Where We Lost The Game

[out of harmes' way]

We got smashed in the clearances and in the ruck. Clokey works his butt off and noone can question his endeavour, but he is 5cm too short. Kruze is not qiute ready in the ruck but his around the ground work is fabulous. But, let's face it against the likes of Cox and Sandilands etc we will get belted. Crows ruckmen aren't even at the standard yet they won the hit-outs convincingly.

 

[Styxx]

Considering I was there I can give a pretty good assessment of where we lost it.

We should have kicked 8-4 in the first quarter instead of the 5.7. Three easy kicks went poorly and probably cost us.

The pressure was okay but a lot of the free kicks given to Adelaide where not there to be given. Also it looked like one of those days where nothing we would have tried worked and anything Adelaide did was an instant win.

Pfeiffer played poorly. Judd and Fevola were let downs but Judd looked like he was playing sore. Fevola couldn't sneeze without three players around him either.

Russell did a lot of good things around the ground but he CAN NOT KICK TO SAVE HIMSELF. Cloke and Betts tried hard and Browne was impressive on debut ( The attempted specky was classic) Bentick did a lot more with his second chance as well and was probably in the top 10.

One last thing. MOVE THE BALL FORWARD DON'T CHIP IT BACKWARDS AND SIDEWAYS FOR 5 MINUTES BECAUSE YOU WON'T HAVE A PLAYER FREE!!!!! Soft plays they were.

 

[Carlton_Blues]

Considering I was there I can give a pretty good assessment of where we lost it.

We should have kicked 8-4 in the first quarter instead of the 5.7. Three easy kicks went poorly and probably cost us.

The pressure was okay but a lot of the free kicks given to Adelaide where not there to be given. Also it looked like one of those days where nothing we would have tried worked and anything Adelaide did was an instant win.

Pfeiffer played poorly. Judd and Fevola were let downs but Judd looked like he was playing sore. Fevola couldn't sneeze without three players around him either.

Russell did a lot of good things around the ground but he CAN NOT KICK TO SAVE HIMSELF. Cloke and Betts tried hard and Browne was impressive on debut ( The attempted specky was classic) Bentick did a lot more with his second chance as well and was probably in the top 10.

One last thing. MOVE THE BALL FORWARD DON'T CHIP IT BACKWARDS AND SIDEWAYS FOR 5 MINUTES BECAUSE YOU WON'T HAVE A PLAYER FREE!!!!! Soft plays they were.

We need more targets then Fev, he's always gonna be double/tripple teamed after other clubs saw his previous performances!

 

[The Coach]

Have now watched it 3 times! (once to take notes on my man AB for my report). I can safely say we lost this game - they did not win it, never thought I would say that about a game with a 5gl margin but am prepared to sit down with any logical Adelaide supporter and back this claim.
I started reporting on centre bounce clearances earlier in this thread and can now give all 4Q's
Q1 4-4 (but missed first CB so?)
Q2 4-2 Adel
Q3 5-4 us
Q4 5-0 Adel

 

[TorresIsGod]

I reckon we lost the game by picking Jordan Russell and trading Josh Kennedy to the Eagles when we were crying out for a big CHF to take control of the game!

Why did we let Josh go? So much potential, what a gun, he showed so much promise for us, he's a star

 

[TorresIsGod]

I'm fairly certain (but not 100% sure) that Adelaide won the first centre clearance.

 

[therubbernub]

I think Adelaide are a good side. Have only lost to hawks and Dogs this year. We seemed to keep with them for 3 quarters despite injuries and bad luck with frees and kicking for goal. not a bad effort really.

 

[one_twelve112]

Adelaide were too well drilled for us on Saturday. Their coach seemed to change the tempo and style of the game and the Blues basically shit themselves and had no idea what to do. I thought Ratten was out-coached and failed to make attacking moves in the midfield when the game was there to be won. We still have a lot to learn.

 

[Bosun]

For the love of god leave Waite back, he's doing doing a great job down there, dont start moving him around because of a couple of bad kicks. The reason he is regarded as just potential instead of a star right now is because the last few years he has been thrown into 5 different positions, give him one position and let him settle and get used to it.

We lost on Saturday to a pretty good team who punished our mistakes. They slaughtered us in the ruck and at the stoppages and when the team has the likes of McLeod, Edwards, Goodwin and Burton they are still a damn good team.

 

[The Coach]

We made many crucial mistakes, kicked badly for goal, had injury problems, our best players were down, no one in the 5 BOG, suffered some painful umpiring decisions when it counted AND only lost by 5gls

 

[AlecDuncan]

We made many crucial mistakes, kicked badly for goal, had injury problems, our best players were down, no one in the 5 BOG, suffered some painful umpiring decisions when it counted AND only lost by 5gls

Ha! Too right. It wouldn't have taken much to go right for us to frighten the fecal matter out of them.

 

[chelseacarlton]

I'm fairly certain (but not 100% sure) that Adelaide won the first centre clearance.

unrelated,but im not so sure torres is god,perhaps a disciple?

 

[iRemember87]

First quarter kicking 5.7....should have been 9.3, simple as that.

We would have been 36 up and with confidence from previous years it would have rolled on....then later in the game our kicking for goal slapped us with our pants down...we should have been better.

But thats footy, next week is a new game!!!

On the Fev being triple teamed...where were the men that were free...the people kicking forward should be smarter and see 3 on Fev look elsewhere.

I think if teams are triple teaming we should play man on man in the forward line, have 8-9 players in there, and then when he ball is coming spread and this makes the looded players follow our players.

Make the loose men accountable and make them man us up.