AFL Rd 20 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood

[LordLucifer]

Where will we lose this one ??

At the selection table ...... nothing surer !!!

[kruddler]

Who in our backline will stop a 211 cm giant from marking in the forward line??
195  Weitering?
192  Kemp?
191  McGovern?
202  Young?
Cox can do 2 things quite well.....mark and kick straight. He's not an instinctive footballer. Young spoils well. Neither are great ruckmen. By having Young 'tag' Cox you cover your lack of height down back AND your second ruck dilemma. TDK plays better as top dog and Pittonet's lack of speed will be shown up against the Pies. Play McGovern up forward as your second tall  target.

Nobody has answered my question though.

Who plays 2nd key forward next to Charlie?
If Young is playing on Cox, when Cox is forward, TDK is in the ruck and Charlie is by himself up forward.

Playing Pitto allows TDK to play forward and give charlie a chopout.
You'd almost play both Young and Pitto as well as TDK and Charlie.
But if i was going to play just one of Young and Pitto, it'd be Pitto because that helps our forward line.

Think of it this way. If Charlie is our sole key forward, what would you do if you were Collingwood? Double/triple team him?!
Who will kick our goals otherwise??

To help drive that point home lets look at our top goal kickers for 2023.
1. Charlie - 61
2. McKay - 26 - injured
3. Owies - 17 - injured
4. Motlop - 16 - injured last week
5. Silvagni - 14 - injured
6. Durdin - 10 - injured
7. Cerra - 8 - Didn't play last week coming back from injury
8. Cottrell - 6
=9. Martin - 5 - Didn't play last week coming back from injury
=9. Cripps - 5 - Didn't play last week coming back from injury
=9. Docherty - 5

Thats our top 12 goalkickers for the year, 5 are not playing and 3 are a test.

We need TDK to play forward.
Thus, we need Pitto to play ruck.

Young vs Cox is another debate.

[Lods]

Nobody has answered my question though.

Who plays 2nd key forward next to Charlie?
If Young is playing on Cox, when Cox is forward, TDK is in the ruck and Charlie is by himself up forward.

Kemp....they won't be expecting that.   ;D
He plays the Silvagni role.

[Gointocarlton]

I'd bring Binns in.  It's all about run this week.

They'll slaughter a first gamer.

[kruddler]

Kemp....they won't be expecting that.   ;D
He plays the Silvagni role.

I think Kemp is =25th on our goal kicking list for 2023 with a grand total of 1 goal.

Yep. Wouldn't be expecting it, sure.
Not sure it'll actually help though.

[ElwoodBlues1]

They'll slaughter a first gamer.

Yep....look who goes through the  wings for the Pies. I would have played  Binns vs West Coast and given him a confidence building game.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Nobody has answered my question though.

Who plays 2nd key forward next to Charlie?
If Young is playing on Cox, when Cox is forward, TDK is in the ruck and Charlie is by himself up forward.

Playing Pitto allows TDK to play forward and give charlie a chopout.
You'd almost play both Young and Pitto as well as TDK and Charlie.
But if i was going to play just one of Young and Pitto, it'd be Pitto because that helps our forward line.

Think of it this way. If Charlie is our sole key forward, what would you do if you were Collingwood? Double/triple team him?!
Who will kick our goals otherwise??

To help drive that point home lets look at our top goal kickers for 2023.
1. Charlie - 61
2. McKay - 26 - injured
3. Owies - 17 - injured
4. Motlop - 16 - injured last week
5. Silvagni - 14 - injured
6. Durdin - 10 - injured
7. Cerra - 8 - Didn't play last week coming back from injury
8. Cottrell - 6
=9. Martin - 5 - Didn't play last week coming back from injury
=9. Cripps - 5 - Didn't play last week coming back from injury
=9. Docherty - 5

Thats our top 12 goalkickers for the year, 5 are not playing and 3 are a test.

We need TDK to play forward.
Thus, we need Pitto to play ruck.

Young vs Cox is another debate.

McGovern ...

[WASurfer]

I'd be playing Pitto this week and letting TDK play a bit more forward....which sounds strange given how good his last few weeks have been. But with no other tall forwards, it'll allow Pies to double team Charlie with Moore and Howe making it pretty tough for us to find some scoring options.

Cripps is touch and go unfortunately.

But you never know.

[Lods]

I think Kemp is =25th on our goal kicking list for 2023 with a grand total of 1 goal.

Yep. Wouldn't be expecting it, sure.
Not sure it'll actually help though.

Opportunities??
12th in the whole AFL for average marks per game.
At the very least he would require a minder and take a bit of attention away from Curnow...and maybe have a bearing on Moore's intercept marking.

[LP]

Leaders have got to lead.

If Charlie is solo, then Cripps or Weiters can float forward!