AFL Rd 17 2022 Post Game Postulations Carlton vs West Coast

[madbluboy]

After a rusty start last week it was nice to see Cerra back doing what he does best, distributing.

Attended 14 centre bounces. Last week he attended zero. 

[LP]

I can't remember the last time Saad was as quiet as this, but I guess it didn't get down there in the 1st and last quarters. Still, our small defenders did a great job at smothering the Weagles' small forwards.

Such are opposition tactics.

I don't think Saad was quiet as much as Wet Toast dragged him up the field to keep him away from the fall of the ball, he seemed to spend all day turning to run back under the footy to get back to the contest. It didn't really work, because I thought Doc and Newman, were pretty dominant and well supported by Plowman and Weiters coming off their direct opponents. Cottrell also ran deep to help out at both ends. Voss would probably be happy in this regard.

I thought Motlop was better this week, but I still can't see Motlop or Honey holding Owies out if we can get him fit. If I had to make one criticism we did not make enough of a lot of ground ball opportunities inside our F50, for that reason Owies must come back in.

When the pressure was on I thought the biggest influence on the game was our panic, we failed to give off the footy multiple times and it turned certain scores into opposition rebounds which let Wet Toast back into the game. We just need to stay calm and do the basics.

I didn't see the midfield as being dominant for us, for me excluding a short period in the 2nd Qtr it was a nil-all draw in there which to me is a TDK / SoJ win. Most of the genuine scoring came from turnovers or stoppages in general play, Doc was pretty good today, so I probably should have given him votes.

[ElwoodBlues1]

I liked Saads game and it shows why is he is such a good footballer that he could sacrifice his own game to concentrate on defending the likes of the dangerous Ryan and Rioli.
Been value for dollar has Saad which is more than I can say for a few other notable signings and if the AA panel dont select him in the final 22 then they dont have a clue...

[cookie2]

I thought there was a lot of love from our boys for Samo after the game.

[ElwoodBlues1]

I thought there was a lot of love from our boys for Samo after the game.

He did help us out with a few turnovers and non chases so we probably owed him.....

[Mav]

[quote author=Inboltswetrust on June 17, 2022, 10:03:20 am]
My final comment will piss people off, but i am happy to revisit and requote at the end of the year for those who are going to abuse me now.  Here it is:  "We will not make finals in 2022" after losing this pathetic game to Richmond.  I'm serious.  We need 4 more wins.  Where are they coming from ?  Maybe WC is one.  Maybe.  Adelaide?  Good luck with that on their ground.  Rest of them... doubtful.    We had an easy draw and bathed in the glory. 

2 more to go.[/quote]
Yep, after the Geelong game we have Adelaide and the Giants. Win those and we’re finals bound. Even just 1 more win might see us through if we protect our percentage.

St Kilda is 2 games behind us while WB, PA & GC are 3 games behind with only 6 games to go. We have a better percentage than all of them, so you can add another game to our lead. (Yes, it’s always possible that 100 point wins or losses might change that, but banking on bridging the percentage gap is usually wishful thinking as it would be if we dreamed of catching up with Brisbane’s percentage).

Let’s give us just 1 more win for the year but assume our percentage will stay above the 4 chasers. Then St Kilda would need to win 4 of its remaining 6 while WB, PA & GC would need to win 5 of their upcoming games to get ahead of us. They may all fall short as they face top 8 sides or each other:

StK: Dogs, Cats, Lions, Swans (bearing in mind they’ve won only 1 out of their last 5, being last week’s debacle?)
WB: Saints, Dees, Cats, Freo
PA: Dees, Cats, Pies, Tigers
GC: Bombers, Lions, Cats.

There’s a fair chance those 4 teams will find it hard to gain traction.

[WASurfer]

Hewett is amazing to watch. He's got that very low centre of gravity by the looks...can turn and twist and hardly ever loses his feet or gets caught with it. He's been an amazing pick up for us.

[Mav]

It was a win-win for Carlton and Sydney. Talking to Sydney fans, they aren’t sooking that Hewett left. They want to see Warner developed in the midfield as they see him as the next big thing. In that sense, Hewett was a list clogger. Apart from that issue, whether because of their midfield setup or a lack of imagination, the Swans played him as a lockdown tagger and Hewett obviously felt that he had more to offer.

Picking up Hewett has been a similar sort of thing to the Suns picking up Levi Casboult. Suns fans (if there is such a thing) would be celebrating our stupidity in letting him go. Although he would have been a welcome backup after Pitt went down, we needed to get time into Charlie, H, JSOS & TdK in the F50 so Levi was worth more to the Suns than he was to us.

[pew2]

we beat a bottom side good but what concerns me we still go long bomb straight to H and C against top side they will defend better and we turn the ball over ,need to share load to take next step

[DJC]

we beat a bottom side good but what concerns me we still go long bomb straight to H and C against top side they will defend better and we turn the ball over ,need to share load to take next step

When your two key forwards are clunking almost everything that comes their way and our crumbers are feasting on the balls that come to ground, why wouldn't you bomb the ball long?

In fact, most of our inside 50s were honouring leads or chip kicks to a player in space and I think that we have the mix pretty right.