AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

[shawny]

Injuries 'are' an excuse...they're the best bloody excuse there is.

Make it in a decent ladder position.
With a reasonably fit side...
and I wouldn't expect that Port would cause us too many problems

But both of those are big 'ifs' just at the moment.

Seriously who do we have out. Like no team ever has no injuries.
We are missing TDK harry and Doc.
If we were as good i started to think we ate we still take care of the 7th placed interstate team at home.  If we played swans loins then maybe not having a full team may be a reason but against a middle of the road team at home nope im not buying that.

[PaulP]

McKay, De Koning, Williams and Acres. That's a good chunk of running power, goal scoring ability and height.

[PaulP]

I couldn't quite figure out what Fogarty's role or position was.

[laj]

We must be in a hard training block. We play one good qtr most recent weeks then are just cooked. We've flogged sides in last qtrs. with 5 day breaks before.

[laj]

Seriously who do we have out. Like no team ever has no injuries.
We are missing TDK harry and Doc.
If we were as good i started to think we ate we still take care of the 7th placed interstate team at home.  If we played swans loins then maybe not having a full team may be a reason but against a middle of the road team at home nope im not buying that.

JSOS, Acres, Williams, Martin too would be handy.

I just don't understand how we can play one qtr the last few weeks that is premiership material then not fire a shot for the rest. Like after we do that we are cooked and sides just run over us. Up until 4 weeks ago getting run over by sides just never happened. If we were a few goals up, then the other side kicked a few, we'd lift and burying them unmercifully. Now we just get run over and crash after that one random qtr of brilliance.

[townsendcalling]

There plan was simple, let Curnow get balls up the ground because there was no one to kick to, play through Kemp's man..... and let Lewis Yoing do whatever he wanted to do.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Port are garbage thats why its embarrassing, dud players like Esava, Allir and Zerk Thatcher outmarking our blokes isnt on, we dont have any KP backup at either end and lets be honest we dont have a CHB either. Did I hear we average more opposition marks in our defensive 50 than any other team?......
Smashed at centre clearances, beaten in the hitouts, beaten in general clearances and outackled, they were better with the ball and with Cripps and Walsh both held again to average games we were never going to win.
The loss of TDK has affected us badly as he impacts not only in the ruck but at clearances and in general play and its having a flow on effect to Cripps and Walsh who need to be extra dominant for us to win and thats not going to happen every week that TDK is missing.

[Lods]

McKay, De Koning, Williams and Acres. That's a good chunk of running power, goal scoring ability and height.

...and our defensive structure has been unsettled in terms of personnel in recent weeks with a fair bit of chopping, changing, omissions and injury.
McGovern, Kemp, Boyd, Marchbank have all been in and out...and Weitering has been knocked around a bit as well.
Hard to get a settled line-up with constant changes.
But even if they are all fit there are question marks over some of them.

[madbluboy]

Yep if you ever wondered who the number 1 ruck was that question has been more than answered. Pittonet is a C grade footballer.

[madbluboy]

McGovern was on the bench for most of the last quarter.dont know what that was about.