AFL Rd 9 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs

[Thryleon]

You forgot goal assists, an important stat.
But they were, based on disposals and goals twice as effective as our two  = contributed 24 points more  =  essentially the margin.

  I think it comes down to impact (a hard thing to measure), not just flitting in and out of the game.  What are blokes doing when they don't have the ball is the question ? Are they consistently presenting or getting to good positions.... because I'm not the only one who doesn't think they do it often enough.

One of our real problems is consistency, we have no bankable players.  For example, Newman was close to BOG for us versus the Giants, yet he stunk on Friday.  Why does output vary so much from game to game,?

leading at players and trying to get in dangerous positions whilst our mids kicked it straight at the opposition defenders is my answer.

I'm happy for the smalls to wear some pressure to perform but our team lost through poor decision making and execution.

No point dropping honey when he lead at the footy multiple times only for the next forward entry to hit Charlie or Harry's direct opponent.

I actually don't think they played well but even durdin at one point got out the back and the forward entry to him fell into his defender in front of him, with the end result intercept mark and rebound with durdin having to attempt to take mark of the year over a player twice his size whilst Harry was off getting treatment for a head injury.