04-24-2021, 11:56 AM
(04-24-2021, 10:11 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Skills include converting and creating opportunities when you are on top...You have seen plenty of football, how many of us knew after the 1st quarter we were in trouble?. We had all the play and couldnt put enough score on the board, they were always going to have their run with the ball as all teams do and they punished us in the 2nd, game over, bit of a rally in the 3rd but once they steadied that was the game.
Intent was good in the first but we softened up in the second, stopped manning up and they kicked easy goals.....its all Walsh and Cripps onball and nothing else. They had 5 mids plus Rich in their best players, we spent all our gas and apart from Walsh who goes all day its spasmodic returns from the other mids
Williams was ordinary and like last week started well but faded and only had 20 possies again, thats not going to win games for us vs quality like Brisbane have onball...
Agree. Think of their forward line players when kicking for goal. i can remember four goals kicked with set shots from about the fifty metre line. Their forwards had the confidence in their kicking ability to take the shot and bang it through the goals.
Except for Walsh's goal on the run I can't think of any Carlton forward kicking a goal from that distance.
What I did see was the usual hesitancy near the fifty metre line, plenty of attempts to handball which put the receiver in trouble, many kicks of about thirty metres or less to forwards already covered, kicking in error to the opposition backs, kicking over the heads of our forwards - you know, attempt anything rather than take the responsibility of kicking a goal. So we fall into the same pattern with the usual skill errors we see every week made by players who are just not up to standard.