2018 Rd 2: Post Game Prattle: Carlton vs Gold Coast

[crashlander]

Weitering...stays back (Marchbank/ Weitering -CHB FB)
Jones...roving back /follower (he's too loose to play one on one but he does provide contest and effort)
Casboult forward...not to ruck...to be replaced by McKay or Kerr sooner rather than later.
Persist with Silvagni
If Kreuzer's not available Lobbe or Phillips must come in.

Bolton's honeymoon is over.

We got badly out-coached today. Bolts had got to own this and learn some lessons from it, as there was so little that was in any way acceptable.

The Match Committee is going to have to hard questions to answer as well. Even an underdone Phillips would have been more effective than Casboult and Jones were in the ruck today. Witts has developed into a decent ruckman, and he used his height and strength to give them an arm-chair ride in the middle, one we simply had o answer to.
Our team was not well balanced. We really need to do some thinking before Friday's game or we are going to be smashed.

The players also need to ask themselves some questions. No matter how ordinary the performance was off the field, the guys on-field have to take responsibility for how we played. Gold Coast wanted it more than we did. They appeared stronger and faster. We had a LOT more of the ball than Gold Coast did, yet we got no benefit from that.

Richmond, Sydney and Western Bulldogs over the last couple of years have shown a lot of what is required to be successful. Pressure. Fanatic pressure. We do not apply that sort of pressure. Until we do, we are not going to win games we should win.
Start with that. Design a side that runs and chases and tackles and smothers like they really mean it. No free and easy possessions to the opposition!
That was the biggest single issue of today, and it could be seen in the first half with Lynch. He didn't win any contests. He didn't have to. He had about 4 marks for the game. But he had 21 possessions and most of them were in the clear, as Jones was drawn to the play because they were running freely. The had the rub of the green from the umps (who missed some shockers). But if we are good enough, then poor umpiring will not matter.

There is no fate but what we make for ourselves! It is about time we believed that and decided to make that fate. it will not come just because we want it. It comes from within US!