Round #4 Carlton vs St. Kilda in NZ: Pre Game prognostications

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Malcolm Blight won Back to Back flags with the theory that you just had to kick more goals than them  :o

Well therein lies one of our major problems - our goalkicking accuracy. We generate the inside 50s alright but either turn over the ball or miss the shot on goal all too often. The score last Sat was 11.18 to 16.9 and at one stage we had half the number of goals and twice the number of behinds than the Bummers. Says it all.

I don't have the stats for our other major problem area, but doing what Ross Lyon talks about and watching the game, when we are defending and our set defensive structures are actually  in place, we manage reasonably. The real problems come from when we try to go forward and too often turn the ball over in our forward part of the ground - we then can't respond to opposition quick counter attacks and our defence gets caught out, often badly. Best way to deal with that I guess is not to turn the ball over in the first place.

If we fixed up those two areas alone I reckon a lot of our other problems might not seem so bad.