2018 Rd 17: Post Game whatever : Carlton vs Hawthorn

[PaulP]

Your right, our biggest problem is ball movement but not ours, the oppositions.
Our pressure, the stuff that we would be judged on, is terrible.
Our "zone defence" is woeful. Opposition simply play right through the middle of it week after week, and we keep doing the same crap.
Maybe we need to do the small things better Paul, like impacting the effectiveness of the oppositions best player.
Pressure him so he isn't as effective by foot which might mean he has 3 score involvements not 12.

So we put a heavy tag on Mitchell, coach looks like a genius, and we lose by 9 or 10 goals instead of 12. Job done ?

Look, the coach isn't an idiot - he is quite aware of the pros and cons of tagging Mitchell. There's plenty of 50/50 decisions that you need to make as a coach. No coach has the manpower to cover all the bases, so you need to make a choice, and because Mitchell had a day out, folks say Bolton is an idiot. I say no, he isn't.

Tagging is not the same as general field pressure, 1%ers etc. At least not in my book.