Round 3 Carlton v Essendon-Post match thread

[Brettie]

Just on Sheehan, I like the boy. Good run, great kick and nice size too. Damn shame MM made him the sub !

Even bigger shame he didn't play.....

[shadesy]

So in 3 years we kick more goals than points... Oh wait

We don't let teams kick 5 in a row on us.... Oh wait

We form kick long into the forward line to 3 on 1's.... Oh wait

We hustle back from a TO and flood the space in their forward 50... Oh wait

[cimm1979]

Even bigger shame he didn't play.....

Big Blue saw his two left foot kicks and got confused.

[cookie2]

Same old turnovers and poor kicking for goal killed us. We won the contested possession and clearances easily I believe.

Was pleased with Cripps' performance - a future star in the making for us IMO. Also Bell, I can't believe I'm saying this, looked a bit better.

Byrne looked promising also, but in limited game time.

[laj]

Cripps
Byrne
Whiley
Jaksch
Menzel
Buckley
Docherty
are all exciting young players .........let's play them

Casboult to get the 50m arc with Walker when either Kreuzer or Warnock return.

Wood, Curnow, Ellard, Rowe, Tutt are solid VFL players & no more than that!

Yes, everyone of them must play if you're rebuilding. Might find refreshing the list like that might produce some surprising results. None of these slow tagger through the guts. Carrazzo been a great player for this club but he's gone past it.

[LordLucifer]

i see Whiley got 29 possys in the two's, liker you can't wait to get him in.'

Trust me when I say, Whiley was the major prize in that trade deal, Jaksch was the steak knives !!

[ElwoodBlues1]

Same old turnovers and poor kicking for goal killed us. We won the contested possession and clearances easily I believe.

Was pleased with Cripps' performance - a future star in the making for us IMO. Also Bell, I can't believe I'm saying this, looked a bit better.

Byrne looked promising also, but in limited game time.

Cripps was great and looks very self assured, Byrne is a good colt, nice kicking skills and liked the way he chases.......Bell...well same old same old IMO....not good enough.

Jones and Casboult were next to useless...kudos to Wood...beat Bellchambers and tried hard, ..Touhy was ok, thought Simpson was only average until late in the game.

Muphy tried hard but did do much with the ball.....

[kruddler]

Yarran won't be playing for a couple of weeks. Perhaps a chance to bring in Boekhorst to play a similar role of run and carry.

Curnow got the red vest and may get a full game next week in a team that used to be red.

Cripps is displaying the same kind of 'diesel hands' that his highlights video showed. Coming along beautifully.

Loved Armfield being back in the side. He has the never say die attitude that our team has been lacking and i reckon his hand in a goal in the last quarter got the boys up. Has to be in the side next week.

Byrne showed a bit. Nothing really negative to say about him will get some more games, but still needs a run in the 2's to actually get some game time.

All in all a good effort considering the last 2 weeks and a potentially 3 blowout on the cards. Fought it out and dominated the clearances. If only we could kick straight, we'd have 4 points on the board.

[Rational_Expectations]

I thought Ellard played with a bit of spirit - I liked it.
Whiley in for Curnow.

[Lods]

Really liked Cripps' game
A good set of stats too

22 disposals,
15 contested possessions (equal best for us)
Clearances 5,
inside 50s 6
Tackles 4
one knock is that his disposal efficiency was only 50% but a lot of his disposals were under pressure.

His game time was a little less than the majority of players too