AFL Rd 4 2023 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne

[pinot]

I think it's a good thing we are not flying yet - we want to start revving up in July.

[Professer E]

I'm not seeing a finals side here, we won but some glaring and obvious issues reared their ugly head again. I'm not liking what I'm seeing.

Poor ball movement and amateurish forward play. Thank the Lord for Saad. Sloppy goal kicking from Harry (nothing has changed).

Weak under physical pressure.  Really weak.
Poor skills and decision making under pressure. Fumbling and turnovers.
Effort still appears to be conditional
A long list of players playing poor football. TdK, George...when are they going to get going?

We need to keep turning the list over.  It's clear that Cowan and Hollands have outstripped established players. 

Need to move on from LoB, Fisher (Fogarty as EB suggests), even JSoS.  If you can't do the job, give someone else an opportunity.  If we, by some miracle make finals, there's clearly some weak links  that won't cope with those kind of games.

[Gointocarlton]

I’m happy. At halftime i was ready to stick my foot thru the tv then an hour later I couldn’t be happier.
Still not 100 % convinced but we are doing what we have to do which is what we couldn’t do in previous years.
Time will tell but if we can improve even 10% we should be a formidable opponent later in the year when the whips are cracking. 
Go blues.

I'm with you Shawny, I thought some of our blokes were embarrassing in the first half. Again, our best is awesome, our worst is well, bad. We can't seem to click as a unit, even in the third, many went quite. A wins a win, should have been a lot more, c'est la vie.

[townsendcalling]

Radio reporting Gov is a corkie. All good.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Said pregame the two key defenders for Nth missing would cost them and Charlie and Harry would have a good day.
Our midfield was below it's best and we had a few passengers but a win is a win and beating any Clarko team is always satisfying.
Need someone to smack Zurhaar though, just thinks he can whack our blokes and get away with it every game.

[pinot]

Lob, Fisher, Honey VFL next week.

[laj]

I hope they were being conservative with Gov, he is vital to us.

Had a corkie. No problem.

[LoveNavy]

Definitely room for improvement, especially with the dwindling lead, and our poor % Hopefully we add the "foot on throat" layer soon.

Cracking 100 was a good sign. As was having 7 goalkicker and the talls dominating. The gap between Harry's best and worse keeps us all intrigued ? Mind you 14 marks and 4 goals is a good return.

Our defence is the shining light IMO. Weiters, Young, Saad, Newman, McG amassed 42 marks.

Seems that without being convincing, and with many injuries, we find ways to win. I'm thankful we didn't let that turn into another heart stopper.

[LygonStreetLimbo]

“Harry and the Brain Fades” sounds like a great name for a band!
Why not mark 10m out then play on and miss everything

[LoveNavy]

31 pts from kick ins (coast to coast) in the second half by us, the most by any team in the history of stats.

That's fantastic. We all know some of the undesirable records we smashed a couple of years back ?