Round 3 Carlton v Essendon-Post match thread

[Professer E]

Henderson was scragged all day - no "blocking"  or "chopping"  frees at our end, funny about that.  I'd play Walker at CHF and Jones on a wing... because he has zero idea where to run as a forward and looks better running with the ball in open play.  Lost count of the amount of times he ran to where Henderson was and pulled his opponent to the contest, which made life bloody hard for Henderson with the second opponent over the top.  Henderson looked very proppy at the end which is a worry.  I don't know who our forward coach is but he needs to work on the leading patterns because Jones seems to want to run to where others are all the time instead of leading to locations from whence he can score. Its called separation guys.

Cripps is exactly as noted by NB followers - smart hands and nous inside but kicking is iffy.  Had the chance to really hurt the scum on the scoreboard today.

Wood battled manfully -gets no help from the maggots and constantly scragged -  coupled with some smart inside work it is a shame that we couldn't capitalise on this work as we have no outside run.

Thought Armfield gave us a bit of run and effort which we have been sorely lacking.

Smaller defenders did better under pressure and Rowe, although still average, showed some glimpses today.  The way the ball came in at time it was hard being a defender today.

Murphy a lot better but possessions not hurting sides.  Gibbs was excremental and he is rushing his kicks.

Was pleased to see Yazz stand up for himself and the boys made sure Goddard received plenty of treatment.  There are some smart asses in that side who clearly need taking down a notch - a lot of sly stuff today, but you'd expect it from the juicers.