AFL Rd 15 2022 Post Game Postulations Carlton vs Fremantle

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Agreed, but I have one reservation.

I'm not sure at all that you can play that game style week in and week out, fans think it's great, but it takes a toll. You need to have a few different ways to win a game, because the level of repeat running we saw yesterday from the guys like LoB, Fisher, Walsh, Cottrell and Boyd is not really sustainable week after week.

One of the things that made Nthmond successful was that they had more than one tempo, they rarely played more than a half of berserka type footy. They also played the tempo game very well. Yesterday, while it made fans happy, it was 4-Qtrs of finals beserka footy.

I suspect with a 6 day break we will have a lot less run next Friday night against the Aints, it will be intriguing to see how Voss manages the tactics.

We still played tempo footy for periods, but not for as long as we have in other games.

Walsh, Cottrell, Newnes, O'Brien and probably a few others could back that up almost immediately.  That's a tribute to their professionalism and the work of the Terrier.

Another factor is that you expend less energy when you dominate inside 50s, tackles inside 50, uncontested possessions, disposal efficiency, centre clearances, etc.  The Frockers were running around like blue-asked flies and I suspect that they were more fatigued than we were.