AFL Rd 8 2023 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Brisbane

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That's what was so frustrating. Those couple of kick ins that favoured their fwds and resulted in easy goals, were unconscionable. Add in Young playing musical statues 25m out, resulting in another easy goal.

Young was never going to catch Cameron but that is not the point, both he and Newman gave up the chase when done over, it's not a good look and coaches will lambaste them, but in fairness we probably stuffed that one up at the selection table. Newman might get some kudos for running himself into the ground, but even so you never give up.

A whack at the MC, we brought in Motlop and removed Fisher, which reduced our run against the club that is probably the strongest running team in this years competition, the team that ran all over the Dees. I don't care how much you like Motlop and what he can do, it comes at a price against hard running opposition.

Those kick-in turnovers hurt but they do not hurt as much as the ones that happened forward of centre, when we had open targets inside F50 and stuffed up a 30m pass.

I don't know how many times we kicked the ball behind our target to the advantage of the trailing defender, I gave up counting.

SoJ looked to be up and about, was getting the better of opponents, and we put it at his toes, then we try to fix that problem by letting McInerney beat up on him for a quarter or two!