AFL Rd 22 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Hawthorn

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We actually did ok in the hitouts and stoppages where it was even in the main, our troubles came when the ball was in open play where we fooled around with it too much, turned it over and ended up chasing tail and getting caught by the harder working Hawks on the overlap and eventually we stopped chasing and then ran out of gas completely when the bench was so depleted.
Didnt see Pittonet as a bad player and I thought he broke even with Meek who has been dominating, both he and the maligned often dropped, often made sub Kennedy can hold their heads up as players who fought it out imo.
re: Voss....normally Id question his tactics and lacks of moves but I thought we were out worked and were happy to play a non physical keepings off game where we couldnt generate enough run to penetrate the Hawks defense but took the easy short kick in an arc around the 50m mark racking up stats but going nowhere apart from when Cripps tried to do too much out of frustration and barge his way through their defense.
Lot of talk about Russell but there needs to be more talk about the list management and composition of the list and lack of depth.
A lot of these injury prone players were injury prone when they were recruited and thats where the mistakes where made....
The midfield needs an overhaul and while you always need contested players we need contested players with pace and who kick goals......

As far as depth went we had a bucketful injuries this year and still managed to sit 2nd.  Depth is ok. The problem is this constant barrage of injuries had been happening for years. Not just this year or this game  Russell's been there for 6 of them. It's no coincidence that 4 of the last 5 years we have a shot at the 8 earlier, on a shot at a flag  this year, as you are when you 2nd for so long, then crash in a heap games out. As happens when  with injuries you run out of fitness at the end of a long year. More disappointing given we were a genuine threat 6 weeks ago. Who saw this when we sat 2nd then kicked 8.4 in the first qtr against GWS.

Stings more this year as we had such hope.