08-10-2020, 05:38 AM
The umpires are criminals, it wasn't just the holding the ball decisions, there was also the out on the full recall and the Curnow trip.
If you look at the age profile of the WCE midfield, Yeo 26, Gaff 28, Kelly 26, Shuey 30 Sheed 25, Naitanui 30, Redden 29 and Allen 21, to the Carlton midfield, Walsh 20, Cripps 25, Curnow 30, Murphy 33, Setterfield 22, Kennedy 23, Pittonet 24, DeKonning 21, other than Allen, the WCE players are all in their prime, while Murphy is towards the end and if he is replaced by Dow or Kemp, then it easy to see that the Carlton midfield is two to three seasons from being in the elite and about four or five seasons away from being unstoppable.
If we had brought this effort last week against Hawthorn then we would have won by between five and ten goals. It was a good response to a very good team, in a hostile environment where things didn't go our way. I thought it was good that Betts was further up the ground this week enabling him to give his leadership and experience to the team. Considering, Silvagni, Kreuzer, Newman and Charlie are out for the season, McKay, McGovern and Cuningham are injured and we lost Martin during the game, while Dow and Marchbank were coming back from injuries in the twos, it demonstrates we are starting to build depth in our squad.
I can follow Carlton when they have a go, but I can't if they don't try like last match.
If you look at the age profile of the WCE midfield, Yeo 26, Gaff 28, Kelly 26, Shuey 30 Sheed 25, Naitanui 30, Redden 29 and Allen 21, to the Carlton midfield, Walsh 20, Cripps 25, Curnow 30, Murphy 33, Setterfield 22, Kennedy 23, Pittonet 24, DeKonning 21, other than Allen, the WCE players are all in their prime, while Murphy is towards the end and if he is replaced by Dow or Kemp, then it easy to see that the Carlton midfield is two to three seasons from being in the elite and about four or five seasons away from being unstoppable.
If we had brought this effort last week against Hawthorn then we would have won by between five and ten goals. It was a good response to a very good team, in a hostile environment where things didn't go our way. I thought it was good that Betts was further up the ground this week enabling him to give his leadership and experience to the team. Considering, Silvagni, Kreuzer, Newman and Charlie are out for the season, McKay, McGovern and Cuningham are injured and we lost Martin during the game, while Dow and Marchbank were coming back from injuries in the twos, it demonstrates we are starting to build depth in our squad.
I can follow Carlton when they have a go, but I can't if they don't try like last match.