AFL Rd 22 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Hawthorn

[kruddler]

Sunday arvo at the g comes an unlikely blockbuster with spot in the 8 up for grabs.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Reckon it will be ugly either way......Hawks either run us ragged like they did to Collingwood or we overpower their kids and Charlie and Harry kick a bundle each. Lose to Hawthorn and its over and time for the cracked, sacked and backed list to appear...

[shawny]

Another game we ‘should’ comfortably win yet they seem to have leap frogged us which is a mystery in itself as we should be years ahead of this mob. Ive lost all faith and see us only make up number even if we scrap in so lost a lot of interest in this year as I cant see this list being mentally or skilled enough to go all the way so ive checked out this year.

[pinot]

Best team on paper is not going to work - need to shake some things up. We are playing mediocre despite the facts - we are not scoring from turn over nor stoppages and losing contested footy.

We go conservative then at risk of finishing 10s at the end of the round

[kruddler]

Reckon it will be ugly either way......Hawks either run us ragged like they did to Collingwood or we overpower their kids and Charlie and Harry kick a bundle each. Lose to Hawthorn and its over and time for the cracked, sacked and backed list to appear...

Thats if Charlie is playing.

If not, who do we choose???

Cupboard is pretty bare.

I reckon we try and go small with Kennedy/Martin as our FF.

[Mantis]

Loss by 2 goals against the Hawks on the rise. Even if they struggle against GWS and lose this week. It will drive them to win at any cost on the rebound and kills our chance of finals. If they win against GWS it will be even worse. They will be sky high with confidence and teach our squad how to play football. I have no confidence in our next contest. We peaked at the wrong time of the season. Way too early.

[crashlander]

Hawthorn will have to go in as favourites, after another failure by us. It is really frustrating to see us sink to such depths. But, if we can't kick straight, how can we win?
For all the rubbish football we've played in the last months or so, and we have produced some rubbish, had we kicked straight, we'd have won all but one of those, and against teams at the top of their game. But, can we execute? No. We fumble and muck around and take too long and kick it so poorly to our forwards that it is a miracle that they kick as many goals as we do. Nor do we seem to learn from our errors in the previous game. It will take a real turnaround to win this one. And I don't like the chances of that happening.

No Cerra and no Cottrell. Maybe others as well. A very poor time to be hit with crucial injuries. But we covered them early in the year.

[kruddler]

Too slow crash....
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[crashlander]

I tried to merge the threads and failed. Will someone else please merge these.

[Thryleon]

We are much better than this, have an extra day break and whilst the Hawks have been good freo and gws down in tassie is their only really solid wins in the last couple of months. 

Beating Brisbane at marvel when they did wasn't a good win.

Brisbane hadn't started rolling yet.

I'm not so pessimistic about this match but I'm starting to think our flag chance is slipping away and I can only blame the MC for flirting with form, selecting unfit players and then causing a roll on.