AFL Rd 24 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs St, Kilda

[Gointocarlton]

To me it’s a stark difference no matter who we play but it’s not the kicking skills, it’s the football nouse from the forwards to be able to create and have the awareness of space - and then, equally as important, for the kickers to quickly calculate where the delivery of the ball will be to their advantage.

How many times did we see the St Kilda forwards run onto the ball that was kicked to where they weren’t … until they were?

Our delivery has never been like this. We rely on Curnow and McKay to win the physical one on one contest. Maybe that’s why Walsh and Kennedy who get the ball A LOT have such poor disposal efficiency ratings?

Frustrates me that this part of our game plan is so poorly developed when one would think it’s an easy skill or system to practice.

Sometimes its where the players run to that is the problem. I saw one yesterday where our bloke ran straight towards the vicinity of a StK player and that's where I think it was Kennedy kicked to. The StK player read it and intercepted and the TO occurred. There weren't any options from memory although I'll stand corrected but the lack of awareness of the player to choose to run towards trouble was the problem on that occasion. Happens a lot in our games.