AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

[kruddler]

There's nothing level about this competition any longer. The tail wags the dog.

That said, a 5d break shouldn't occur this time of year. Obviously the powers want to pip other codes and $ deals. Given there's 18 teams, I'd guess 5d could be avoided,  althoughwe did put our case forward for the big games. Unfortunate for us, this one coincides with crucial injuries (some compliments of the sniper ?) as well as poor form after return from injury. If you look at that combination, it resembles an obvious ticking time bomb. Particularly when you consider the load on the regulars and the  capability of bottom end players.

Interesting to see the 5d break spread across all teams.

We can only remain hopeful that we can turn it around. What is certain is that we're very hard to beat when at our fierce  best. The real challenge is consistency.

Go Blues

The 5-day break in itself is not necessarily the issue. IMO the bigger issue is that Port had an extra 2 days break.
If they had a 6-day break it wouldn't be so much of an issue.

Of course, there was no real need for there to be a 5-day break anyway, especially since we were the last game sunday and the first game the next week.