2018 Rd 9: Pre game Anticipation: Carlton vs Melbourne

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I thought he was quite good against the Bombers.

The Bombers were rubbish Thry, and Rowe was the least influential of any defender against a rubbish side, and never really gave us control of the footy which I think is key to his role.

One of our KPDs needs to be marking the football or else the Demons mobile medium / small forward line will have a feast. They run with a three way forward/midfield rotation using Petracca, Hogan and Oliver, they will add a fourth to that this week with Viney.

SOJ would get destroyed by Hogan.

Bigger, stronger and faster!

Hogan's hardly played forward for the last four weeks, and nobody would suggest SoJ stand Hogan inside D50, Jones is our best option for Hogan because the Dees will almost certainly have Hogan working up the field leaving McDonald inside F50.

Well I'm afraid if young SoJ he wants to play mid then Hogan is the sort of player he needs to go head to head against. Name some other more suitable midfield opponent, Blicsav, Fyfe, Kennedy, just about all the other options are either faster or more mobile! There is not that much difference in size and speed, Hogan has recently worked a lot inside like Cripps leaving Oliver and Petracca on the outside.

We cannot leave Cripps one out against Petracca, Hogan, Oliver with only support from lightweight smalls like Murphy, O'Brian, Fisher or Dow. To win this game we must win the midfield because our HB line is far slower than the Dees forward line, we won't be running off them if we are unable to mark!

This week, after the Clarko whinge, you can expect umpires to be red-hot on blocking, so attempts to double up defenders on guys like Hogan or Charlie will be penalised.