Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 11: Carlton vs. the Drug Cheats

[cookie2]

Big blunder by SOS in the off season  imo - could've taken Barlow or a Jye Bolton type or even a Tom Bell type to help at the coal face....but chose more scrawny kids who are a mile off the pace....

Perhaps SOS is more the problem rather than the panacea?

Who decides the list profile?? Is that purely a SOS decision?

[LoveNavy]

Who decides the list profile?? Is that purely a SOS decision?

Good question.
As I recall our public comment pre draft was that we'd look to add to the middle age bracket. 21- 25 or thereabouts. I think Gibbons was a good choice and fits the profile. Then we draft young Cottrell. The latter being a very young underdeveloped project player. I can't follow I'm afraid.

[Barbs]

Big blunder by SOS in the off season  imo - could've taken Barlow or a Jye Bolton type or even a Tom Bell type to help at the coal face....but chose more scrawny kids who are a mile off the pace....

Perhaps SOS is more the problem rather than the panacea?

I think SOS has In general done well accumulating talent, but have to agree that he dropped the ball on the decisions to recruit Cotrell and O’Dwyer. And not choosing a second player at the mid year draft.

[Blue Moon]

One of our problems today, and there were many, is that we had 12 players coming out of the past four drafts and yet it was the more experienced players who let us down. Newman, Fasolo and Lang were disastrous, while Cripps was well held, whereas Heppel, Hurley and Hooker were very good. Players aged 25 to 30 is our major weakness and until we get more good players in that age range we are going to struggle.

[crashlander]

The guy that beat Cripps has played 2 games.

The guy that 'beat Cripps' was shepherding him out of the contest and running into him and grabbing him as soon as the ball was bounced. Cripps could have got a free kick from every single centre bounce and did not: the Umpires were not even looking. Their attention was on the contest that Cripps was not allowed to get to.

[Thryleon]

We lost the game when kreuzer was lining up for goal and thanked it on the full in the second quarter.

Didn't get near scoring for two quarters after this.

Soul destroying stuff.  He was within 30 of goal.

[Micky0]

^ disagree, they weren’t up before then at all.

[Thryleon]

^ disagree, they weren’t up before then at all.

Agree to disagree.

Come the moment come the man.

We've been blaming casboult for this stuff for years, about time Humphrey cost us a game through other ways rather than not breaking down.

[Professer E]

Crash,  when is the club going to man up and query the treatment Cripps gets?  FMD,  if it was a tigers it pussies player you'd hear no end of squealing.

[Mantis]

Crash,  when is the club going to man up and query the treatment Cripps gets?  FMD,  if it was a tigers it pussies player you'd hear no end of squealing.

I watched the entire game and he was given very close attention after the first quarter. At least 10 or more times he was held by his jumper or arm off the ball. His opponents at times were watching him and not the ball at all. I gave up in the last quarter. Made no difference by then. He should have approached the umpires at half time to ask for a please explain. I am certain as a captain it is not outside the rules to question what is been given too much attention. Tagging is one thing. Holding an opponent off the ball is a holding the man or illegal shepard. Free kick. If I saw at least 10, there must have been more that were outside the view of the cameras. He should have spoke up. I have seen captains do it before. Joel Selwood has.