Pre game perturbations: AFL 2021 Rd 12: Carlton vs West Coast

[pew2]

we are expected to win /expectations carry's a lot of weight and good side take that pressure and perform or rise to occasion . No excuses this week.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Let the cobblers cobble huh? Also interesting is how far the input from players at Rich has spread. I hear that lesser likes such as Castagna and Edwards have great footy brains and make alot of calls/changes on field. Again, credit to Dimma for instilling this liberty on them. I do see Cripps attempting to direct traffic and call plays at bounces and stoppages. I see SOS And Eddie doing it abit in the fwd line, but thats about it. Most of our blokes are like hatchlings in a nest looking up beak open waiting for a feed.

Matty Wright was a big voice for us on the field especially organizing the forwards as was Daisy, when you look at what Wright gave us and what we have got out of some of these mega recruits it makes me angry. Big dollars and draft picks but a delisted free agent like Wright gave us way more and most weeks was a decent contributor.

[WASurfer]

EB....I'd put Newnes in that category too. Cost us nothing and was solid, without being spectacular, in pretty much every game last year.

[ElwoodBlues1]

EB....I'd put Newnes in that category too. Cost us nothing and was solid, without being spectacular, in pretty much every game last year.

Yep..I'm not anti Newnes and Kruds boy has given us what we paid for, I think he is good for 15-20 possies each week and the odd goal and is/was holding the fort on the wing until we get something better.
Krud did suggest we dont really have any specialist wingers that have shown anything and its a position we need to fill....some merit in that call. I like a tall winger  on one wing and a pacy one on the other.
As I said in a previous post we seem to throw failed or surplus players from other positions on the wing and maybe we have undervalued those spots as Krud suggested.
Prof E made a good call on Lachie Sholl from the Crows when he was up for grabs but we ignored him and he is exactly what we needed on one wing with pace, good kicking and he can find plenty of ball, real shame seeing him in Crows Colours given he had a connection to us via his father being an ex player.

[WASurfer]

I had Setterfield pegged as a tall wingman type but he's shown nothing really IMO. I'd have Newnes in the team before him. I wonder if they think Boyd is an option on the wing....which would likely mean LOB has had his papers stamped too. We seem to have an over-supply of small/medium half back types on the books.....Saad, Docherty, Newman, Williamson....Docherty has been okay when playing up the field a bit but his turnovers in recent weeks have killed us. I look at someone like Andrew Gaff and see a specialist wingman type.....good user of the ball and plays between the arcs.

Newnes hit the scoreboard pretty regularly too last year.

[LP]

I had Setterfield pegged as a tall wingman type but he's shown nothing really IMO. I'd have Newnes in the team before him.

Setterfield is an inside mid, his best games have all been as a mid, until Ed retires we probably won't see much of that again.

[Gointocarlton]

we are expected to win /expectations carry's a lot of weight and good side take that pressure and perform or rise to occasion . No excuses this week.

There will be excuses alright.

[Gointocarlton]

Matty Wright was a big voice for us on the field especially organizing the forwards as was Daisy, when you look at what Wright gave us and what we have got out of some of these mega recruits it makes me angry. Big dollars and draft picks but a delisted free agent like Wright gave us way more and most weeks was a decent contributor.

Exactly, hence my "lesser likes" comment earlier. Big dollars can sometimes buy you big problems.

[Gointocarlton]

Setterfield is an inside mid, his best games have all been as a mid, until Ed retires we probably won't see much of that again.

Lol

[Blue Moon]

Looking at their side they are not overly tall either front or back. Can't see the point of playing Casboult. I would be choosing Setterfield, Fisher, Fogarty and Dow, with Murphy on the bench. Settrefield is interesting. I think that if they could get the mid-field balance right he would take a lot of pressure of Cripps. Cripps has certainly played better since Setterfield returned. Might only be a coincident. I didn't mind Casboult playing down back as I thought he could allow Jones in particular to peal off and become an intercept player. Unfortunately Casboult really didn't get in the game and I am not sure there is a spot for him We haven't really improved in the second half of a season for a long time. A win against the eagles would be good start of changing that. They have a pretty good midfield so if we can match them in there and slow their entries into the forward line then we have a good chance to win. I actually like our side this week. I would like to see Kennedy, SPS and O'Brien in there as well.