AFL Rd 23 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Gold Coast at Gold Coast

[kruddler]

Charlie is getting double teamed we are missing H

As i said above, i'm not sure we are.

We've beaten 3 of the top 4 teams without Harry.

It seems i'm not the only one who is hesitant....
https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/should...b5e2b29abb

[pinot]

As i said above, i'm not sure we are.

We've beaten 3 of the top 4 teams without Harry.

It seems i'm not the only one who is hesitant....
https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/should...b5e2b29abb

I think Charlie and Voss disagrees.

[madbluboy]

Has the team?

We are playing better without him.

If we wanna continue to play 2 rucks, we can get away without him.
2 rucks and Harry is starting to stretch how many talls we can have.

Worked fine before he was injured. Last 2 weeks we have struggled to score with Curnow being held.

[pinot]

Worked fine before he was injured. Last 2 weeks we have struggled to score with Curnow being held.

Not to mention H's running capacity presenting down the wings isolating Charlie in the 50.

[kruddler]

Worked fine before he was injured. Last 2 weeks we have struggled to score with Curnow being held.

Did it?

Last 2 weeks we have come up against 2 very good defensive sides. Both top 4, along with us.

Points against...
Carlton - 1505
St. Kilda - 1520
Collingwood - 1532
Melbourne - 1544
Western Bulldogs - 1595

[WASurfer]

Geez if that injury update is correct, it's looking good. We just need to snare one or two wins and we could go into finals with almost a full contingent.

We've been winning without all of those players, but I'll happily have Harry back in the team. Some of his stuff working up the ground in the weeks before he got injured was pretty good.

[PaulP]

If the club is fair dinkum about list depth and reward for effort, then none of Walsh, Cerra, Silvagni or McKay should be automatic ins. I know it will never happen, but they should earn their spot. None of the blokes that played against Melbourne deserve the ar$e. And that was such a super effort, perhaps that's an excellent balance right there ?

[madbluboy]

Did it?

Last 2 weeks we have come up against 2 very good defensive sides. Both top 4, along with us.

Points against...
Carlton - 1505
St. Kilda - 1520
Collingwood - 1532
Melbourne - 1544
Western Bulldogs - 1595

So Walsh and Cerra don't get back in either?

[pinot]

If the club is fair dinkum about list depth and reward for effort, then none of Walsh, Cerra, Silvagni or McKay should be automatic ins. I know it will never happen, but they should earn their spot. None of the blokes that played against Melbourne deserve the ar$e. And that was such a super effort, perhaps that's an excellent balance right there ?

Absolutely but Charlie will be better if two key defenders are not hanging off him.

Pitto and Hollands were serviceable but making way for Harry (reputation, scoring and score assist ability, high marking, ruck forward 50) and SOS (forward pressure, overhead marking,  smarts, relief ruck) will not be the end of the world. We are extremely strong with the ground balls and about to get stronger.

[LP]

There won't be as many changes as people think, if you look at the squad that player GC in Rnd 14 it is probably a good guide to next weekend.

I think our biggest problem is that with Dew gone GC is now tactically a known unknown, that makes it a danger game.