Shattered

[ESKIE]

Is that a joke?

Waite is arguable.. but no way is Thornton > Maguire

Before Maguire's injury, he was the best CHB in the league

Check the stats, Thornton is the number one in the comp for contested marks...so yes we missed him.

 

[Salaryman]

Joseph on Milne baffled me, couldn't believe Ratten had that match-up, made no real sense to me. Armfield or Browne are both tough/quick guys who could have got under that little Rats skin. Montagna and Dal Santo has been devastating this year, no idea why he basically let them run free. We had a chance to limit forward thurst with Joseph but it didn't happen and we paid the price. Joseph would have limited eithers influence on the game. Both had over 35 touches and their delivery forward really hurt. Very much a mistake for mine.

I think Ratten made a few errors with his match-ups and structure early on but what he did during the game was very very good. Was able to iron out those mistakes which saw us have a chance of winning. While I think Joseph could have been utilised better elsewhere, he did much more good than bad last night did Ratten.

one thing i have noticed with carlton is that they lack a quality tagger, montagna, dal santo and hayes all got over 30 touches, i know you have armfield/bannister etc, i really think you need someone like a kane cornes/ling type, i know they are hard to find, but if carlton stop one of those stkilda midfielders last night, i reckon you win

Potential masochistic post here, but dare I say it, JR might have been handy last night, perhaps in place on Garlett....another quick tall big bodied run with, and you can have your Joseph on Milne match-up and run with one of Dal and Leigh too

 

[Salaryman]

Some of your best work there CarltonFan

 

[SaintsPremiers08]

if that's a 98% full-strength St.Kilda side, they are at least 5 goals behind Geelong. If they lose Reiwoldt or Kosi it would be catastrophic for their flag chances. From tonights showing if the Saints don't win the flag this year, they never will. Simple as that.

The Blues are on the up. If they don't beat the stupid Bombers and Freo the next few weeks then we're bigger phonies than St.Kilda. But I don't think so

The best thing is we are starting to weed out the men from the Pagan boys so we will have player that will know how to win! No BS there, unlike St.Kilda!

There's always 1 player from every team, that if injured, the team would struggle.

If you lost Judd, If we lost Riewoldt...etc

 

[Salaryman]

Sauce?

I think he's on it

 

[Cruiser23]

I think he's on it

This should be interesting....

 

[ratten7]

Potential masochistic post here, but dare I say it, JR might have been handy last night, perhaps in place on Garlett....another quick tall big bodied run with, and you can have your Joseph on Milne match-up and run with one of Dal and Leigh too

Blasphemy, last thing we need is another 10 threads each week on how bad this guy is.

 

[blue gunslinger]

I'm happy but not.... really shattered.

• It's awesome to know that "when we come to play" we are really inspiring to watch... and then we play like we do against Freo, Sydney, Essendon and it makes you sick on how Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde we can be.
• Browne, Joseph are now permanents in my best 22.
• Garlett, Austin another pre-season and some meat will be in our best 22.
• Betts, Simpson, are taking that step from B grade players and edging oh so close to A grade status.
• WTF is Carazzo doing?
• Houlihan is a pure and simple princess. He's got this great physique and skills but in the end is a scared little chicken shyte player. There was a moment where I was pleading with him to go hard at the ball dive down and sort of nudge it over the line so we could be in a 50/50 situation at a throw in. But he being too frightened allowed a Saint's player to get the hard ball and clear it for them costing a goal. Plus for a player of his skill to change his kicking technique having a shot from 50 metres out.... No longer in my best 22.
• Judd is amazing... the guy had blood pouring out of his mouth constricting his breathing and just dealt with it. When he was off in the third StKilda got that breathing space by kicking a couple of goals that most likely may have not eventuated if Judd was on.
• I think our coaching and fitness panels are priming us to play our best for the second half of the year. I still feel we are yet to go into "full mode" and I expect us to win 8 out of our last 10 games.
• Armfield has heart but needs major skill work... Murphy might be an option to take him under his wing and show him how he improved his skills so drastically over pre-season.
• For once good to see Fev shattered losing to St Kilda.
• Riewoldt gets treating well by umpires to protect TV Audiences from grimacing when they see a grow man cry.

GO BLUES..
still shattered!

Carrots and Army- you do not SEE what they do
They were most probably the 2 blokes that held the heart of St Kilda in their hands. If you do not understand their roles watch more closely. Method in their madness. THINK
Bluegal Hoops backed himself with that kick and failed. How many times will he deliver in the future is my question?
Coaches screwed up from 1st bounce and played catch up
Def needs more help from the mids who are not working hard enough

 

[Team Mo']

Has there ever been a worse 12-0 side in the history of the AFL? A tiny bit of pressure and they fall like a deak of cards.

Last week the kangaroos a farr inferior side were able to smash them by just putting on simple tackles and giving them no space. When we were able to finally do this last night we were able to jump them and still do this in all of 10 minutes.

Obviously consistency is a problem but Geelong have got consistency down to a fine art. They will dominate the saints...