AFL Rd 19 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne

[DJC]

He won’t be in my best players but I just want to acknowledge Ollie Hollands for his ability to get to contests and his repeat efforts.

I have wondered about his selection week after week but, like Matty Cottrell, I suspect that a lot of Ollie’s work goes unnoticed.  It was more apparent this arvo.  Well done young man!

[LoveNavy]

I thought NM were very good. The ladder is irrelevant this year. Although if you drop a game, it can be a slippery snake down the board.

We just did enough. No more. No less. I thought our contest and defence was poor for significant periods. Top opponents will make you pay for that.

Our young or less experienced players at times kept us in it at times. Although that's a good sign, it isn't something we can rely on. Moo, Fog, Hollands x 2 (some of Ollie's best alongside a few clangers) Motlop, Carroll  & Mowies all played their role. Cottrell is finding some form too. It's great that Binns had a ripper in the 2's.

George. Saad, Newy, Crippa toiled away. TDK, H, and Charlie had big moments but lacked consistency. No doubt having about 6 players revolving through the rooms didn't help.

In all, we're far from settled. Yet managed to do enough against a talented young side.

Rest, recover, and hope we have no injuries. We don't need more games with an unsettled side.

Go Blues

[pinot]

Felt we played a little choppy and messy due to positional changes.
Hewett just has to play every week. Not sure on Cerra in the backline he needs to be in the guts. Walshy down on form a little and would like to him him play forward a little more to regain touch.

[LordLucifer]

No-one can be happy about that game, we nearly coughed it up too. Thing is, serious premiership contenders don't struggle to put away the cellar-dwellers but we do.

Spectators & passengers, there was not one player out there tonight who can honestly say they gave four quarters.

What happened to that ferocious attack on the contest we had a month ago that enabled us to totally throttle teams ??

Seriously scratching my head now and fear that we will drop some more games in the run to the finals with this lackadaisical approach.

- Port have a sniff of finals now and may be a tougher prospect than earlier in the year
- even though they savaged by injuries the Pies are due for a bounce back and may be unpredictable
- Hawthorn are playing out of their clacks and are starting to blow teams away
- the Eagles should be an comfortable win but there is no room for complacency
- Saints are sh1t but you never know which of their personas will turn up on the day   

The thing that really annoys me is that we dropped games against the Giants & Dogs that we were expected to win and had we gone acoording to the plan, we would be equal top now. 

 

[crashlander]

Not having the extra tall hurt us today, especially with Tom de Koning well below his best. When he lifted in the third, we looked unbeatable. In the 4th, he was thrashed and we struggled to get a clearance.
With H on and off and Tom the same, it allowed Comben to go forward and kick 3 goals. We had no other talls to go with him.
Charlie is so far off his game that it isn't funny and he still kicked 4 goals. He should have had 8! He is dropping marks badly at the moment.
Our midfield struggles to run guys down: lack of leg speed in the middle. This needs addressing, soonest.
I think we should have played Cincotta on Sheezel or LDU today; they wouldn't have a quarter of the effect.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Not having the extra tall hurt us today, especially with Tom de Koning well below his best. When he lifted in the third, we looked unbeatable. In the 4th, he was thrashed and we struggled to get a clearance.
With H on and off and Tom the same, it allowed Comben to go forward and kick 3 goals. We had no other talls to go with him.
Charlie is so far off his game that it isn't funny and he still kicked 4 goals. He should have had 8! He is dropping marks badly at the moment.
Our midfield struggles to run guys down: lack of leg speed in the middle. This needs addressing, soonest.
I think we should have played Cincotta on Sheezel or LDU today; they wouldn't have a quarter of the effect.

Didnt learn much from last time with Sheezel who had 30 plus possies, thats the annoying bit, another 35 today.

[Thryleon]

Can we get Lewis Young in the team now please?

Yeah he can be scared of his own shadow at times, but with confidence that changes.  He was capable with weitering out of the side, and when weiters returned, against gws we played them both and he was fine.

[crashlander]

Can we get Lewis Young in the team now please?

Yeah he can be scared of his own shadow at times, but with confidence that changes.  He was capable with weitering out of the side, and when weiters returned, against gws we played them both and he was fine.

Sam Durdin wasn't embarrassing: he did his job, mainly on Teakle, but he wasn't the long term answer. The number of times he got his hands to the ball only to not complete the mark was frustrating.
Young has to be in the frame, but he certainly isn't setting the world on fire in the 2's.
Do we promote Kemp on his game? It was certainly a good one. But who did he play against? Has he learnt from his blunders? Do we play him up forward if H doesn't come up?

[crashlander]

Didnt learn much from last time with Sheezel who had 30 plus possies, thats the annoying bit, another 35 today.

Sheezel was helped by Xerri's dominance. When Tom got up in the 3rd quarter, North couldn't buy a clearance, but Sheezel got them down his throat for most of the game.

[Professer E]

6-7 goals to Norf via rubbish decisions or non-decisions today didn't help