2018 Rd 7: Post Game Platitudes: Carlton vs Adelaide

[Thryleon]

As usual the very little we get out of our youngsters is reducing the effectiveness of our older players.

The snowball effect is massive and I find most criticism of our players a tad unfair on that basis.

We need our senior bodies back asap.

I wrote this on my phone yesterday and feel that perhaps some have glossed over it.

http://www.carltonfc.com.au/footy/player-statistics

If you click on this link, and go to advanced stats, you start seeing a much bigger picture about who is putting in a mountain of work.  From round 7 alone, I have excluded every stat apart from time on ground %.

Our players in terms of time on ground percentage:

Liam Jones - 96%
Ed Curnow - 96%  (Considering this bloke spends 4 quarters running from contest to contest or with an opponent, this is absolutely amazing).
Sam Rowe - 94%
Kade Simpson - 93% (Spare a thought for a 34 year old bloke, who has been shouldering a big load for our kids to get a bit of an armchair ride)
Patrick Cripps - 91% (another warrior at the coalface and well down on effectiveness for it).
Matthew Wright - 90%
Levi Casboult - 88% (Don't forget he went off halfway through the last quarter with broken ribs and a lacerated lung lining).
Cameron O'Shea - 87%
Sam Kerridge - 84%
Jarrod Garlett - 83%
Lochie O'Brien - 83%
Dale Thomas - 80%
Lachie Plowman - 78%
Zach Fisher - 78%
Harry Mckay - 76%
Matthew Kreuzer - 76%
Nick Graham - 76%
Aaron Mullet - 75%
Andrew Phillips - 71%
Paddy Dow - 71%
Matt Kennedy - 69%
SPS - 65%


The guys at the bottom end are not giving us anywhere near enough in terms of time on ground, and need to be maximising their impact for the amount of time they are spending on the interchange bench.

Unfortunately, we can only state that they are going at half rat power even when on the park.  I am extremely dissapointed to see a big bloke like Phillips off for over a quarter particularly when we had Kreuzer and Casboult and Rowe off the park.

I think we need to worry less about the personnel on the park, and more about how effective we can use them because these stats tell an absolutely woeful story about blokes who are on the bench for too long, and other blokes shouldering too much of a load.

Food for thought:

A brain in a tired body, is more likely to make more mistakes, not because of what they want to do, but simply due to fatigue.

We are simply carrying too many non contributers for too long a period during games. 


On the flipside, I did the same exercise for the Crows:

http://www.afc.com.au/season/statistics

(Note you have to go to advanced options, and you select what fields you want).

These guys didnt have a bloke over 91% game time (Josh Jenkins at the top end) and Wayne Milera aside who went off with a Hamstring injury, didnt have a player go under 79% game time.

We need to be a bit more level headed about things and appreciate what our blokes are giving us.