Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 7: Carlton vs. North Melbourne

[JonHenry]

People bag sMurph, but several times at the weekend he was the only one left chasing the Norp SFs into the goal-square, nary a Carlton kid could be seen!

He simply does NOT chase.
He jogs along trying to look interested.
He jogs off the contest continuously trying to look like he cares, but not ever getting close enough to impact it.

He gets enough outside ball to look like he is important but actually does SFA.

[madbluboy]

Ziebell dived, there was so little in it the commentators nominated him for an Oscar!

It was a blatant push in the back for no reason. Free kick very day of the week.

Stupid play from a veteran and it wasn't like he intimidated anyone. Jack wasn't exactly looking over his shoulder worried about where Marc Murphy is.

[LP]

Yes, by why do it at all?? We had a throw-in inside our 50metre zone. Just p!$$ poor.

Why pay it, the hand in the back and dive happens dozens of times a game and is neither rewarded or penalised?

[madbluboy]

He simply does NOT chase.
He jogs along trying to look interested.
He jogs off the contest continuously trying to look like he cares, but not ever getting close enough to impact it.

He gets enough outside ball to look like he is important but actually does SFA.

Andy Maher had a crack at Murphy on the radio. "Not what you want to see from a leader" he said.

[LP]

Andy Maher had a crack at Murphy on the radio. "Not what you want to see from a leader" he said.

You know I won't buy into a debate about Maher. As much as he loves Carlton and we love him for that, he knows exactly that the haters sign his paycheck, and he openly buys into those politics far more willingly than the reticence he shows when it's time to defend the Navy Blue!

At least Pang bites back, Maher well what can I say he's a Benny Hill sidekick!

Sticking Fat means something, and not doing so has a real world effect.

btw., I do not expect Maher to change, he won't he's a nice bloke, but he works in a industry surrounded by Clark Kents!

[Barbs]

He simply does NOT chase.
He jogs along trying to look interested.
He jogs off the contest continuously trying to look like he cares, but not ever getting close enough to impact it.

He gets enough outside ball to look like he is important but actually does SFA.

These traits are broader than Murphy though.
We have had many players performing with insufficient intensity that leads to a lack of pressure on the opposition.
It’s a systemic issue that to me suggests we need some form of change in our coaching panel. If not Bolton then others must go.
You can already see the rot setting in with Dow, O’Brien, Cuningham and SPS who all have above average speed but lack the killer instinct to use it to hunt down the opposition ball carrier and hit them with bone crunching tackles.

[JonHenry]

These traits are broader than Murphy though.
We have had many players performing with insufficient intensity that leads to a lack of pressure on the opposition.
It’s a systemic issue that to me suggests we need some form of change in our coaching panel. If not Bolton then others must go.
You can already see the rot setting in with Dow, O’Brien, Cuningham and SPS who all have above average speed but lack the killer instinct to use it to hunt down the opposition ball carrier and hit them with bone crunching tackles.

But where do you think they learn the behaviour from Barbs?

Senior players are responsible for setting standard like these.
I have seen Murphy do this for years, as did Gibbs.
Then some clowns would say Judd doesn't chase after he just won his 15th contested possession, ala P Cripps.

If you are an outside player, you need to tackle and apply pressure and run hard both ways.

Jogging along a wing and getting a few cheapies every  week doesn't cut it.

[PaulP]

But where do you think they learn the behaviour from Barbs?

Senior players are responsible for setting standard like these.
I have seen Murphy do this for years, as did Gibbs.
Then some clowns would say Judd doesn't chase after he just won his 15th contested possession, ala P Cripps.

If you are an outside player, you need to tackle and apply pressure and run hard both ways.

Jogging along a wing and getting a few cheapies every  week doesn't cut it.

Why is it that astute observers on here notice this, but successive coaches do not ? And if coaches do notice it, why has one coach after another let him get away with it ?

[flyboy77]

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/we-w...51kh7.html

[BluePhantom]

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/we-w...51kh7.html

And...talk is cheap thingy.
Better not be a bruise free training session all week!