Community Cup Carlton vs St. Kilda

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Cripps - Very quiet by his lofty standards and played like he had a fair bit of rust in the tank.
Cuningham - A couple of nice moves and a lovely goal but he really doesn't impact
Curnow - Bad game. Not sure who he was on and whether he impacted their game but had very little impact for us.
Docherty - Very concerned with his form at the moment
Dow - Not as good as last week, but good enough to get a game round one I think
Fisher - Love watching this kid. Certainly has an X factor. I think he's in for a good year.
Fogarty - Quiet this week which is disappointing.
Gibbons - Didn't play at all? Is he in trouble?
Jones - Our best defender and close to BOG
Martin - So quiet early I didn't realise he was playing. Got a couple of touches towards the end but will need to imporve.
McDonald - Showed enough to be ahead of Moore in the pecking order, but then again my daughter shows more than Moore
McKay - No impact before going off
Moore - As expected
Murphy - Hmmmm, a couple of nice bits, but wouldn't want his position to be dictated by this game. Mind you there were plenty of others who showed less!
Newnes - Injured but was no impacting
O'Brien - A few touches but came on when everyone else was stuffed so understandable.
Petrevski-Seton - Frustrating to watch as usual. Just not hard at it for a backman and I'm not sure playing him on the ball would make any difference.
Pittonet - Just a great four quarter effort. Thought he was BOG.
Plowman - Not great
Saad - Reasonable game and showed glimpses of what we can expect.
Setterfield - In and out of the game but I thought he was one of our better players
Silvagni - Started of badly, I thought, but worked hard all night and was one of our best in the end. I'd play him round one.
Walsh - Uncharacteristically average and bordering on bad?
Weitering - Was going OK until injured. No ice on his knee after the game which was great to see, so it might be a hip?
Williams - Really good. Exciting prospect. Only failing was him missing 2 relatively easy shots on goal.
Williamson - Not a good game from Willo. Looked out of sorts.

From a team perspective, we were incredibly fumbly and as others have noted our tackling was as shizen as I've seen. Didn't miss many shots on goal, which was a positive. Our offensive plays still make primary use of the "just kick it to a pack" strategy and when we try to hit up a forward target our delivery is still, for the most part, terrible. Saints look like the real deal and have adopted the Tigers chaos approach, so it might have a been a reasonable result considering.

Wow, all that and we were within a goal of a team that is clearly on the rise and will be there when the whips are cracking in 2021. Maybe a little more positivity required, without a single tall forward we hit the 100 mark (nearly).