AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

[crashlander]

First choice maybe.
Replacement talls are d grade (don't give e grades anymore otherwise they would be here).

Look I was, I wouldn't say optimistic, but excited to see how we'd go with mix n matching the players we had available.

However....It was a terrible fail.

Both in terms of output and 'data collected'
We should've tried to move players around a bit more to find a mix that worked. We didn't.

We did move Kemp forward, but we didn't keep at it for long. Not a lot of moves tried, and very few of them did much good.

I think pitto was good in the ruck.
I thought Charlie was good up forward.
I thought weiters was good down back.
I thought gov was passable.
I thought Kemp and young were largely disappointing.

I can't agree with this, I'm afraid.
{1} Pittonet: in the first half he was pretty good, but after half time he got smashed. Sweet gave him a lesson on how to palm the ball to advantage. Port got their hands on the ball first and got the ball out too easily.
Marc did take 2 marks tonight and was one of the reasons we played as well as we did in the 2nd quarter, but after that he barely touched the ball.
{2} Charlie I agree totally: he was probably our most effective player, even with the poor quality of our forward entrees.
{3} Weitering dominated Dixon. Dixon had 8 possessions and got 7 of them while on the ball. Unfortunately, we could get any drive from Weitering: he was too busy.
{4} Apart from one early contest, where he was out-bodied too easily, McGovern had a great night. He was reasonable in the air and his kicking wasn't bad. Not sure why he was off late: hope he has no new injury.
{5} Kemp was one of the reasons we came good in the 2nd quarter: he got totally on top of his opponent and took a large number of interceptions. He took more intercepts than any other Carlton player. But, like many of his teammates, he struggled a bit after half time. When he dropped that crucial mark ... He did spend some time forward, but he struggled to get into the game there.
Young was disastrous, he was even reasonable in patches, but he isn't a ruckman or a forward. It really showed.

Too many fumbles. Too slow to make decisions. Not enough 'swinging around' from vossy.

Far too accurate: we fumbled the ball a hell of a lot after half time. Walsh got run down and penalized too often. We made very slow decisions, taking the 'safe' way out, but it didn't prove to be safe.