AFL Rd 4 2022 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Gold Coast

[northernblue]

Durdin has Eddies dancing feet.

[LP]

But having someone like Durdin who can can convert half chances is also vital. 

One of the big problems we had last game after Qtr-time was that the Dawks cleaned up almost 100% of the ground ball in our F50. Durdin wasn't that effective on his lonesome, and Owies and Fisher were being dragged up the ground to compete on the Wing or HBF.

The cause was a loss of midfield run, those HFFs and SFs end up out of position chasing up the field and the ball ends up being kicked over their heads to the marking targets. The SFs end up running back and forth with the ball sailing overhead. We needed some structural change that would allow the SFs and HFFs to stay home. In effect the lost intercept marking of Gov and Martin really hurt us when our Mids were not getting the clearances.

[Gointocarlton]

Durdin has Eddies dancing feet.

Ill make a rather bold prediction and say Durds will surpass Eddie.

[Thryleon]

[member=153]LP[/member] Root cause of all of it, was shocking decision making when hitting targets.  There was multiple occasions, we kicked long to Harry with or without mates near the goal square, and it was 2 carlton players to about 6 hawthorn defenders.  This is why they cleared it so easily.  The little blokes were probably in the clear somewhere else, and this is why Jack hit the scoreboard so well last week.

Vision and decision making were the problems.  Not what any of the players were doing with their running power or work rate.  This is all a problem caused by a lack of composure and panic.  For some reason I thought to myself we should be in control of this game, yet for some reason we looked like we were rushing things. 

[Mav]

Not sure there were all that many ground balls for the small forwards to crumb. In Q1 Harry and Charlie were clunking them, so the front & squares were as useful as teets on a bull. After Q1, the talls ran out of gas a bit, so they were being outmarked by the defenders. They didn't need to take the mark: they just needed to bring the ball to ground but that didn't happen that much. Can't blame them much as they set up the win in Q1 and both Harry and Charlie have had injury interruptions in the preseason. Hopefully they get somewhere close to maximum fitness by September.

[LP]

Vision and decision making were the problems.  Not what any of the players were doing with their running power or work rate.  This is all a problem caused by a lack of composure and panic.  For some reason I thought to myself we should be in control of this game, yet for some reason we looked like we were rushing things.

Sitting at the game it was clear the team lost it's composure, looked flat and looked fatigued, even during the 1st-Qtr when we banged through a string of goals it was obvious we had relied on one trick with BigH, Charlie and Cripps jumping form behind or the side to clunk marks, none of them were in front.

Later the reasons behind those poor decisions were obvious. The skills were not as bad as some suggest, and the underlying opposition tactics were not addressed by our coaching panel. CJ basically ran freely out of our F50, and our Mids in an array of 3 or 4 jogged behind relying on Owies, Fisher, Setterfield and LoB to bridge the gap. The only joy we got was seeing BigH chase down Dawks a couple of times, I was hoping to see a De Koning chase but he also looked flat.

[kruddler]

Agree. I reckon Durds is the best of our 3 small forwards... his defensive work, speed and opportunism will be missed.

Eddie thought so too, thats why he passed his number on to him.

I thought Motlop would've been a monty for it, brotherhood and all, but Eddie REALLY rated Durdin. Now we can see why.

[northernblue]

Ill make a rather bold prediction and say Durds will surpass Eddie.

It'll be wonderful for him and us if he does, but its all down to luck (and his continuing hard work of course) but the point is that hes got "it"

[ElwoodBlues1]

Durdin appears to really have something, whomever recruited him has a clue.

What surprised me the most on the day was CJ.  Last time we played the whorks I came away with the opinion that he was as clueless a player as I've seen,  maybe if we made him defend we might have seen a few more mistakes and panicky stuff.

Durdin showed ability when he played SANFL seniors and was highly regarded by the Crows but they decided on Stephen Rowe's kid instead....I'd be giving credit to Nick Austin who likes his SANFL players...

[Baggers]

Martin and Saad in, Boyd and Durdin (Covid protocols) out.