2018 Rd 20: Post Game Calm & Civilized Discussion: Carlton vs GWS

[Robblues]

As frustrated as I am, when I look at what we could put on the field and what we are presently able to put on the field, the result is pretty clear.

[1] From last year's winning team 12 players are missing. Of those, 2 was traded and 1 was delisted.
[2] Of the remaining players, one (Casboult) played in the 2nds yesterday and has not recovered from injury.
[3] Of the remaining, two (Marchbank and Murphy have missed more than half of the season and are not close to full fitness.

That is 15 players from last year's team.
Using Krud's list of injured players from the in-game thread, note that:
[1] 9 of the injured players would be preferred choices to play.
[2] One, (Phillips) would be a 2nd preference, but one who is a much better ruckman than the one we still had on the field (Lobbe) and is also considerably better than those we played against today (Dawson Simpson and Rory Lobb).
[3] Two are relatively untried and may yet be footballers.

Any way you look at it, we are lacking the first requirement to win games: talent on the field. Far too much of our talent is in the stands.

The second thing we are lacking is something very basic: we don't take out the best midfielder of the opposition. We have one tagging midfielder, Ed Curnow, who is the only man who tags in the midfield. This is a problem that the games against Hawthorn and GWS really have shown: we need another guy who can take out top mids. We cannot have guys like Kelly or Mitchell have 40 - 50 possessions in a game.

Our third issue is that our defenders do not get close enough to their opponents.

And from today, what have we done to deserve such ordinary umpiring? In the first half we were murdered. In all the noise about problems in the game, why don't they reward more tackles? According to Dermott Brereton, the stats show that about 5% of tackles are rewarded each game. Many of them involve vases of incorrect disposal, but these tend to be ignored. Why?
Rather than stuff around with the rules, why not enforce the ones we have?

This is the reality we know but forget at times , our talent sits in the stand, we haven't been able to settle a side all year. Contunity is import when developing a young side mix in season performers they learn on the job. We lost most of the leaders, never replaced Gibbs with either player of leadership, Murphy & Doc through the lot out of balance we had to rely on the ones that should have been in the teaching zone. I don't think we are as bad as all that we have shown given a clear opportunity. We , even today shown glimpses of quality, it's just we don't or can't sew those together , better more experienced sides do that, it will come , leave Bolts, maybe some coaching changes, but to sack bolts would be crazy after the position we are in