AFL Rd 10 2023 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood

[ElwoodBlues1]

I get fans think based on your posts you (@Kruddler) are a Pitto booster, but I realise what you are really doing is protecting SoJ. You need Pitto 1st rucking because if TDK plays and rests forward it won't be Cripps getting the chop from the F50 extra tall role, we can all see it coming, SoJ gets squeezed out, this is the way.

If we do what fans want and put a bullet in McGovern to keep SoJ via some weird and speculative reshuffle , we might was well shoot our own foot.

FFS, now some are calling for Weiters head, and SoJ just roles on unsupervised! :o

Personally I hope I'm wrong, I hope SoJ sticks fat at Carlton, comes good and enables us to rub his old man's face in it, but it's a wish not an expectation!

Jack probably needs a rest in the twos as he is completely out of form and McGovern needs a lesson in attacking the ball properly in the twos. Problem is as always we dont have a lot of depth with players knocking down the door in the twos and imho the main one is Kemp to replace McGovern. Id include TDK this week which probably means Jack having to kick the dew of the ground in the twos. I havent understood the MC's logic all year but I think we are at the stage where they might have to be a bit more lateral with their thinking and more inventive with selections in consultation with the coach who deserves better than what the players are giving as a collective.

[kruddler]

From the Heraldsun

So here is the weirdest stat in footy. Carlton ranks No. 1 in the comp for contested possession differential but only 11th for clearance differential.

The Blues are third in the comp for winning first possession from a stoppage but are 16th from converting it into a pure clearance.

So the Blues win the first possession more than nearly every other team but can’t turn it into a clearance.

A fact that shouldn't surprise many people (except for old tin foil).

Pittonet gives us first use more than just about anyone.
Of course we have a contested bull who can win the 50-50 ball about as good as anyone too.
Our other mids are no slouches in this area either, so it stands to reason we manage to get our hands on it first pretty quickly.

The problem arises that we are under so much pressure, and lack significant leg speed to break away, and are such poor kicks that we struggle to capitalise on this.

Again, this shouldn't be such a shock.
Do we want Cripps kicking the ball? No.
Do we want Ed kicking the ball? No.
Can we kick to advantage of our players? No.

Tada, stats say exactly this.

[BluePhantom]

:o

https://youtu.be/TC-o_YRgBp4

[BlackRooster]

Pathetic effort. Pies toyed with us and then took the foot off the gas.

Totally agree. It looked to me that the Collingwood players treated us with contempt and new that they had to do nothing to win. Why because they we would give the ball straight back to them when we had it and we would kick it long in to the forward line to our best player (sorry) their best defender in Moore.

[madbluboy]

https://omny.fm/shows/drive-with-tom-ell...n-that-cau

[PaulP]

https://omny.fm/shows/drive-with-tom-ell...n-that-cau

Sigh. The worst type of supporter. Please get a refund, cancel your membership, and go support another club. it's only football, and your health is way more important than that.

[Gointocarlton]

https://omny.fm/shows/drive-with-tom-ell...n-that-cau

Good ol Snapper.

[Gointocarlton]

Sigh. The worst type of supporter. Please get a refund, cancel your membership, and go support another club. it's only football, and your health is way more important than that.

Its not the simple, footy is everything to some people. People are passionate, people are sick of the lack of success. Its not how I'd react but I get it.

[PaulP]

Its not the simple, footy is everything to some people. People are passionate, people are sick of the lack of success. Its not how I'd react but I get it.

No doubt there are different perspectives. Some say he's passionate. I say he's ill informed, presumptuous and irrational, and endangering his own health. It's like I said earlier - some folks seem to be willing participants in an abusive relationship.

[ElwoodBlues1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGP8awxPQcA