AFL Rd 5 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide

[bricky]

Kicked ourselves of of it but the MC didn't help.

[townsendcalling]

Getting thin down back with Saad, McGovern and of course  Docherty now all missing in coming weeks (and beyond) .

[tex]

Getting thin down back with Saad, McGovern and of course  Docherty now all missing in coming weeks (and beyond) .

What happened to McG

[LP]

Old Carlton came to visit - lowered our colours to a lesser team & relied on individual brilliance & too many passengers & bringing in Pitto only weakened TDK.

Personally I think Pitto was the better of the two today, TDK was soundly beaten again by O'Brien who seems to be TDK's bogeyman.

I think if we hadn't had Pitto we would have lost by a lot more.

[LP]

Walker has Weitering bluffed! Owies has too many brain fades!!

Walker, O'Brien and Keays have days out against us, they have the confidence now so it's likely they will always be a bogey side going forward.

Owies might have had a brain fade in the last but before that he was OK, our problem was the 3rd quarter when we burnt many opportunities. We've had 8 more shots at goal and lost by 2 pts, we should have been 3 or 4 goals up at 3/4 time not level, 3-7 to 5-1 with many of those 7 gettable.

[Professer E]

A few passengers today

[LP]

A few passengers today

I said in the pre-game, I had to assume we had a lot of injuries because some players just weren't deserving / earning a spot. We've been clinging to a couple of blokes who just aren't delivering to AFL standards.

Fantasia is now a huge mistake, he might be useful on the track but on game day it's passed him by.

Ollie Hollands is struggling, the kid has got what it takes but he needs time away to regain some confidence.

Fans will jump on the selection of Pitto, but we would have been smashed if not for him today. TDK is having his best season but he's erratic and O'Brien is his bogey man. O'Brien showed today what the new ruck rule means, TDK can't jump over a bloke his size and as a result with O'Brien offering a stiff arm TDK can't get close to the ball. He tries to jump so high he lands off balance and then he is out of the ground contest. TDK would be better to surrender the tap and become a mid.

The commentary from Brown and King was spot on today, as many of us have been saying our MC needs to find a way for us to score some easy goals, at this rate we'll be run into the ground before the mid-season break.

You can't live on the razor's edge and expect never to be cut!

[JonDorotich]

Whilst I’m not a fan at all, I don’t think that Pitto was the problem today. We let ourselves down with missed tackles, poor decisions at critical moments and of course, missed shots at goal.

We badly missed Fogarty’s pressure forward of centre and we’re now struggling to cover the cumulative loss of Saad, Cerra, Docherty, Motlop and Martin.

Fantasia, Owies and O Hollands struggled with the bigger bodies and missed critical tackles and our small forwards were rarely at the fall of the ball.

Cripps & Acres made some very poor decisions and of course Owies could have sealed it at the end, but it wasn’t to be. Lots to work on.

[Professer E]

Fantasia gives us nothing.  I know we have injuries to most of our half forwards but why not play a running type like Binns.  It gives us more flexibility.

Fantasia is supposed to be a specialist small forward.  Why isn't he applying pressure?  Why he is nowhere to be seen when the ball hits the deck?

[LP]

Fantasia gives us nothing.

He plays with no confidence, like he is clinging on to his career by his fingernails.

If we had Martin and SoJ or Motlop in F50 Fantasia might be some use as the small forward, but he's not a player who can be roving while Durdin and Owies contest, it's just not going to work. We need Fantasia playing like Cottrell and he is miles off.