05-09-2021, 10:28 AM
Williams has two problems. 1. He is a currently not 100% and you can see it. The bloke has much more footy in him than we are seeing and him and Cripps seem to be suffering from a similar affliction. 2. The intention to transform him into a midfielder is fine, but he needs to be on the wing where he can hurt teams with his disposal. See number 1 issue regarding why we are not doing this.
You see snippets of his ball use and just think, ok, thats why we paid big money for him, and then we go and hide him in a back pocket for almost a quarter. IF he isnt fit, just get him up and running and play him later (my fear is that he has a significant issue ala Daisy, and we may not see more of his best footy for a while, and he will go in for an operation at the end of the year which will make us all go, OH, thats it).
Treloar was available off season. Some bolder list management, and we might have been able to pinch him at a heavy discount for not much.
When I found out we were going after Williams, I was surprised. Sure, he's quick, when he delivers to advantage, he makes the rest of our team look like sunday league triers (and that is an understatement).
I was entertaining people today and didnt see as much as the game as I would have liked, but I saw a sequence of just sheer stupid decisions and skill execution errors that led to us losing the ability to control the footy.
Harry Plays on near the wing for no reason.
Stocker handballed into traffic and missed the target which resulted in a goal.
Fogarty tried a short handball left handed rather than just knocking it inside 50 and it was cut off and rebounded for yet another doggies opportunity for goal.
Lots of missed chances where we should have hit the scoreboard harder and didnt resulting in the momentum shift, and bringing pressure back on ourselves.
We played reasonably well for periods, but when the Doggies went up a gear, we just couldnt go with them and kept making dumb errors via stupid decisions/ball use, or just plain crap execution. Both are a feature of the Carlton football club over the last 10 years, so to see it reflected on field is hardly surprising (Ahem, Daisy, Ahem, Malthouse, Ahem, lets go all out for McGovern, Williams and Saad... none of which are what I would call X factor recruits, nor do they fill any specific requirement, which makes them a bit of a no mans land, hail mary. High risk, low reward targets.)
I think we did this trying to bring in some experienced heads to help transition away from our previous stalwarts. The end is not far for quite a few for our seasoned regulars.
On a side note, was really pleased to see some of Cunninghams work. He is really showing why we chose him, and he is the most underated player on our list at the moment.
I forgot something. Walsh is a genuine star, and he went quiet in the last, because the bulldogs gave him ALOT of attention, and it clearly stopped us and got them going.
You see snippets of his ball use and just think, ok, thats why we paid big money for him, and then we go and hide him in a back pocket for almost a quarter. IF he isnt fit, just get him up and running and play him later (my fear is that he has a significant issue ala Daisy, and we may not see more of his best footy for a while, and he will go in for an operation at the end of the year which will make us all go, OH, thats it).
Treloar was available off season. Some bolder list management, and we might have been able to pinch him at a heavy discount for not much.
When I found out we were going after Williams, I was surprised. Sure, he's quick, when he delivers to advantage, he makes the rest of our team look like sunday league triers (and that is an understatement).
I was entertaining people today and didnt see as much as the game as I would have liked, but I saw a sequence of just sheer stupid decisions and skill execution errors that led to us losing the ability to control the footy.
Harry Plays on near the wing for no reason.
Stocker handballed into traffic and missed the target which resulted in a goal.
Fogarty tried a short handball left handed rather than just knocking it inside 50 and it was cut off and rebounded for yet another doggies opportunity for goal.
Lots of missed chances where we should have hit the scoreboard harder and didnt resulting in the momentum shift, and bringing pressure back on ourselves.
We played reasonably well for periods, but when the Doggies went up a gear, we just couldnt go with them and kept making dumb errors via stupid decisions/ball use, or just plain crap execution. Both are a feature of the Carlton football club over the last 10 years, so to see it reflected on field is hardly surprising (Ahem, Daisy, Ahem, Malthouse, Ahem, lets go all out for McGovern, Williams and Saad... none of which are what I would call X factor recruits, nor do they fill any specific requirement, which makes them a bit of a no mans land, hail mary. High risk, low reward targets.)
I think we did this trying to bring in some experienced heads to help transition away from our previous stalwarts. The end is not far for quite a few for our seasoned regulars.
On a side note, was really pleased to see some of Cunninghams work. He is really showing why we chose him, and he is the most underated player on our list at the moment.
I forgot something. Walsh is a genuine star, and he went quiet in the last, because the bulldogs gave him ALOT of attention, and it clearly stopped us and got them going.
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Paul Hewson
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