2018 Rd 9: Post Game Calm: Carlton vs Melbourne

[blue4life]

Murphy's

Gibbs, Weitering, Petrevski-Seton last year without a pre-season and now Dow.
When you're desperate you don't have much choice, due to our woeful recruiting over a sustained period we just don't have that core group of foot soldiers to take the load off the kids.

[hanwell]

That's because those players are playing elsewhere.......

[townsendcalling]

Gibbs, Weitering, Petrevski-Seton last year without a pre-season and now Dow.
When you're desperate you don't have much choice, due to our woeful recruiting over a sustained period we just don't have that core group of foot soldiers to take the load off the kids.

We therefore answer our own questions in a sense by acknowledging that, due to sins of the past, we are forced into a ‘play all the youth at all costs’ strategy which is a long, long way home.

[blue4life]

That's because those players are playing elsewhere.......

To some extent, but we are missing a group of mid 20's players due to drafting failures.
Watson, Bootsma, Austin, Menzel, Lucas, etc. etc. etc.

[blue4life]

We therefore answer our own questions in a sense by acknowledging that, due to sins of the past, we are forced into a ‘play all the youth at all costs’ strategy which is a long, long way home.

We have no other choice in my opinion, we've been down the recycled road and it leads nowhere.

[hanwell]

A disastrous combination which we are reaping now....

[Lods]

We therefore answer our own questions in a sense by acknowledging that, due to sins of the past, we are forced into a ‘play all the youth at all costs’ strategy which is a long, long way home.

Unfortunately yes
It's a vicious circle...Who had the easier path into senior football?
Who was surrounded by players that served as examples and protectors?
Murphy at Carlton or say a Selwood at Geelong.

In retrospect Murphy has done exceptionally well.
But he would have had a better introduction to AFL elsewhere.

[flyboy77]

why hasn't Shaw been given a run...

100 gamer, hard at it, runs all day - couldn't be any worse than Mullet or O'Shea...

Losing faith in the Bolton Plan....appears the players may be too....

[LP]

That’s one hell of a leap. Im gutted by today’s loss but you look at what we put out there and the effort of some individuals- we have some good assistant coaches, I see this more as players not listening or being capable of playing to instruction.

It's not like it's an isolated week, you'd have to assert they haven't learnt a thing in 3 years!

Contrast that result with the Lions, they look organised, they execute the basics and sacrifice for each other.

Ducking kerridge - kicks round corners instead of playing percentages, daisy try’s to play champagne football to LOB when Spumante would have been the better option. Jones failing to get body contact with his opponent ....the list goes on. I agree wiTh an earlier post, get rid of the spuds and let the kids play!

The defenders coming off the HBF are on a hiding to nothing, because you know somewhere down the chain we will turn the ball over and the mids and forwards will exert minimal pressure on the roll back.

[LP]

Liam Jones started ok but ended up out of sync with the flow of the game and got caught in between contests or like OShea just arrived too late...

There is the difference between Jones and Weitering, Weitering will read the play and place himself in the right locations, Jones has to be in the right location by chance so that he can impact the contest. Weitering will mark the ball giving us control, Jones will punch the footy creating chaos!

One is the future, the other a passing curiosity!

Put Jones inside F50, instruct the mids to kick the ball long and high 20m from wherever he stands, and make sure the kids are front and square. The new focus by umpires on blocking will really help him.