AFL Rd 6 2022 Post Game Permutations Carlton vs Fremantle

[Gointocarlton]

Our avenue to goal looked like how I get from the tee to the pin playing golf. Lots of zig zagging and making it up as I go. They looked like Tiger Woods by comparison. Yes we won all a lot of the stats, just could not get it on the scoreboard.
Too much left to too few again. The selection of players like Boyd, Setterfield and Newnes to name a few staggers me.
Oh well, onto next week. Hope we can eek out a win, Pitto looks like he is going to miss many weeks which means more of TDK giving us next to zero use. I wonder if they give Mirkov a crack.

[Gointocarlton]

Completely outplayed and we were never really in that contest.

Parks, Newnes, Cottrell & Boyd are way out of their depth, Williams looks like being a bust and Fisher doesn’t have the body strength to play midfield. Our leg speed is a huge issue and all of
Williamson, Dow & Philip can help that in the short term.

In the longer term, McGovern, Honey, Cunningham & Dow will provide the leg speed and class that we need.

Three of those are injured so I get that, why isnt Dow in the side?

[Gointocarlton]

Parks and Boyd are duds and I'm not sure why we knocked ourselves out to get Setterfield. Young shows potential and is a handy player to have on the list but its not like having Jones down back and thats the reality.
Freo are an ugly team to play against and of course losing your main counter in Pittonet to their main driving force in Darcy was about the worst thing that could have happened. You add in Harry copping a knock which rendered him useless and Jack being out it just all added up to Freo winning. Cant stand Longmuir and I hope we play Freo in the finals and give them the "old heave ho" in straights sets out of the finals and back to mediocrity where they belong.

I wouldnt be talking finals just yet EB, with performances like that (injuries aside), we are a way off.

[capcom]

The finals (in Carlton's case) is never assured until we know it is; i.e. the last seconds of the last round of home and away. 

[Baggers]

I strongly suspect that our side of last year, with the loss of key personnel during the game (Pitto/H), against the same opposition would have been obliterated. We lost but didn't drop our bundle. Effort remained.

I really don't think it's any more complicated than we are a WIP and our bottom 4-6 last night were just not up to the requirements of our game plan. The efforts of our best 6-8 last night kept us in the contest.

Hopefully we see Stocker, Willo and Carroll getting a call up (all very good in our win over Werribee), along with the return of Kennedy and JSOS. On shaky ground would be Parks, Fisher, Boyd, Owies, Newnes & Setterfield. If H doesn't come up then perhaps Kemp comes in. But making so many changes seems to be against the DNA of our match committee.

[Mav]

Losing 2 out of the last 3 games with margins of around 30 points means Voss will be able to make several changes. I'd imagine the players would be surprised if he doesn't pull the trigger.

[BluePhantom]

Is their ruckman in trouble with the MRP for his blatant charging at Pitto?
I thought the ump is supposed to look at the ruckman to see they have eyes for the ball.
Was a dog act.

[Mav]

Tough gig being a ruckman. At worst, it might have been a free. Lightyears away from being a report.

It's nothing like cleaning someone up with a roundarm punch to the head. The guy throwing the punch rarely gets hurt in that scenario. It's a bit of a cowardly thing to do. But when ruckmen charge each other with knees up, it's hard to say who'll cop the brunt of that contact if knees collide. It's more like 2 players clashing heads in a marking contest. It's hard to initiate contact in a way that'll ensure you won't get hurt yourself. Darcy could easily have ended up with a knee injury.

[31Tommys_barber]

It’s hard to believe our best team includes Boyd, Newnes, Cottrell and Parks. I know we have injuries but when I see Stocker, Dow Carroll even Kemp, Williamson and Motlop in the two’s I find it surprising.
Is Voss and the other new coaches giving players three or four games to see what they can do or are those players in the two’s having Russell’s training blocks before they can be selected?
Fisher is not a natural small forward if no spot in midfield bye bye has had lots of chances
Are we really paying $1m a year to Williams? Don’t think he’s been in our best players in the two years he’s been here. At least Martin shows glimpses of talent occasionally, Williams has shown he can receive a handball and butcher the kick. Setterfield has talent but no heart 50 games played should be better by now but in the O’Brien mould runs to where the ball was.
I was expecting a loss after living in Perth over summer blind Freddie could see Freo are building nicely don’t think they have better players than us just more spirit and confidence. They are without without Fyffe and going well imagine if we had no Cripps or Walsh for the same length of time
Early days for Voss and his coaching team but can see a cleanout coming end of the season. Mid table for us

[shawny]

Thought TDK battled on ok when Pitto went down. Our mids still got a lot of the ball with our starting 4 mids getting 30-37 touches between them - they had no player over 27. 

Our forwards were soundly beaten by their backs and their small forwards as usual were damaging kicked 7 goals between 3 of them against 1 from our smalls. 

I'm not in the camp we cant win without Pitto as we now have a strong midfield group who will win enough of there own ball. Last week we had Pit and he was against a first gamer and we only scrapped over the line. 

Next 2 weeks are both must wins if we are wanting to play finals. No excuses these are 2 lower raked teams that while no game is easy we still must account for them.