AFL Rd 6 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs St. Kilda

[Mav]

Don’t jump too early. Saad has 10 days to come up and he was benched as a precaution with hamstring tightness when the game was lost with 15 minutes to go.

[tonyo]

I'm tired of hearing all the reasons why other teams will come out against us on a mission.

When do we come out snarling and show someone else how tough and committed we are?

Surely after last Thursday's showing we need to find some hunger and bring it on....?!  
Or perhaps we're not capable?

[WASurfer]

Upside is that surely we couldn't play as bad as that first 20 minutes again? In those first 10 games last year it was our midfield that was dominating....winning contested possessions....hitting targets and the scoreboard. That seems to have disappeared this year. Walsh will be better for that first game under his belt.

Saints will be forced to play Membrey now with Camanitti surely to cop at least one week. But Ross Lyon likes a scrap and is back to his old ways of "if we hold the opposition to 8 goals and kick 9 ourselves, we win".....expect it to be messy with Saints players dropping back to make it hard for Harry and Charlie.

We need our smaller forwards to step up this week. Hopefully McGovern gets up along with Pittonet.

[madbluboy]

Membrey usually destroys us.

[Mav]

Yep, it didn’t take Lyon long to show that he’ll always be defence-first. It doesn’t matter that rule changes favour attacking play and attacking teams like the Pies prosper, he’ll always be the lockdown guy. Thank God we didn’t chase him. I guess winning ugly might make it easier for fans to endure the grind but Lyon’s antics in the post-game press conference don’t quite make up for the lack of spectacle.

Last year we were stoppage bulls but we seem to have lost that strength because we’re concentrating more on defending the other team’s transition. As the commentators have noted on their telestrators, our mids fall back goalside at stoppages when we don’t immediately win possession but our opposition tends to win the game of British Bulldog by moving the ball laterally until they find an open runner. Surely there has to be a better way …

[LP]

Membrey usually destroys us.

Yes much like Stringer, we have nobody the right size with enough pace to go with those fast mid-sized forwards.

Which makes it critical for our midfield to win and stop the easy entries into the opposition F50.

[Mav]

Is this a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency moment justifying naming Dow to give us some speed out of the centre bounce?

[pinot]

Is this a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency moment justifying naming Dow to give us some speed out of the centre bounce?

If he chase and tackles - absolutely.

[WASurfer]

Dow in, possibly for Hewett who has been outta form since he came back into the side.

If Saad and McGovern don't get up, then Plowman probably stays in and one of Cincotta or Kemp come in....possibly both.

Surely Honey goes out.

[townsendcalling]

..      and potentially Mirkov.

If you think DeKoning got 'ragdolled' last week, triple it if they decide to play Mircov. He got 60 hits out against midgets in the twos last week and still did nothing around the ground.  Pencil in for 2024 at the earliest!!