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Re: Post Game Parlay: AFL 2019 Rd 3: Carlton vs Sydney - kruddler - 04-08-2019
(04-08-2019, 08:01 AM)PaulP link Wrote:Possibly a team balance issue, trying to offset the heavier bigger bodies with some outside run and carry ? Just a thought.
Team balance issue? THe only issue with team balance occured once we heard the ins and outs!
Re: Post Game Parlay: AFL 2019 Rd 3: Carlton vs Sydney - flyboy77 - 04-08-2019
As others have raised, there appears a recurring theme with the ruck - the opposition ruckman, even if a relative no name, is just about best afield against us.
Why?
Re: Post Game Parlay: AFL 2019 Rd 3: Carlton vs Sydney - PaulP - 04-08-2019
(04-08-2019, 08:07 AM)kruddler link Wrote:Team balance issue? THe only issue with team balance occured once we heard the ins and outs!
I guess the point I was making is that the MC may have had an each way bet. Leave out LoB, and bring in Kennedy and possibly also Jack Silvagni, and it looks bigger, but also slower, possibly too slow. My observations are that we competed very well around the contest, and apart from goal kicking, we lost to a more experienced, harder team with better synergy and better skills. And I'm not sure how Kennedy and/or JS would have helped.
Re: Post Game Parlay: AFL 2019 Rd 3: Carlton vs Sydney - flyboy77 - 04-08-2019
(04-08-2019, 08:15 AM)PaulP link Wrote:I guess the point I was making is that the MC may have had an each way bet. Leave out LoB, and bring in Kennedy and possibly also Jack Silvagni, and it looks bigger, but also slower, possibly too slow. My observations are that we competed very well around the contest, and apart from goal kicking, we lost to a more experienced, harder team with better synergy and better skills. And I'm not sure how Kennedy and/or JS would have helped.
Kennedy is not slow. And this year he's fit.....
And he wins the ball. LOB (granted still a kid) is miles off that....
Re: Post Game Parlay: AFL 2019 Rd 3: Carlton vs Sydney - PaulP - 04-08-2019
(04-08-2019, 08:19 AM)flyboy77 link Wrote:Kennedy is not slow. And this year he's fit.....
And he wins the ball. LOB (granted still a kid) is miles off that....
Well, I don't really want to get into an argument about what constitutes "slow", but I consider him to be slow. And I know he wins the ball, but as I suggested, we don't really have a problem with winning the ball.
Re: Post Game Parlay: AFL 2019 Rd 3: Carlton vs Sydney - flyboy77 - 04-08-2019
(04-08-2019, 08:28 AM)PaulP link Wrote:Well, I don't really want to get into an argument about what constitutes "slow", but I consider him to be slow. And I know he wins the ball, but as I suggested, we don't really have a problem with winning the ball.
And he's a mature body and he's hard at it, and he can go forward, take a mark and kick a goal.
LOB - nope.
Re: Post Game Parlay: AFL 2019 Rd 3: Carlton vs Sydney - Thryleon - 04-08-2019
(04-08-2019, 07:26 AM)jeza link Wrote:On that point we are in 100% agreement.
18 years old weighing 70-something kilos playing in an abject misery of a team and we're going the glass is half empty!
I don't know how well you remember those last 2 games of his last year but I think he's being sold short. There was 1 other game which he was really good - maybe Hawthorn I think. It's a bloody good achievement for a kid and full credit to him.
He was pretty rubbish against the Swans but he'll bounce back from that.
I'll give him a chance but I remember being more excited by kane Lucas.
I have yet to see "it" with o brien.
He's the one player I'm most worried about out of all our draftees.
Polson shows a competitive instinct.
Fisher is perhaps the best of the lot.
Sps is silky.
Dow has wow factor.
Weitering is reliable and shows class.
Curnow has x factor.
McKay has shown he can influence games and moves extremely well for a big man.
Kerr is a bit old school but kicks it well, is competitive in the air, but is a bit old school.
Jack silvagni shows a competitive edge, and seems clever despite his limitations.
Cunningham is clean and knows where the goals are.
Walsh is the most complete player we've drafted.
O brien worries me. I've yet to see "it".
Re: Post Game Parlay: AFL 2019 Rd 3: Carlton vs Sydney - Professer E - 04-08-2019
What he said.
Re: Post Game Parlay: AFL 2019 Rd 3: Carlton vs Sydney - blue4life - 04-08-2019
O'Brien and Dow are a bit timid just yet, they're not naturally aggressive and it will take them a few years to get comfortable.
They both have good skills and good aerobic capacity, they'll be good players.
Re: Post Game Parlay: AFL 2019 Rd 3: Carlton vs Sydney - DJC - 04-08-2019
(12-05-1974, 09:24 AM)LP link Wrote:I concede the Swans are ultra-professional and nearly always do the right thing, the little things.
I think that’s the key LP; we’re a long way off always doing the right thing. That won’t matter too much against other developing teams but will hurt us when we play top eight contenders.
I suspect we won’t start doing the right thing consistently until we start stringing wins together, and I think that it will be the wins that encourage the right things rather than the other way around.