Post Game Analysis: AFL 2020 Rd 2: Carlton vs Melbourne

[laj]

Unless Cripps has a big game we can’t win. Simple as that.

No star quality apart from Cripps in the midfield and we are usually playing catch up as we can’t compete early on when the heat is on.  It’s bloody hard to improve when we give away so much week in week out where the majority of games are won and lost.

Was a game we just had to win against a bottom team and we failed again.

Will start 0/3 after next week. Not exactly the start needed for a team supposed to leap up the ladder this year.

Can look for positives all you want but the reality is we will again be a bottom team and will struggle to lure the midfield support form Cripps which we now already 2-3 years overdue for and every year we are more desperate for it.

Said it time and time again - until it happens we will stay a bottom team. End of story.

We won a few without him in the second half of last year. If we had started with the commitment we should have we'd have played a cliff hanger against Richmond, might've lost but it would've been damn close, and pumped Melbourne. Then we wouldn't be talking as much about players. The issue was we had a highly winnable game, a "should win", and we pissed it down the drain through a lack of early commitment. In last year's late run we started like dogs against Brisbane, Dogs, Freo, Melbourne, Richmond and fell over 4 goals behind in the 2nd qtr against the Saints. We won 3 of those of those  and lost 2 others by less than a kick, not to mention giving up a 6 goal start against the premiers and getting pretty close late in the wet. Now this year we started even worse against Richmond and Melbourne. Sick of praising great fightbacks, even if we win, because we shouldn't be in that position in the first place.  Too often and not good enough.