05-03-2021, 12:39 AM
I think our defence works better when we are attacking effectively and not turning the ball over in the middle of the field, eg Cripps left foot kick in the third quarter. Owies, Parks, Cotterel and Gibbons have all come through our Rookie system, and along with Casboult, Curnow, Betts and Saad, this means that over a third of the team were late picks in their draft year. Even though Dow was going ok before he was injured, I thought SPS gave us a real spark when he came on. We have bookends with McKay and Weitering, and a lot of good mid-fielders, we just need greater cohesion and less errors in the middle of the ground. We also need to continue to attack to the end rather than try and put the cue away five minutes out as we did yesterday. They got three goals when the pressure went off, so instead of winning by six we won by three. Good sides like Richmond finish off their opponents. I thought it was a good win by Carlton. Essendon's good players played well, they had confidence from last weeks game against Collingwood and a couple of their young players did well. I thought we were a lot more consistent across the ground. and we kicked more of the goals we should have. Kicking goals when you have the opportunity changes the game. Stringer's miss for them in the last quarter effectively killed the game.