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ok, so I'm never happy to lose, but I saw SOMETHING tonight. Green shoots? Damn right. Full marks for endeavour and intensity - was always going to drop off towards the end against a more seasoned opponent. Some fantastic slick ball movement. Definitely a semblance of a game plan emerging.
Just a couple of errors and lapses in judgement which we're all used to and frustrated by. White's two clangers in 2 passages of play. Kerridge's shanked kick which robbed us of a certain goal and earned one for them on the rebound. I have confidence that Bolts will limit these frustrations but he won't eliminate them completely and that's what's going to continue to cost us in these close ones.
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(03-24-2016, 12:32 PM)DJC link Wrote:How refreshing is it to have a coach who is articulate, on message and deals with the media politely but with authority?
Amen
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Some observations after watching the game at the aka at tonight:
1. The Carlton crowd found their voice for the first time in ages in the third quarter and it was beautiful. Walker's 1 arm mark got a huge roar in particular. Shame we were silenced soon after.
2. We have some big structural problems in our set up. Our defenders especially guard the spaces too much and give their opponents far too much room to move. Jamison, Rowe and Weitering got caught out too easily if Richmond could move the ball quickly and all three (but especially Rowe) go too far up the ground.
3. Th forwards suffer similar problems with nobody there when needed. We also went way too short at times. We looked more threatening when Casboult, Everitt and Phillips were forward. Given we had a small forward line though you would think they'd be better at crumbing the loose ball but there were far too many occasions were it just trickled to a Richmond player behind a pack.
4. We looked so much better when we moved the ball through the middle of the ground.
5. We seemed to rotate our tall players far more than Richmond who rotated their mids instead. Casboult, Kreuzer and Everitt seemed to go off a lot more than Riewoldt and Vickery. Might explain why their kids seems fresher in the final term.
6. Cripps was an unstoppable beast at the stoppages until he tired in the final term. Boeky ran hard for 3 quarters and looked good too, until he also slowed up in the fourth. Covered a lot of ground until then though. Simpsons fought hard but too often he somehow got left manning up on Riewoldt or Vickery. My only real negative report on a player was for Tuohy - I really don't think he can keep playing in the backline as he has no defensive game.
And finally, Hampson's goal kicking was even worse than Casboult. Let's hope the big fella can get it together again becaus his marking looked good.
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Csboult has had this kicking problem for the majority of his career, I do not know of any bone-fide key forward who would go for the checkside from 30m out in such a tight match and cock it up so badly as well.
This shows to me that he just has no confidence in his kicking abilities plus he cannot follow the simple instructions given to him by Sav Rocca last year.
Overall, we have a huge beast with incredible marking skills who cannot kick to save himself or the team when the game is on the line.
He's now 26yo and the question has to be asked, how much longer do you persist with him ?? We were approached regarding a trade a year or two back and we should of taken it with open arms. With games like tonight, his overall trade value will have dropped significantly.
Gee, Jones & Casboult in the key forward posts, makes me want to come up with an invention that adds 5-6 years experience to Harry McKay now.
Oh well, we have some serious deficiencies on the list that will be addressed over time, just have to "stick fat" with the players we have in 2016 and then review it all at the end of the season.
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Casboult played a fantastic game. If you can't see that you weren't watching. Such an important role in the team.
Missed some shots he'd like to have kicked but kicked 24 - 12 last year. He'll come good. Don't panic.
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(03-24-2016, 12:58 PM)TheSheik link Wrote:Csboult has had this kicking problem for the majority of his career, I do not know of any bone-fide key forward who would go for the checkside from 30m out in such a tight match and cock it up so badly as well.
This shows to me that he just has no confidence in his kicking abilities plus he cannot follow the simple instructions given to him by Sav Rocca last year.
Overall, we have a huge beast with incredible marking skills who cannot kick to save himself or the team when the game is on the line.
He's now 26yo and the question has to be asked, how much longer do you persist with him ?? We were approached regarding a trade a year or two back and we should of taken it with open arms. With games like tonight, his overall trade value will have dropped significantly.
Gee, Jones & Casboult in the key forward posts, makes me want to come up with an invention that adds 5-6 years experience to Harry McKay now.
Oh well, we have some serious deficiencies on the list that will be addressed over time, just have to "stick fat" with the players we have in 2016 and then review it all at the end of the season.
The simple response is, you persist with him until we have better.
As for his kicking, he did do a pcl. Most players have "loose" kicking after significant injury recovery.
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Twas a good match. A few WTf moments but plenty to like.
Massive tick for us not going to water with the rough stuff.
That's the first coach who has ironed it out.
We can't afford to miss so many scoring opportunities that are better than fifty fifty. It's what killed us the most. I counted at least three goalscoring opportunities we coughed up by dropping marks, missing targets. Or choosing the wrong option to pass to. Until our forwards score more frequently we must get those right.
We are still probably only a 13 goal team, but things will get better.
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I was just happy to see close to a 4 quarter effort.
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I'm really proud of the boys. I was asked by a Cat supporter mate how we'd go tonight. I said that I rate the tiges as a top 8 side and if we can compete within 5 goals of a top 8 side this year I would be happy. We should have won, so I am ecstatic. There was no selfish displays, but a lot of skill errors. Accountability though was through the roof. Some of the passages of play blew me away.
Cripps is in the Kouta/Judd/Fev/Diesel/SOS/Kernahan/Jezza/Doull/Nicholls etc.....mould.
Legend.
Weitering?...What a debut and what a gun. Can't recall a better player on debut.
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I went along hoping to see effort. Didn't think a win was possible, but we played well enough to get the chocolates.
For the first time in a long while, I felt like I was watching a Carlton
TEAM 
By the way, watch Bolton's presser - so much better than the grumble-faced rubbish we saw for the past 3 years.
Can we give votes to the Coach?
This is now the longest premiership drought in the history of the Carlton Football Club - more evidence of climate change?
