05-11-2019, 12:56 PM
(05-11-2019, 10:20 AM)jeza link Wrote:McGovern was quiet but kicked 3.
Marchbank looked like he was building into the season. That was his best game in a Carlton jumper.
Cunningham's best game for the club. When he plays like this we're a 5 goal better team at least. He did have 3 goal assists and kicked 2 himself.
Gibbons was good again with 8 tackles.
Setterfield really looked good. I think we need to trust him with more time in the middle. He's stronger than most of our midfielders - both tackling and getting his arms free once tackled.
Dow took a step forward.
Samo - so so so disappointing. Still a massive gap between his best and worst games. Sidebottom gave him a thrashing in the first half.
Stocker showed why we rated him. He'll get a lot better than this.
Unfortunately the opposition ruckman was the difference again. We couldn't match Grundy's work rate.
Agree on all of that except Dow 's kicking remains his problem area and he probably hasnt come on as quickly as I hoped.
Setterfield and Stocker make us look bigger and stronger, neither are stylists but very solid units who attack the ball well, Stocker isnt a backman IMO but I think
he is getting senior experience vs good players down back and thats important.
Sidebottom is a tough opponent and loves playing us and I thought he lifted for them when it mattered, I wasnt down on SPS as he had a tough gig today,
you just hope he learns from that and can be a bit more damaging the other way.
Been critical of Marchbank but he did play his best game today vs a difficult opponent.
Gibbons is handy and getting better...Cuningham can kick a good goal and gives us some pace.
McGovern converts well but needs to give us a bag of 5 rather than 2-3 goals to win us some games.....