AFL Rd 11 2023 Post Game Postulations Carlton vs Sydney

[ElwoodBlues1]

What was better this week.

Weiters and McGovern worked well in the absence of Young, there was little confusion and the pair had 9 and 7 intercepts respectively, they basically kept us in the game. I thought Kemp was OK despite a couple of clangers. We be saying we need better efficiency and McGovern went at 89% DE.

Despite kicking for goal like crap Charlie has a night out with contested marks against reasonable opposition, he's in good form and just needs to keep working hard and he'll have another day out soon.

Acres and Cerra were better this week, although Cerra might have a week off, that aggression is exactly what we need. We need some aggression directed at opponents not just the pill, we can't play 100% of footy as the hunted, we have to do some of our own hunting! I think Cerra's defensive work / pressure was his best all season.

Cottrell's best game for the season, perhaps his best game for the club!

Dont think Charlie had reasonable opposition ...they had all their tall defenders all out concussed or injured and started with that spud from Essendon in Aaron Francis on Charlie. Then they seemed to rotate to play team defense with Melican and Fox trying to be second man up in contests but were just outsized. We should have made more of their deficiencies but as we well know couldnt convert even when we did mark the ball. Their plan was to get the ball to ground and release Blakey down back and he just ripped us a new one as we didnt have anyone who could run with him....