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Re: AFL Elimination Final 1 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney - spf - 08-28-2023
(08-28-2023, 11:21 AM)townsendcalling link Wrote:Our selections over the coming (hopefully) weeks is going to be interesting. Cincotta, Fogerty, Dow, Fisher, Durdin may not be in our best 22, but if required, have a major advantage over Kennedy, Boyd, even Cowan and Binns......recent, genuine match practice. I just can't see how you could consider Kennedy or Boyd in a final without a decent hit out under their belt. That deplorable effort by the Twos has killed off a number of players' chances of breaking back into the side.
It is a pity we do not have an alignment with other clubs / leagues where we can put players so they can keep playing for match fitness.
Re: AFL Elimination Final 1 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney - rocky - 08-28-2023
The number one player, for them, we have to shut out of the game is Gulden. I know it unfashionable nowadays but I would have Cottrell put the hardest tag in AFL history on him and completely obliterate his influence. He worries more than anyone else on that team.
Re: AFL Elimination Final 1 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney - Mantis - 08-28-2023
(08-28-2023, 01:46 PM)rocky link Wrote:The number one player, for them, we have to shut out of the game is Gulden. I know it unfashionable nowadays but I would have Cottrell put the hardest tag in AFL history on him and completely obliterate his influence. He worries more than anyone else on that team.
He must have had his name on the football against Melbourne. I am sure he was treated for leather poisoning.
Re: AFL Elimination Final 1 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney - LP - 08-28-2023
(08-28-2023, 08:17 AM)ElwoodBlues1 date Wrote:Dont mind Harry playing from the square as long as Charlie is a way up the ground and both are not flying together.They'll go back to alternating through the square in the finals, they didn't bother last weekend.
Re: AFL Elimination Final 1 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney - Lods - 08-28-2023
There seems to be a bit of a divide around our performance on the weekend. Some are of the opinion we should have gone hard, with the same intensity we’ve been playing at, and done our best to win the game. Others feel that was the game we needed to just rest a few players regroup, get some games into returning players and try and make it through as injury free as possible.
I’m in the second camp. I think the intensity we’ve been playing with was the reason we needed a game like Sunday night…but there are dangers, and it’s not guaranteed we’ll bounce back against the Swans.
The mental side of football is as critical as the physical side and at this time of the year it has an increased importance. We had a hard physical game against Melbourne. The toll of that carried over to the first half of the Gold Coast game and it took a big effort to come back and win. Our 50 point wins were suddenly 4 point wins. That was a bit of a clue that the pressure and intensity we’d been playing at was taking both a physical and mental toll. With that in mind the approach to the GWS game, with our position secure, was probably the best option.
The danger of course is going away from the entrenched way we’ve been playing. Will the less stressful week have been enough to freshen everyone up. The other issue is, for the majority of our team it will be their first finals experience. It will be another level. I think our game style stacks up but until we see it under the pressure that will come in two weeks, it’s an unknown.
Nick Newman, Adam Saad, Mitch McGovern, George Hewett, Lewis Young, Blake Acres all have played finals. I may have missed someone, but of those only Young is unlikely to play. So, we’re not without finals experience. The team we’re up against will have a little bit more. The team that played Melbourne have just about all played in multiple finals, including Grand Finals. Amartey is about the only player we’ll face without finals experience.
For some of our very best it will be their first finals game and it will be interesting to see how they go under a pressure they’ve not likely encountered before. You look at players like Cripps, Weitering and Curnow and think…these guys are made for these types of games, but we’ll see.
Re: AFL Elimination Final 1 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney - BluePhantom - 08-28-2023
In the games where we played high pressure football it was on the verge of being unsociable.... and I liked it... ALOT.
We need to bring this frenetic, high defensive game against the Swanettes. Plus being at the G with all the space, they won't enjoy too much.
Cannot bomb it to the forward line. We need to lead hard and honor the leads. Take that moment and spot a player.
Re: AFL Elimination Final 1 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney - pew2 - 08-29-2023
we cant allow the LIZARD to rebound from defence need to put clamps on him and Gulden is other dangerous player we need to concentrate on
Re: AFL Elimination Final 1 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney - Gointocarlton - 08-29-2023
(08-29-2023, 06:12 AM)pew2 link Wrote:we cant allow the LIZARD to rebound from defence need to put clamps on him and Gulden is other dangerous player we need to concentrate onBeat me to it. Also Heeney and Papley (if he plays). Papley in particular is a big game player and will thrive playing us week 1.
Re: AFL Elimination Final 1 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney - laj - 08-29-2023
We play anywhere near the previous 10 weeks we win. Up to us.
Reckon this year is our 1978 before our 1979. In many ways the situation is similar.
Re: AFL Elimination Final 1 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney - Thryleon - 08-29-2023
The last match vs Sydney we played like crap and still kicked ourselves out of it.
Sydney have been stuttering to the finish line in games, which is very un-sydney like, but we had the unfortunate pleasure of facing a bottom 4 team, that we have traditionally struggled with (St. Kilda, Sydney, GWS and to a lesser extent lately the Bulldogs).
They all have recently had our number one way or another.