AFL 2023 Preliminary Final Carlton vs Brisbane Post Game Prognostications

[Micky0]

Choked

Being beaten doesn’t mean choked.  Charlie is a big game player, just didnt get it done Today. It happens.

His final series  was without his co forward H or Jack Martin. He is only human.

Separately why was Fogs subbed out? Thought he was exceptional.

[PaulP]

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Separately why was Fogs subbed out? Thought he was exceptional.

If I were to speculate, I'd say the fact that we were being smashed and out hunted around the ball forced their hand, and they thought another big body at the coalface was a better choice. It make sense IMO.

[PaulP]

Unless of course Fogarty was injured, but i didn't notice anything.

[31Tommys_barber]

Better team won but they had to work at it. We ran out of steam mentally after they started coming close but happy with the year. We are two years behind Brisbane in development but we know what it takes now.
Still don’t know why we constantly bomb the ball up forward instead of having another string to our bow by running it closer looking for leads. A few got found out thought Cincotta was poor but been a good find and needed a bit more class than Fogarty maybe Owies but never know. Our tactic of Doc being an extra mid from the forward line failed as we kept kicking it to his man Coleman who used it well. 16 points flattered our last three quarters of play but a year of improvement and we are earning respect not ridicule anymore

[madbluboy]

We lost by 16.

H had a complete gimme free he didn’t get in the last Quarter push in the back that was so obvious I assume that umpire will not umpire again / if he’d kicked that we’d have had momentum.

Not sure how that result equates to we only played a good first 20 mins?

What was our score after 30 min compared to the end

[madbluboy]

Being beaten doesn’t mean choked.  Charlie is a big game player, just didnt get it done Today. It happens.

His final series  was without his co forward H or Jack Martin. He is only human.

Separately why was Fogs subbed out? Thought he was exceptional.

Stupid sub. Cripps should have been subbed.

[pinot]

If we make the finals in 2024 you expect a better finals series from Cripps and Charlie Curnow

[Micky0]

What was our score after 30 min compared to the end

We lost by 16 points to a team that-

1. Had no significant injuries
2. Had a week off
3. Had a relatively easy run to the end
4. Home ground advantage

[Mantis]

MBB. Has a point. We played almost one great quarter, then scored 4 goals in 3 quarters. We might have tried hard but we’re smashed every position on the park. We were lucky it was a close result. We could have lost by 6 or more goals. They are by far a better unit than we are.

[Micky0]

MBB. Has a point. We played almost one great quarter, then scored 4 goals in 3 quarters. We might have tried hard but we’re smashed every position on the park. We were lucky it was a close result. We could have lost by 6 or more goals. They are by far a better unit than we are.

Yeah, but we didn’t ??‍♀️