AFL Rd 21 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs St. Kilda

[DJC]

Fremantle and Gold Coast were above us on the ladder too.

If we bring the same intensity and effort, the Saints won't know what hit them.

[northernblue]

Fremantle and Gold Coast were above us on the ladder too.

If we bring the same intensity and effort, the Saints won't know what hit them.

Ross (and everyone else) has now had 6 weeks to look at what we do well, lots of interesting footy coming up.

[Baggers]

I have absolutely no doubt that Ross will be aiming to 'get in our grill' with borderline legal tactics. He'll attempt to unsettle and distract us with physicality. It'll be a good test for us.

This mob have the irritating ability to rain on our parade... however, all we need do is maintain a steely resolve to hunt them, no matter what tactics they try. And that will keep the scoreboard ticking over in our favour.

[madbluboy]

We will smash them.

[rocky]

Really, really, really hate this mob and the fact that we've been their bunnies/bitches for so long intensifies my hatred exponentially. Watched them against the Dawks and they are KRAAP. Well they both are, but if we manage to find a way to lose against these knobs again I may not recover. Come on baggers, get it done!

[blueianh]

Their first quarter was awesome and they finished strong, but when all is said and done they beat the Hawks who are cellar dwellars.  A return for Membrey appears likely and if King and Hill get up they will  be greatly improved assuming they are fully fit.  However they seem to have lost Jones and perhaps Sharman, so its not all one way traffic from the medical room.  Caminiti is on report but I don't think it warrants a week - looked worse on first blush - but who knows with the lottery that is the AFL suspensions system.  All in all I think we should have their measure absent any unforseen player unavailability.   

[LP]

It's amazing when you get the basics correct how things fall into place.

Harry and Charlie have been pretty much bringing the pill to ground for the whole season, mark it or not they are rarely beaten. But Owies was in and out and Durdin and Motlop were getting where the pill wasn't, so we gained little advantage.

Cunningham and Martin come back, Fogarty comes in and all of a sudden things change massively. Add to that a bit of remedial homework for Motlop and all of a sudden despite Harry and Charlie actually starting to take more marks we've seen a huge boost in game influence from our smalls.

Where was this for the first half of 2023, if it's so obvious to fans, how can it be that it persisted for so long without being addressed by the players?

Stupidly the media start talking about Mosquito fleets, the reporters have cause and effect completely ar5e about!

[ElwoodBlues1]

We should hammer Stkilda, I get to see a few of their games courtesy of my daughters inlaws and its painful most games watching them play that Rossball style. Owens, Philipou, Wanganeen -Milera and Caminiti are good kids for the future and they have a good ruckman in Marshall but down back they dont have much and onball they rely heavily on Steele and B.Crouch and every week Lyon pulls the Sinclair into the middle move to try and generate some clearances.
King is a worse kick for goal than Harry and Membrey while still a dangerous player when on is very banged up and near the end so even with those two as inclusions Id expect them to be minimal threats.
If we sit a player on Sinclair and our rucks can break even with Marshall we should win comfortably....

[blueianh]

There is a part of me that thinks this would not be a bad week to blood Binns to give us some extra run and out of left field I could see O'Keeffe as a chance to replace Pitto, swinging TDK into the ruck and letting O'Keeffe do the forward/ruck role. He shows more forward than either of Pitto or TDK and whilst he is no hare he is more mobile than Pitto even without injury concerns. I don't think O'Keeffe is anywhere near fully developed and if JSOS was available I'd be looking at him doing the relief ruck but he isn't so there it is. Lemmey is way further back than O'Keeffe and I don't see any other options if we have stamped Young's papers as a forward, which I think we should have.

[LP]

Have I missed something, is Pitto out? :o