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

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CARLTON            0.0    2.5    4.6    7.11 (53)
MELBOURNE      5.2    7.4    8.5    8.6 (54)

GOALS
Carlton: Cuningham, Lang, Casboult, McGovern, Gibbons, Betts, Cripps No multiple goal kickers!
Melbourne: Hunt 3, Neal-Bullen 2, Petracca 2, Fritsch

BEST
Carlton: Murphy, Docherty, Weitering, Petrevski-Seton, McGovern, Curnow
Melbourne: Gawn, Petracca, Oliver, Salem, Langdon, Viney

INJURIES
Carlton: Newman (knee) A bad blow for us. Hopefully Williamson did OK in the scratch match.
Melbourne: Nil

Free kicks: 13 to us, 18 to them.
Tackles 41 to 50!
Hit outs: 26 to 34

I know I have been blowing my horn about getting a top ruckman now for years, but it would be nice if our match committee and recruiters could understand that.

Docherty and Murphy 24 possessions, Cripps and Curnow 21,
The statistics suggest that not enough was done by too many, even with a great 2nd half.
A question I have: did somebody play close and hard on Oliver? He doesn't like it. he isn't easy to tag, when his ruckman is dominating, but he can be smashed and he does retaliate. So, did we tag him?
Did we tag anyone?

Oliver was on Cripps....so Paddy had the job of manning him but we know it doesn't work that way as the skipper doesn't man other players and why smart clubs only man Cripps at the stoppages and then instruct their player to run off him. Works fine for us if they put a non skilled tagger only on Cripps but if its a quality player then you have them running loose all day.