JLT Round 2 - Blues v Pies (11 March, Monday holiday)

[DJC]

22 yo, 47 games is the main attraction in a forward line that has changed structure and personnel every year for the past 3 year.....

I think we mark harshly sometimes!!

Never!

[jeza]

Simpson was crap today, why would anyone retract?

I thought he was pretty good. He and Samo were probably our best.

That was by far the worst game I've seen Dow play. He looked fatigued and fumbly from the start.

And Charlie got absolutely destroyed.

Everyone was below their best and yet we smashed them in clearances and beat them for inside 50s and contested possessions and should have won.

Gotta be a good sign for when we do put it together.

[kruddler]

Big name recruit McGovern struggled today.
Next big thing Curnowfides struggled today.
First team starters Kreuzer and Marchbank didn't play today.

We lost by 5 points to a team who won as many finals games as we did regular games last year.
...and we didn't play anywhere near our best either.


I'll take that.

[madbluboy]

Big name recruit McGovern struggled today.
Next big thing Curnowfides struggled today.
First team starters Kreuzer and Marchbank didn't play today.

We lost by 5 points to a team who won as many finals games as we did regular games last year.
...and we didn't play anywhere near our best either.


I'll take that.

Early in the last quarter I checked the stats on the AFL app and Collingwood had the top 10 ranked players on the ground and 17 of the top 19.

[townsendcalling]

Carlton website:

Best:

Jones, Cripps, Simpson, Petrevski-Seton, McKay, Murphy

Now there’s a discussion point!!!

[Gointocarlton]

Will be interesting to see the Rd 1 team - sounds like neither Polson nor Garlett did much today?

I cant see Garlett holding a defensive role. Looked lost.

[capcom]

Fellas, there's no way I've written them off.  Just gonna be a slow start IMO and how we develop

[jeza]

What went really well today were the amount of times we were able to break down their ball movement. They had a lot of possessions which went sideways and back which was obviously a result of our midfield defensive slide across the ground to cut off easy options. When they picked a way through the midfield our defense were pretty good at intercepting them. We won't face too many midfields more capable of cutting up an opponent through the midfield than collingwood.

What dropped off from last week was the damage from the small forwards. Gibbons, Ed and Polson weren't able to have the impact crumbing they did against the bombres.

Cunningham was very good again but down on last week.

One comment: There seemed to be a breeze blowing to the end that we kicked to in the last quarter. It was the scoring end - but the commentators never seemed to pick up on it.

[DJC]

Early in the last quarter I checked the stats on the AFL app and Collingwood had the top 10 ranked players on the ground and 17 of the top 19.

Relying on stats rather than paying attention to what the players are doing will always provide an unrealistic impression of the game.

Our defensive pressure forced Collingwood to use lots of dinky sideways or backwards kicks.  Most of the possessions racked up by the Collingwood players were inconsequential.  With an ounce of luck, we would have won the game even though we had less of the ball.  What we did do is win the clearances and and apply pressure all over the ground.  A little more system inside 50 and going inside 50 and we would have been easy winners - and that's with a team of kids playing against last year's grand finalists.

[Gointocarlton]

One comment: There seemed to be a breeze blowing to the end that we kicked to in the last quarter. It was the scoring end - but the commentators never seemed to pick up on it.

I also thought the wind was making the ball drop short and we were struggling to read it. I think it was when we were kicking to the right of screen.