(03-18-2019, 04:15 AM)PaulP link Wrote:The game plan needed to change, and I doubt the media had anything to with it. You won't win much if you score 72 points per game with an average of 78, as we did in 2017. Any progress achieved that year was illusory. Half the team behind the ball and endless keepings off. Turn it up.
Yet Nthmond won a flag starting with tactics that saw them frequently run with 7 or more on the defensive side of the square, scribes cannot have it both ways!
To some of us we(Carlton) appeared to fold in 2018 under external pressure, long before we had completed the job of fixing our defensive structures which started in 2017, to me that made 2018 look chaotic with almost nothing functioning on field. I realise Docherty being absent is a big part of that structure, I can't help but think it was far worse than it needed to be!
But who gives a rats, we have Walsh! ;D
PS: Is there a strong association between scoring 100pts and having a high percentage, other than the Dawks, particularly in the modern AFL era? I suspect not, I think this would be a clear difference between the 80s, 90s and 00s and beyond.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"