AFL Rd 2 2022 Post Game Permutations Carlton vs Western Bulldogs

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One thing Saad must do ... stop flying in forward line packs when you have no hope at the intercept.  Stay down to guard against a spill to a forward.  Cost us a goal last night

I was a bit confused by the media commentary about a terrific D50, I thought last night our defence was not bad but was one of our weaker attributes on the night.

Rnd 1 the D50 looked rock solid, last night the Dogs cleverly pulled it apart, we were quite lucky that a lot of pressure was applied by our Mids and HFFs because if we had played like millionaires, as we have done in the past, we would have been trounced. Ironic for us given the flaws of the past, that last night our Mids were basically our saviours.

Because of the way the Dogs created some chaos in our D50, our players like Williams, Doc, Saad and Newman looked indecisive at times.

I think Pittonet had a good game in the ruck, De Koning not so much, however quite a few times Pitto and De Koning got in the way of both our KPFs and KPDs, this will need some fine tuning. De Koning did do a couple of nice things around the ground that either saved us or helped us score.

I was glad to see Weiters and Gov resort to the big punches in the last quarter, they were learning to deal with the Dogs interference patterns on the fly!