AFL Rd 11 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney

[Gointocarlton]

I think we will win this easily.

I have tipped against us the past few weeks so I’m not blinded by our inadequacies at all.

To me there is something off about how they’re playing - watching the team play this year has felt like the bad old times. Last year on so many occasions I couldn’t believe my eyes on how well and skilful we played. Which to me says the skills are there, the utilisation is not.

So whatever they changed up this year, change it back quick smart and work out another way to improve our deficiencies.

Think we’ll win by 6 goals.

I'm sort of with you there Mick, rather than the skills themselves, its the decision making and running patterns that are bad. Yesterday really highlighted how off the mark we are in running patterns. I commented in the post game how they run in in pairs (min) and surrounded our ball carries. Our running in groups is largely non existent and I think thats due to fear of leaving their opponent too much space in the event of a turnover. Another thing that irks me is how stationary our blokes remain when we have the ball. Get on the move quickly FFS, then turn around and look at the team mate with the ball. So often our backs are to the play. There was one instance yesterday in the reserves game where Caddy ran along the wing/HFF, gathered and centered the ball beautifully but the recipient had his back to the ball carrier and lost it in flight. We do that stuff too often in the 1s also.
If we can just tidy up this stuff, I think some results will go our way.