Game Day Carlton Reserves Game Day Discussion Rnds 2 - 19

[katmanblue]

I don't think Parks or Williamson - to shoot Bambi a bit - have the requisite footysmarts to play AFL in a top side. Both could be role players, contribute week to week on the periphery of the side, but Parks attack on the ball is singleminded and can be made to be less intelligent/considered and more kamikazel; he's also prone to reacting to pressure with making poor decisions. Williamson has AFL physical attributes, but his game read is poorer than Cottrell; being a leader in the VFL might be the limit for him, because his role needs to have strong gamefeel or have a preternatural ability to spot up a target long upfield. Either he becomes a stopper back pocket, or he's not AFL level.

Ramsay needs to stop drifting in and out of games, but he looks like a mini Ollie Florent to me; just needs to find some dominance over a few weeks and he could replace Cottrell pretty soon. LOB needs to be belting the door down, because I don't know that deep down he believes he can do it; he needs the confidence being in exceptional form could grant to come straight in and be the player he could be. Of the players you list, he is - in my opinion - both the player we need to play more consecutive VFL games before promotion and the player we most need to come good.

On Willo: when I mentioned that I thought it was weird that he was played as key defender in the VFL I was told "that's more his go" by one of the leadership group.

 

[SkyhorseTamer]

We haven't ruined SPS, here is a player who refuses to put his body on the line, refuses "to go" when he has to.

This is just wrong. It's a perpetuated myth because once or twice he mightve tried to cheat a stoppage/contest or likely. Got called out by a teammate, literally who hasn't. Sps goes when it's his turn and has good intent. He literally looks like his body just won't do what he's wanting it to recently.

He took that ripping defensive mark in his last seniors game, laid a couple ferocious tackles and just walked off a vfl game on a wing with 10 tackles and clearly struggling to run.


Pot him if you want but don't call him soft or conditional when it comes to contact.

 

[Arr0w]

On Willo: when I mentioned that I thought it was weird that he was played as key defender in the VFL I was told "that's more his go" by one of the leadership group.

Well, he is very undersized to play that role

 

[Arr0w]

I don't think SPS is soft, moreso, trying to keep his feet rather than completely committing to a contest/tackle at times

I think he will find that balance

 

[windows1]

We have three blokes in the VFL who could/should make it - Honey, Kemp, and Carroll.

Crocker looks a VFL player to me.

Carroll has a long way to go before he earns ‘should make it’ status.

 

[norway blue]

I don't think SPS is soft, moreso, trying to keep his feet rather than completely committing to a contest/tackle at times

I think he will find that balance

Completely committing.


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[SkyhorseTamer]

I don't think SPS is soft, moreso, trying to keep his feet rather than completely committing to a contest/tackle at times

I think he will find that balance

Yeah I agree with this a bit too. He's not recklessly kamikaze with tackling in a contest but that's him. I've only ever seen one contest where he's actually pulled out when he should've gone, I've arguably seen one or more for every carlton player as well...

 

[95blues]

I don't think SPS is soft, moreso, trying to keep his feet rather than completely committing to a contest/tackle at times

I think he will find that balance

Yeah, looked very indecisive in the VFL game. Ran a lot but seemed uncertain about getting to the contest or sitting off it.

Result was a guy caught 30 metres off the play for the majority of the game.

 

[4flagsin5yrs]

Ramsay will make

Tough, inside or outside, quick, endurance, nice left peg.

Slightly undersize, but so is Karl Amon

So is Lachie Neale!

He goes ok.

 

[Bostonian]

A former Falcon will start training with the VFL side this week.

Don't ask for a name, not telling yet.

 

[zeeCFC]

A former Falcon will start training with the VFL side this week.

Don't ask for a name, not telling yet.

Dan O'Keefe connection?

 

[Bostonian]

Dan O'Keefe connection?

 

[katmanblue]

Well, he is very undersized to play that role

I agree, I *think* it may be more to do with his lack of game nous.

Might be easier just to play on your man than to read the play to intercept or know when to attack.

That's just supposition on my part though.

 

[Coona Blues]

A former Falcon will start training with the VFL side this week.

Don't ask for a name, not telling yet.

One name quickly comes to mind. Tall story?

 

[Bostonian]

One name quickly comes to mind. Tall story?

Cold on that one.

 

[Coona Blues]

Cold on that one.

OK, another name mentioned in two other threads. NOah idea........

 

[Bostonian]

OK, another name mentioned in two other threads. NOah idea........

Iceberg.

 

[Aphrodite]

Kemp grateful to be back

Brodie Kemp had a personal milestone when he played in the VFL on Sunday.

www.carltonfc.com.au

 

[Accidental genius]

Kemp grateful to be back

Brodie Kemp had a personal milestone when he played in the VFL on Sunday.

www.carltonfc.com.au

He’s in top physical condition. Well disciplined and hard working type to come out of his long spell looking like that.

 

[gbatman]

This is just wrong. It's a perpetuated myth because once or twice he mightve tried to cheat a stoppage/contest or likely. Got called out by a teammate, literally who hasn't. Sps goes when it's his turn and has good intent. He literally looks like his body just won't do what he's wanting it to recently.

He took that ripping defensive mark in his last seniors game, laid a couple ferocious tackles and just walked off a vfl game on a wing with 10 tackles and clearly struggling to run.


Pot him if you want but don't call him soft or conditional when it comes to contact.

Highlighted is literally the reason he's on the outer, it's the reason his footy is failing him.

He holds back, he doesn't go hard, he runs around contested ground balls and is unwilling to take tackles and he let's the opposition run through contests without checking them. It's not his body not letting him do things it's his mind.

He's made it so far because of skills and smarts but if you aren't willing to embrace the contact side of the game AFL will catch you out.

He's literally not hard enough at the contest and that's why we won't play him in the midfield.

10 tackles and bugger all possessions, probably holding back and letting the opposition have first crack at the footy like I see all the time, well at least he's stopping them because he has been letting them get through him at in AFL side.

It's quite simple for SPS, get the intensity and physicality up or move on. It's not on us it's on him.

It's frustrating because he has the talent to be a top player but as many great coaches have said, it's all between the ears.

 

[Jimmyonesix]

Best looking indigenous round jumper we've had -- on the note alone it's a 18 point win ..

 

[Jimmae]

Kemp grateful to be back

Brodie Kemp had a personal milestone when he played in the VFL on Sunday.

www.carltonfc.com.au

I love this report. Covers my own thoughts really well, and I'm so glad the development coaches are promoting this message to the match committee, the playing group and the coaching grup.

 

[Mister Carlton]

'For one of the better kicks at the Club, ‘Samo’ had four kicks, which isn’t ideal and not playing to his strengths'.

If Samo is one of the better kicks at the club we are in trouble.

 

[BlueTang]

I love this report. Covers my own thoughts really well, and I'm so glad the development coaches are promoting this message to the match committee, the playing group and the coaching grup.

2 years out, finally plays a game, lockdown. Poor bloke, he must be shattered.

 

[Jimmae]

2 years out, finally plays a game, lockdown. Poor bloke, he must be shattered.

The snap lockdown should fix things up, and he'll be straight back in. Might even see the fixture re-arranged to ditch the upcoming bye.