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NAB Challenge: Carlton vs. Sydney at Etihad
#11
(02-29-2016, 02:47 AM)flyboy77 link Wrote:Full strength CFC midfield - Cripps, Murph, Gibbs, Kerridge, Graham, Thomas, Wright, Whiley, Boekhurst (Simmo, Docherty)

That's a pretty decent list.
Once that midfield hums along together in sync, it will be pretty good I reckon. Still not sure about Whiley but I will hold off judgement until he gets a decent crack at it.
2017-16th
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2019-16th
2020-dare to dream? 11th is better than last I suppose
2021-Pi$$ or get off the pot
2022- Real Deal or more of the same? 0.6%
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#12
(02-28-2016, 10:24 PM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:That was the comment that resonated most among the people I was with yesterday, "why play such a weak side today?".

Because 4 points wasn't at stake. Winning is irrelevant so it was a week to expose the kids.
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#13
sos - wrong thread
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#14
(02-29-2016, 02:55 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:Once that midfield hums along together in sync, it will be pretty good I reckon. Still not sure about Whiley but I will hold off judgement until he gets a decent crack at it.

Forgot Ed Curnow. Oops, sorry Ed, much better player than many give him credit for......
Finals, then 4 in a row!
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#15
Delivery into the forward 50 must improve if we are to kick more than 6 goals a game. Deplorable.
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#16
I still have a huge concern.

We look at the forward performance last week and say...."yep, it was poor but wait until we get our full midfield back and it will be a different story."
But really, even fully fit, that's not a significantly better mid-field than we played for most of last year and that did little for our forward performance.

Our top  goalkickers last year were

1 Andrejs Everitt 31
2 Levi Casboult 24
3 Tom Bell 17
4 Lachlan Henderson 16
5 Dennis Armfield 13
5 Troy Menzel 13
7 Andrew Walker 12
8 Zach Tuohy 9
8 Matthew Kreuzer  9
10 Marc Murphy 7
10 Liam Jones  7

Bell, Henderson and Menzel are gone....There's going to have to be a massive step up by more than one forward to make a significant difference to our scoring power.
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#17
(03-01-2016, 11:48 AM)Lods link Wrote:Bell, Henderson and Menzel are gone....There's going to have to be a massive step up by more than one forward to make a significant difference to our scoring power.
Clarkson would say "3 soldiers fall over, 3 others stand up". Thats what BB will tell them I reckon.
2017-16th
2018-Wooden Spoon
2019-16th
2020-dare to dream? 11th is better than last I suppose
2021-Pi$$ or get off the pot
2022- Real Deal or more of the same? 0.6%
2023- "Raise the Standard" - M. Voss Another year wasted Bar Set
2024-Back to the drawing boardNo excuses, its time
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#18
Is the problem of poor performance in the F50 one of our mids being incapable of good delivery or one of our forwards not creating anything to deliver it to, or being incapable of doing much if it is delivered to them, or a combination of all these things (plus more!)? I'll be very interested to see if we try anything different v. the Swans.
Reality always wins in the end.
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#19
(03-01-2016, 11:56 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:Clarkson would say "3 soldiers fall over, 3 others stand up". Thats what BB will tell them I reckon.

Yep
But that just brings us back to square...
Our "points for" last year  were our worst since 1967 when we only played 18 regular season games.
Players don't just have to stand up they have to go a bit better than that.

How we structure and the game plan we employ will have an impact but that's an unknown at present.
A forward or two may emerge and surprise....but again, it's not obvious.
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#20
(03-01-2016, 11:48 AM)Lods link Wrote:I still have a huge concern.

We look at the forward performance last week and say...."yep, it was poor but wait until we get our full midfield back and it will be a different story."
But really, even fully fit, that's not a significantly better mid-field than we played for most of last year and that did little for our forward performance.

Our top  goalkickers last year were

1 Andrejs Everitt 31
2 Levi Casboult 24
3 Tom Bell 17
4 Lachlan Henderson 16
5 Dennis Armfield 13
5 Troy Menzel 13
7 Andrew Walker 12
8 Zach Tuohy 9
8 Matthew Kreuzer  9
10 Marc Murphy 7
10 Liam Jones  7

Bell, Henderson and Menzel are gone....There's going to have to be a massive step up by more than one forward to make a significant difference to our scoring power.

Pretty difficult to judge our forward line when we don't get the ball past the centre for most of the game.
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