Review Good vs Carlton, R20 2022

[Smoooothy]

Shoutout to Tex. He legitimately should have been retired or delisted at the end of 2020. He was a shadow of his former self and it looked so unlikely we'd ever see the old Tex again.

It's amazing what happens when you don't get played injured.

His last 18 months he's turned the clock back. Legit is playing career best football. 600 goals is achievable

We love ya Tex!

 

[JP Sauce]

Bad: I was on the hill and saw so many fresh, crisp and clean Carlton scarves, beanies and guernseys. Newly puchased, bandwagon approved gear that won’t ever be worn again. Such waste.

 

[1990crow]

Who cares about the draft pick. Trade it out for JHF

 

[Redleg Crow]

Agree it’s time to start winning as long as we carry on some of the coaching and selection into next year

I hope we want Phillipou or Tsatas in draft

Yeah, I’m all in on Phillipou.

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Shoutout to Tex. He legitimately should have been retired or delisted at the end of 2020. He was a shadow of his former self and it looked so unlikely we'd ever see the old Tex again.

It's amazing what happens when you don't get played injured.

His last 18 months he's turned the clock back. Legit is playing career best football. 600 goals is achievable

We love ya Tex!

Great to see

 

[Sanders]

If you walk out of that game tonight worried about the draft pick, you will never truly enjoy Footy.

Or life for that matter. Adelaide Oval was pumping.





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Adelaide oval was pumping was it?


Where you at a different ground?

 

[Brenton Davy]

Ugly:

Acme quality control in their whistle division. The peas in the umps Acne Thunderers were obviously defective in the last quarter…

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Adelaide oval was pumping was it?


Where you at a different ground?

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Post covid pumping

At some point you just need to win , especially against those pricks

 

[Moonwatcher]

Who cares about the draft pick. Trade it out for JHF

North just have to accept whatever we offer?

 

[Skippos]

Lots of positives, but a couple of positives that are kind of negatives deep down.

- Why has it taken Worrell this long? He clearly has game. We're not good. This shouldn't be happening. You'd think 'maybe there's just something we're missing' - but there's not? He's solid. And worth a run. It's pretty poor that the match committee couldn't see that.

- It's really, really nice having role players in the side who aren't liabilities and work within a system pretty well? I'm talking that 13-22 range. For the last 5 years I feel like a lot of our role players have done one thing okay, but lots of things terribly, and kept being picked on seniority.

Comparing Mackay, Atkins, Knight, Gooch, Hartigan, Kelly, Brown, Murphy, Matt Crouch

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Matt Crouch

Age

29

Ht

183cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

28.4

5star

K

12.0

4star

HB

16.4

5star

M

3.3

3star

T

3.9

5star

CL

4.8

5star

D

24.9

5star

K

9.7

4star

HB

15.1

5star

M

2.4

3star

T

2.4

3star

CL

4.4

5star

D

21.2

5star

K

10.4

4star

HB

10.8

5star

M

4.4

4star

T

3.4

5star

CL

2.0

4star

, McPherson - who, to their credit, all had reasons to select them to Murray, Parnell, Hinge, Soligo, Worrell, Milera, McHenry, McAdam, Hamill and (sigh) still Murphy is just such a breath of fresh air. That second batch probably have as much of a material impact on winning as the first batch, but are much younger, harder workers, generally more composed ball users and don't have clear (generally - Ned has a couple) deficiencies that let us down time and time again. It's just frustrating how long we persisted with limited battlers on seniority alone.

Sure, I'm still concerned about the top end talent and what's going to replace Tex, Laird, Smith etc. doing heavy lifting, but I'm confident now that the 'depth' part of our 22 will be a strength for years to come and allow us to play a really solid high-pressure system. It's a real positive.

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Might be alone but i want Rankine

Fear that Port might get him too

 

[CrowBloke]

Fog shrugging off 3 tackles in a row and then slamming it straight through the middle. Special.

Just watched it on AFC highlights, OH MY STARS (and the last Carlton player is probably still seeing them), nothing short of a beautiful solo effort-and-goal.

Dusty is alive, and his name is FOGARTY.

 

[BRL121]

Bad: I was on the hill and saw so many fresh, crisp and clean Carlton scarves, beanies and guernseys. Newly puchached, bandwagon approved gear that won’t ever be worn again. Such waste.

