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03-18-2021, 11:53 AM
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(03-18-2021, 11:27 AM)PaulP link Wrote:O'Brien spent most of last year playing nothing matches in the boonies. He comes up against the reigning premiers, and is found wanting. Maybe he should be given a string of senior matches to get up to speed ? He was never going to come in and look up to speed.
Sorry PaulP, I don't know that he has any more gears to go faster.
My TV was lucky to survive that howler in the last quarter. I thought I was watching an Under 16 match for a few seconds there......
And someone please tell Harry to stop and kick a drop punt every time he marks the ball. He should have kicked 5 tonight.
This is now the longest premiership drought in the history of the Carlton Football Club - more evidence of climate change?
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In all,
we ran out of gas (why is that Mr Russell?)
made some silly errors around goal
the reigning premiers haven't lost momentum
Until the last junk time goals, we held our own despite a relentless attack. We were there abouts around the ball. The difference in the end was our slower developing kids vs seasoned hard running mids.
Not all is lost. We have plenty of growth if we had a bit of luck with injuries, and with Williams to come in.
Amazing to witness the free kick differential ?
Well done to OMac
Speedy recovery to Jack
Coming together is the beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
Henry Ford.
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Richmond have nearly won more finals in the last four years than we have won H&A games (stats not checked!). They are the best.
I was expecting an 8-10 goal loss. Compared against the last few years, it was a much better effort. We could have rolled over after they kicked the last four goals of the second quarter - but we came out and got back to it in the third. Of course, the question remains, why we allow the run ons.
We got within 4 points in the last - don't think that Richmond were that comfortable.
Did we have our chances? Yes. Did we take them? Mostly not. Is everyone sick of it? Yes. Is our depth great enough? No. Is it better than it was? Yes. If we play like we did tonight, will we win more games than last season? I would like to think so.
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Whilst it was an “ honourable loss” the lack of midfield pressure outside Cripps, Curnow and Walsh remains a problem and we desperately need one or more of Setterfield, Dow or SPS to fill the void
Additionally, LOB, Murphy, Casboult, Jones weren’t good enough in some crucial moments tonight and at this level that can mean the different between a win and a loss
The good news is that we will be better far better off with Martin, Williams, McGovern next week (and Dekoning soon) and I’d expect one of Cunningham or Stocker to come in also.
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Shawny and I saw it ... that weak as Pi55 seton leaving the chasing to Saad for the man he let get away.
We should have traded him in 2020. He just doesn't care. Disgraceful. Get rid of him and it'll be a guaranteed improvement. Too harsh? Nup.
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So close yet so far ?? we need a new forwards coach #bringfevbacktocarlton
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Williams might have been the difference.
All negatives aside, we carried a few passengers and could have won that.
Lots to like, a bit to work on, and considering the sheer number of outs, we did ok. We could have won had we converted better.
On the umpires, restricting forwards run at the footy has been a free kick my whole life, particularly when a free player picks off intercept marks all night.
Lots of illegal stuff by the tigers which they get away with.
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For me the big difference that showed up tonight is this....
Richmond are an elite side who over the last couple of years have stayed reasonably settled and developed a great understanding of each others abilities. The click extremely well as a team.
We are not yet a settled side.
We added a few new players who played their first games for the club tonight and they showed a bit.
They'll only get better as they play more games together and with the team.
We have a couple more who will play in the next couple of weeks that will add a bit of class to the side. (Williams and Martin). Martin is still a relative newbie in terms of the 'team'.
We talk a lot about getting games into youngsters but a far more important aspect is getting games 'together'
That's when we'll see the real improvement
Some appalling umpire and player decisions would have made for a closer result had they not occurred...but we're used to that.
The umpiring we can't control, but we can certainly work on the players, and we have enough depth now that if they don't fix those brain fades and commitment issues up they'll struggle for a place.
Plenty of room for improvement as the season progresses and I suspect our last round team will be quite different in make-up to our Round 1 side
