AFL Rd 5 2022 Post Game Carlton vs Port Adelaide

[ElwoodBlues1]

I must have been at a different game 

Powell-Pepper played mostly as a forward and had a couple of turns in the ruck (where the umpires let him get away with tactics that SOS was penalised for).  He used his strength quite well as a forward and was a difficult match up for our smaller defenders.  Weitering had him for a while and that enabled Finlayson, Georgiades and Marshall to cause problems for Parks and our smaller defenders, although Parks is a much improved player and generally defended well.  The idea that our blokes put in short steps because of Powell-Pepper is fanciful.

I think Vossy summed it up really well:

"The last five or six minutes of that game were extremely intense. If we lost some intensity around the ball, we somehow found it in that last five or six minutes.

It’s fair to say that we’re in that position right now where we have to learn how to win — and win properly. We’re still in that stage."

The first half was outstanding, champagne footy ... but the last six minutes produced some of the best footy our club has played for a long time.  As Vossy said, we have to learn how to win properly and that means undoing the learnings of the last decade where losing intensity and folding under pressure was the norm.

You must have behind the lady with the big hat ? PP comes through hard in the FP , think it was Newnes who froze and watched him spin around and handpass to Boak I think it was and goaled.
Weitering had a handpass smothered which was PP again, another Carlton player(can't remember who) didn't get involved when he should have and pretended to follow his man when he should have chased PP because Weitering was off balance and PP snapped a goal.
In a separate incident Setterfield dropped a sitter on the wing because either he is a lousy mark or he thought he was going to get hit and imo it's the latter because he has form for doing it previously.
PP did have a run in the ruck and we were lucky he didn't kick another goal when a lazy Pittonet couldn't be bothered picking him up. Imo PP had a real influence after half time as did Butters and it was their contested footy and our lack of contesting/chasing that contributed. Losing intensity is a pretty way of saying we played bruise free non contested footy.
Did the same with Hawthorn after half time too..imho .
Re : Parks..very ordinary player imho and his lack of nous will cost us games...same with Setterfield whose disposal and brain lapses with regards attack on the footy will cost us also.