AFL Rd 4 2023 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne

[Gointocarlton]

I'm not seeing a finals side here, we won but some glaring and obvious issues reared their ugly head again. I'm not liking what I'm seeing.

Poor ball movement and amateurish forward play. Thank the Lord for Saad. Sloppy goal kicking from Harry (nothing has changed).

Weak under physical pressure.  Really weak.
Poor skills and decision making under pressure. Fumbling and turnovers.
Effort still appears to be conditional
A long list of players playing poor football. TdK, George...when are they going to get going?

We need to keep turning the list over.  It's clear that Cowan and Hollands have outstripped established players. 

Need to move on from LoB, Fisher (Fogarty as EB suggests), even JSoS.  If you can't do the job, give someone else an opportunity.  If we, by some miracle make finals, there's clearly some weak links  that won't cope with those kind of games.

That was definitely the first two qtr Prof, but to be fair, in the 3rd and 4th the mids went to work and got their hands real  dirty. They played some super tough footy and intimidated NM I reckon.