2018 Rd 13: Post Game Prattling-Carlton v Fremantle

[RiverRat]

you could argue the Freo midfield makes it easier......

Easy argument to win

[Lods]

I'm prepared to give Casboult a "get out of Gaol free" card just for this week.

First game back after a five week break into a side that was being mauled and it was probably a bit difficult for him to have much of an impact.

[Barbs]

If he doesn't get the ball on his terms, he allows his opponent to run downfield to create an overlap or loose player and he just jogs along behind (if that).

This could be just about any player wearing navy blue yesterday (or this season)

At stoppages and contested marking contests we seem to set up in ways that our boys are all standing together and leaving the opposition unattended. When the ball spills the opposition move together and break in numbers. We just turn and start jogging back to leave it to the next layer of defenders to deal with. Hardly anyone chases with the intensity needed to stop the easy ball movement.

Worse still is our defensive tactic of guarding space. The opposition just work harder to either lead into space for the mark or create the overlapping run that breaks through as we don't chase down hard enough or stay in the contest long enough. When we do chase, its like 3 guys converge on the ball carrier rather than stay with a player who is going to be the next link in the chain.

I know we're young will make mistakes. But these sort of tactical and behavioural shortfalls are where you start to question the coaches and their game plan.

[laj]

The issue isn't si much about playing ability it's the complete and utter total lack of effort by the side.  Why did this happen? Aak the coach.

You can have an all time great side but if they completely and utterly lack effort they get smashed.

Over to the coach to get them up.

[flyboy77]

I don't want to see Lamb,  Kerridge, Casboult or Graham in our colours again.  They contribute little of positive value and their mistakes and basic skill errors are toxic.  Casboult.... Seriously,  when is this 200 CM stack of worm food going to move in any manner befitting a forward, or even make some physical impact on a game.  Play the bootstudders dog,  but please, please not these clowns anymore.

Why is our list bereft of rebounding defenders?  Were you asleep last draft period SoS?  It's football 2018 not 1918.

Weeters really worries me.  We took a quality young player and stuffed him. Trade him,  if he has any value left.

Our "future midfield" supposedly includes Dow,  SPS,  o'Brien and Fisher.  Why so many midgets and jockeys SoS?  Why do our kids lag so far behind other clubs'in output and impact. Why do they all appear "soft" in contests????

I'm bloody angry and I want answers,  meaningful explanations, not the glib cliches that BB has thrown around for 2 1/2 years.  Put up or piss off Bolton,  we supporters and members have had a gutful. 

Why single those four out? That's rubbish - Rowe, Cripps, both Curnows also equally inept displays of skill/decision making. And Weiters too.

Did Bolts get the team on Mogadon before first bounce? They were - all 18 of them - as flat as tacks.... their collective decision making was on that benchmark.

Darcy Lang? Entirely invisible since his return....etc etc.

Casboult simply shouldn't have played first up after a 5-6 week injury - another dumb MC decision.

[Baggers]

Probably his best game for the year but I cannot accept that he worked hard both ways.

If he doesn't get the ball on his terms, he allows his opponent to run downfield to create an overlap or loose player and he just jogs along behind (if that).

Very skillful player but he hasn't improved since last season is is a lazy player.

Totally agree, saw it a few times yesterday... jogging after his opponent  :

[blue4life]

I'm prepared to give Casboult a "get out of Gaol free" card just for this week.

First game back after a five week break into a side that was being mauled and it was probably a bit difficult for him to have much of an impact.

He's now a 100 game, 7 year player, the sort of player who needs to stand up when the team is under pressure or being badly beaten.
It's high time we stopped making excuses for him.

[blue4life]

I don't think he is good enough to play man-on-man

There's only one way to find out and it's not as if we can be beaten more easily if we try it.
Weitering should be the corner stone of our defence for the next decade, if he's not up to the task it's better to find out now.

[Lods]

He's now a 100 game, 7 year player, the sort of player who needs to stand up when the team is under pressure or being badly beaten.
It's high time we stopped making excuses for him.

For that reason we don't have the luxury of bringing him back through the VFL.
If he's fit he has to play...That doesn't mean he's match ready after a five week break.
He's been OK for us this year before he was injured.

[Blue Moon]

I think Carlton merchandising should be selling signed commemorative white flags after yesterday's performance.