2018 - What do you expect from the club?

[LP]

Our potency presently is not about our forwards. It is about four things:

1. our (coach directed) defensive mindset
2. our (relatively) weak midfield
3. the quality of delivery into inside 50
4. the absolute number of inside 50s.

http://www.afl.com.au/stats

are there any stats anywhere that look at the quality of ball movement into F50?

What is a correlation and what is a cause?

Do we get less marks inside F50 because we enter F50 less or with less depth and quality, or do we enter F50 less because we have no effective forwards?

I think a major problem is Casboult's heat map, even when he's playing well far too many of his contested marks come well outside F50 between the HFF and the HBF. This leaves him outside range, and slowing play. So is this because of Casboult, the coaches or because of the in play decisions further up the field?

During the year the media punished Carlton for it's slow uncontested possession game style defensive side of centre, that game style implies high possession counts but we ranked last for disposals in 2017, and 4th last for disposal efficiency. If we have a high D50 possession count with uncontested ball, then we must have a very low midfield or F50 possession count with a lot of disputed possessions! That tells us something about or game forward of centre.

A slow defensive build up won't help forwards, but again is the slow build up the cause or the effect of poor forward structures and patterns.