2018 Rd 4: Post Game Pain: Carlton vs North Melbourne

[kruddler]

Here is a big part of our problem:

Sam Docherty Season
Jarrod Pickett 10 weeks
Ciaran Byrne 3-4 weeks
Tom Williamson 3-4 weeks
Darcy Lang Test
Cillian McDaid 4-5 weeks
Caleb Marchbank 4 weeks
Matthew Lobbe 4 weeks
Alex Silvagni 2-3 weeks
Murphy                      Who knows?
Kennedy                    Who knows?
Kreuzer                    Who knows?

That's nearly half of our best team is unavailable and won't be available for at least a month.

Strap yourselves in for a rough ride and see how we look at the end of May.

Don't buy that. My best team before the season had...
Murphy
Kreuzer
Docherty
Marchbank
and maybe Pickett and Kennedy.

That was maybe 6 players. Not half our best 22. Not even close.

Obviously injuries don't help, but how many injuries did we have from that group in R2?

Docherty
Kennedy
Pickett
...and not much else.

Injuries are not responsible for the turnaround from week 1 to week 2, nor week 2 to week 3 and not even from week 3 to week 4.