Post Game Passion: AFL 2021 Rd 2: Carlton vs Collingwood

[tonyo]

According to the AFL website the I50's were 60-48 in our favour. The really critical one that caught my eye was the marks I50, which was 13 apiece.

Teague is going full on with an aggressive forward half, forward press game. Clearly he wants to lock it in there and boost scoring. But the balance between attack and defence is off IMO. What killed us against the Pies was those quick and easy goals against a defence not set up for that.  I hope Teague goes a little more defensive from now on, and tries to put a spare behind the ball (not at centre bounce for obvious reasons), tries some more tagging, tries something with a more defensive minded midfield.

The one saving grace this year is at least we are scoring, so we are staying in games.  I thought we played pretty poorly against Collingwood, but it was still only 8 points the difference at 3/4 time, and it was the same against the Tigers.

TBH, I think our defenders have copped a lot of unfair stick this week over getting beaten 1 on 1 - the ball was coming in at a million miles an hour with little or no pressure on the ball-deliverer.  That is not the fault of the defence.

I think we have a lot of improvement left in the tank, so all is not lost.  But until our defensive play improves (and I am talking more about forwards and midfielders here), the 'W' column will continue have a smaller number than the 'L' column.