AFL Rd 3 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs North Melbourne

[crashlander]

There was a fair bit to like about this game but felt we should have won by a lot more, North are rubbish. One of my close buddies from school is a died in the wool Kangas fan and all he could sook up about was how they got reamed by the umpires. Was he watching the same game as me ??

We had a lot more frees than North did, even if North's first 3 goals came due to frees. They were very undisciplined: they were trying to play like Clarkson and don't know how to do it yet, so there were 50 metre penalties and turnover frees a plenty. 34 frees to 21, and some of theirs were pretty lucky.

Curnow plays in bursts, it would be interesting to see what he could do if he went like that for a whole game, he'd probably kick 15-20.

Did TDK really lower his colours to that blonk Xerri ??

Xerri did a very good job against a guy who has been in career best form. Tom was a better alround player, getting kicks and marks around the ground, but Xerri was the reason they had so many clearances. I reckon Tom won on points, or I wouldn't have given him votes, but Xerri impressed me. I don't think he is as good as Goldstein, so trading Goldstein to the Drug Cheats strikes me as stupid, but that is another tale.

Thought Weitering showed great leadership when he went in & grabbed Larkey and yanked him off the wrestling maul on the ground and then as they were all breaking up, he pointed the finger at Larkey with an angry face and said something obviously along the lines of "pull your screwing head in mate".

We still need a few more players with some aggro, we are getting rid of the Von Trapps's but not quick enough IMO.     

Fair enough. I was impressed by Weitering's cool head, to be honest. Larkey (and no small number of his team mates) had lost the plot and were close to getting reported, (I wonder whose influence that is?) but Weitering was strong and firm and intelligent.