AFL Rd 5 2023 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Adelaide

[ElwoodBlues1]

We need to get some  structure to the way we play, as I said earlier, every one of our possessions is one in hope as opposed to anything deliberate and methodical. Bombing it high and long into the fwd line is not the answer. Stupid over head backwards handballs to players under pressure or to the oppo is not the answer.
Our list is slow, the odd one with pace doesn't contribute anything. Tonight we needed a line breaker, Saad was obliterated by Keays and lost confidence. Apart from him, we had no one that we can get the ball into their hands and carry it.
Our slow play is disastrous. We need to train this aspect of our game and improve it to a evel that is at a minimum, better than embarrassing. Our players tonight refused to work hard to get to space and provide a low pressure outlet to the person with the ball. Stagnant, lots of pointing,  it just doesn't cut it.
Anyone who thinks we are top 4 is delusional so lets put that to bed now.
Playing games like tonight  will see us missing the 8 again Im afraid.
Lastly, there's a lot in the theme songs of the two sides tonight the typifies what we saw:
"Pride of South Australia" - Pride is indeed what they played with.
"The team that never lets you down" - Dont worry about us supporters for a minute, more importantly, tonight you let yourselves down, that's players, coaches, boot studders, every single one of you. That will hurt a lot.

Surprised we fell for the Keays move again, thats a coaching fail imho.
Agree we are slow but the Crows had us playing a high speed game which doesnt suit and we needed to slow the game down to
make it more methodical and force them to man up but as you say we didnt work hard enough to find space and kept firing the ball to contests which they were winning...missed Docherty in that regard.
The Walker/Fogarty combo like Keays seems to throw us out as well, our defense looked wobbly and like last time we couldnt seem to stick a tackle on those two and looked overpowered as well.
I still think we can make top 4 and use this game as a learning experience and  probably do our homework a bit better on a few of their players. Dawson has been BOG for the last two games yet appeared to be running free off Cripps especially early and I cant understand why we let this happen against key players in the opposition.