2016 - Rnd 1 Carlton vs Richmond

[ItsOurTime]

Conca went down injured too.

He Concked out?




;D

[ElwoodBlues1]

Observations so far from the NAB cup games is that our forward line creates no pressure and the opposing teams take too many easy marks and run the ball out too easy.
We dont have the big name forwards so we need to create pressure and force errors....I can see Rance having a picnic and being BOG given how many times we kick the ball wildly down forward.....I reckon Rance needs a stopper just to nullify the Tigers rebound and to create some ball on the ground for our clever smalls ...if Rance plays on the Boult, Gorringe, Philips etc he will carve us up with his rebound...

[flyboy77]

Observations so far from the NAB cup games is that our forward line creates no pressure and the opposing teams take too many easy marks and run the ball out too easy.
We dont have the big name forwards so we need to create pressure and force errors....I can see Rance having a picnic and being BOG given how many times we kick the ball wildly down forward.....I reckon Rance needs a stopper just to nullify the Tigers rebound and to create some ball on the ground for our clever smalls ...if Rance plays on the Boult, Gorringe, Philips etc he will carve us up with his rebound...

Smile EB1 - we'll beat the Tigers by a few goals....

[Dominator_7]

Will be a great midfield battle.
Grigg and Conca gone.
If I were a Blues player, Id be aiming straight for Edwards' injured shoulder. He's only 1 big hit away from see ya later.

[flyboy77]

Will be a great midfield battle.
Grigg and Conca gone.
If I were a Blues player, Id be aiming straight for Edwards' injured shoulder. He's only 1 big hit away from see ya later.

we'll smash them in the guts.....whether we win depends on whether we kick straight imo.

[dodge]

I used to do a  blind tipping comp, where the season was tipped before round 1.  Always got a better result than a traditional tipping comp.  Head over heart and could set ground rules and follow them.

I see this game as a head and heart matter.  Love to win it, but surely the expectation of doing so is very low.  We have to have improved on last season and Richmond got worse.  This may have happened, but not by enough.

I don't see how we can kick enough goals or defend or goals well enough, unfortunately. 

[Thryleon]

I reckon we'll beat Richmond simply because we are not supposed to.

[Robblues]

What do we think of bringing  Rowe to CHF , he is not setting the world on fire at CHB , that way we don't have Levi as the key forward allows him to be the forward / ruck role that is much more suited to him instead of the key forward where he is just lost? Rowe has played there before , and can kick a goal. Even though it's NAB cup Weiterling has show he has the application to play CHB even swing Philips or White through there as well. It would restructure a forward line a little which has no direction at all at the moment?

[Thryleon]

What do we think of bring Rowe to CHF , he is not setting the world on fire at CHB , that way we don't have Levi as the key forward allows him to be the forward / ruck role that is much more suited to him instead of the key forward where he is just lost? Rowe has played there before , and can kick a goal. Even though it's NAB cup Weiterling has show he has the application to play CHB even swing Philips or White through there as well. It would restructure a forward line a little which has no direction at all at the moment?

It's not bad, but Rowe is the same as our other tall forwards at the moment.  Not that fast or agile,  can't apply pressure once the ball hits the deck.

The others are the same.

We have to hope Liam Jones comes good because he is the only one with the right physical attributes to be a modern key forward we have.

Everett and walker are the other talls we should run with and the rest should be resting ruckmen.

We have too many ruck sized players and it hurts us.

[Robblues]

Well with Rowe at CHF this gives all those that want to try Jones at CHB the opportunity, at least Rowe has kicked goals before there, not the long term answer but we are playing this year by year. The main thing was also to release Levi from that key posy , he is much more damaging in a roaming role, at the moment he is playing like a man with to much pressure on him and is playing like he is constrained in a role, not using natural aggression and thinking to much