2018 Rd 1 Post Game Party: Carlton vs Richmond

[flyboy77]

Martin had 20 kicks and I can hardly remember him missing a target. Cripps rarely gets the ball in open space, but in general play his kicking is no where near as accurate or creative as Dusty.

He had 13 score involvements - Cripps had 4. There's your answer there in terms of impact. he was also very influential in the last qtr.

I have no love for Dusty but he has turned himself into a very good footballer. His foot skills and kicking penetration is better than any other midfielder.

I think we all need to remember that we have lost 2 of our top 5 players from last years list - this is a massive hole in skills and experience that we just can't fill overnight. We got beaten in the i50's by 24 and lost the tackle count by 20, and they had 16 more scoring shots. On any normal day that would lead to a 10-12 goal belting. There were some highly encouraging individual performances, but equally a bunch of really poor performances as well. Mullet and Bryne are both huge worries for me at this point.

Way off the mark. Did you watch the game SBF?

Martin barely played inside. More as a roaming high half forward. And again, I have no idea who was playing on him (maybe it was to be the injured Kennedy?) I certainly saw no meaningful effort to tag him! 13 scoring assists - even more reason to tag him!!!

Any comparison with Cripps is meaningless - entirely different roles.

Not to mention Dusty is 4 years older. Age for age comparison, Cripps is light years ahead.

I50s - well, we coughed the ball up so frequently coming out of D50, no surprises the count was askew.

Tackle count - well, we would have missed 40 tackles as we tired due to being 1-2 players down most of the match. That was a bigger factor than not having Gibbs and Docherty.

And let's not forget we've also added guys like Kennedy (who will be a star), Lang and Garlett - all of whom have previous AFL experience and will be regular first 22 in weeks to come. And Gibbs never struck me as a team first type, good riddance quite frankly.

Scoring shots, a lot of forced behinds and arrogant pot shots from the Tiges - they were not inaccurate as such.

As for Yarak's comment:

we continued to play a fast, counter-attacking style (inexperience maybe?) that resulted in turnovers and goals

on the money. We didn't know when to switch tempo and often over played situations (read tried to be too cute). Our new game plan is still being refined and indeed, practised. The scores (to Tigers) from turnovers was truly abysmal.

We'll beat them next time, don't sweat it.