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

[Barbs]

I have said this time and time again - Matty Kruezer is our most important player by the mile, we have no structure and our groups confidence falls to bits when his out. We were shot from the first bounce against a team that considering our development, we should win at least 8 out of every 10 times we play them. Cripps aside we are small light and weak where the ball is won without MK in there and to replace a player like that with a small light kid is amateur hour and showed our selectors to be fools this week

While i know we should never have such a reliance on one player until we get at least 2 more decent sized midfielders it wont change.

We wont beat any AFL team without him playing this year.

one of my biggest concerns with our list and the line up against the suns. We go in with a number of smaller players most of whom are still young and not strong enough. A number of our (more) senior players are still small guys - Murphy, Curnow, Simpson, Wright and Lamb compared to the senior groups the top teams are putting out on the ground each week. Then add in younger guys like Fisher, Polson, SPS and Dow (and maybe Garlett) who are still building their bodies and we are quite a small team. After watching Sydney vs Port yesterday and bits of other games this weekend we do look far smaller than a lot of the competition. Even our KPP like Weitering, Marchbank, Mckay and to a degree SOJ are still filling out. (I'd say Curnow too based on age but he already looks a ready).

This of course is still no excuse for all the fumbles and poor disposal on Saturday.