2018 Rd 17: Post Game whatever : Carlton vs Hawthorn

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What kills us every week is that the opposition moves the ball so much better than we do.
They hit targets more regularly by hand and foot and run to space instinctively because they're confident their team mates won't cough it up.
We look timid because we don't have the skills which allow us to take risks, so we play safe, and get exposed.
McKay spotted up Marchbank with a lovely ball, Marchbank took the set shot and kicked it out of bounds.
It destroys confidence, and it's contagious.

I agree with what you say re coughing up the ball. We are very inconsistent with our kicking.
What I will say though, is our pressure when we are defending is almost non existent, and that allows the opposition to look a lot better than they probably are.
2 weeks ago, I counted at least 3 times where the opposition had a kick in from a behind, 6 uncontested marks resulting in an easy shot on goal. 1 of those was 2 marks inside 50. Resulted in 2 goals and a behind.
Last night, watch the vision of Hawthorn coming out of defence, our guys would mark space, the ball runner runs to our guy, handballs over the top to an unmarked player (his opponent marking space 3-4 metres away), then runs on past our next guy for the next Hawks ball runner to rinse and repeat. Coast to coast with uncontested possessions.
Our forwards are not at all defensively minded, FFS they wont work hard enough when we have the ball let alone when we don't. Our midfielders don't work hard enough in defense, and then the defense stand 5 metres off their opponent and wonder why their opponent takes an easy mark.
People are going to say, "well we had 2 rotations down, our guys were cooked", what about the games when we weren't? Same result.
Our guys are lazy and don't work hard enough.


Why is that?