf from Collingwood's book and let Weitering loose a bit.

Have two matchups; one with even numbers behind the ball - a 6-6-6 or the setup with them forcing even numbers behind the footy - and one with an extra behind play. Most teams use an extra these days, so we let them choose: do you try and beat our midfield with even numbers in the contest - fat chance - or do you allow Weitering to cruel any offensive push?

If an opponent uses a loose anywhere on the ground, our reaction to that becomes to free up Jacob. Make him sit behind the play, akin to Rance/Moore/Stewart, and just let him read the play. Train his kicking - as, IMO, he plays it extremely safe by foot sometimes - until he's our best attacking disposer. Use his vision, use his hands and bodywork, use his game read and turn him into an offensive weapon out of back fifty.

It reduces the problem with his lack of pace, and maximizes his strengths.

The beauty of it is if opposition do place an extra around the stoppage, we can react to it by changing our position to counter their clearances rather than to win our own. Shift the entire setup to counter attack on turnover. Pull the forward flankers up and run the ball through the vacant space on turnover.

Weitering is an intercept defender, that role is all about decision making, when to play off and when to attach.

Weitering is struggling a bit with the change of game plan, we are going into the middle more and oppositon sides are as well.

When to drop off and when to re-attach. Keeping the ball boundary which has been a focus of us, he hardly has to attach, now things have changed, he's getting it wrong a bit.

You do not want to be 15-20m off you man when the opposition have the ball in hand and are running towards goal. You do not want to be doing then when the ball is in the middle of the ground. Has been caught out a lot getting this wrong this year and he did in this game.

Play as lose as you like when we have them out wide, but he has to re-attach when it goes central or they get it on the run.
You can't be lose all the time, especially when you are playing on key forward.

Rance played in the era of congestion and boundary play. Moore has played in the best pressure and defensive team in the game and knows when to reconnect, Stewart much the same deal as Moore.

You only play that lose role when your team's defence allows you to. Reading this is currently an issue for Weitering. Yes play lose, but know when to reconnect and react fast. Those moments for him are when the ball is in the middle and when it looks as if the ball carrier kicking inside 50 may be on the run AND you don't have a congested back 50 to help with. Only play lose when the ball is in the middle when you are double teaming a forward (one each side). We/he are getting it wrong a little.

 

[TheThunderboltKid]

He wouldn't be scammed twice. I think he is just preoccupied planning for the trip to his uncles wedding in Nigeria post season.

Oh wow, small world, I just found out I have a long lost uncle from there too!

 

[swuzzlebubble]

Last 6 games it has been 4-2 our way. We have the better of Port.

You could say the same about Geelong.
Is their game plan no good either?

I think both cases show that we have something to work with.