I was astonished watching on TV that there was so much Carlton support there. It was impossible to tell from the crowd noise whether Carlton were hitting or missing their shots at goal: very disturbing.

 

[Betts are off]

What about Hamill body checking Cripps and coming off best... Cripps was not right after that either.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Why the disparity home and away?

Is it just young players intimidated away, buoyed by the crowd at home? Seems to affect our older guys too though, Tex aside.

 

[70lethal]

This was also a game where Soligo, Berry and Schoenberg were put in the middle when the game was in the balance. You have to learn that. Tanking is fine in theory, but at some point you have to be winners

Playing kids and winning is fantastic
Playing Crouch keays Laird and Sloane in the middle trying to win dead games at season end is waste of time with no benefits

 

[1990crow]

Might be alone but i want Rankine

Fear that Port might get him too

Nup. Very keen.

Fog, Thilthorpe, Rankine, Rachele up forward...
*Near future Tyler Welsh too.

Good luck opposition.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Bad: I was on the hill and saw so many fresh, crisp and clean Carlton scarves, beanies and guernseys. Newly puchached, bandwagon approved gear that won’t ever be worn again. Such waste.

The merchandise booth outside the eastern gate was doing a roaring trade

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Lots of positives, but a couple of positives that are kind of negatives deep down.

- Why has it taken Worrell this long? He clearly has game. We're not good. This shouldn't be happening. You'd think 'maybe there's just something we're missing' - but there's not? He's solid. And worth a run. It's pretty poor that the match committee couldn't see that.

- It's really, really nice having role players in the side who aren't liabilities and work within a system pretty well? I'm talking that 13-22 range. For the last 5 years I feel like a lot of our role players have done one thing okay, but lots of things terribly, and kept being picked on seniority.

Comparing Mackay, Atkins, Knight, Gooch, Hartigan, Kelly, Brown, Murphy, Matt Crouch, McPherson - who, to their credit, all had reasons to select them to Murray, Parnell, Hinge, Soligo, Worrell, Milera, McHenry, McAdam, Hamill and (sigh) still Murphy is just such a breath of fresh air. That second batch probably have as much of a material impact on winning as the first batch, but are much younger, harder workers, generally more composed ball users and don't have clear (generally - Ned has a couple) deficiencies that let us down time and time again. It's just frustrating how long we persisted with limited battlers on seniority alone.

Sure, I'm still concerned about the top end talent and what's going to replace Tex, Laird, Smith etc. doing heavy lifting, but I'm confident now that the 'depth' part of our 22 will be a strength for years to come and allow us to play a really solid high-pressure system. It's a real positive.

Was lucky enough to get some info on Collingwoods forward scouting review on us and it was really positive re how organised we are in full ground defence and how much pressure we apply

Just need to add more layers of offence and match winning ability / skill

Gotta also admit the players have been pretty resilient this year , have never dropped their heads . Just need more talent to make things easier

 

[Cap]

Hamill is another coming on well.

 

[BRL121]

I guess everyone knows this, but I just have to point it out again. Soligo is a very composed and talented footballer. In particular, his disposals under pressure are as good as anyone in our side. His handballs from congestion seemed to find his teammates at a rate similar to Oliver of Melbourne.

 

[Geoffa32]

Don’t reckon it will hurt our draft position too much

Reckon it’s gonna be Tsatas or Phillipou regardless

Or Horne Francis...

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[Thetrader15]

How good were our KPDs tonight. Both won multiple contests, and Worrell was exceptional with his body work for a 2 game player. Great teamwork down back with Smith and Hinge coming across to spoil on several occasions.

Some good coaching tonight.

 

[Thetrader15]

I guess everyone knows this, but I just have to point it out again. Soligo is a very composed and talented footballer. In particular, his disposals under pressure are as good as anyone in our side. His handballs from congestion seemed to find his teammates at a rate similar to Oliver of Melbourne.

Hamish has picked a good one there.

 

[WeeBlake]

Schoey back in form. He’s just a beautiful handball.

Sometimes on telly with their ridiculous angles and close ups you can’t see where his handball goes, only that he got it out. Tonight, you could just assume it hit the target and opened the play up. He’s a ripper.