NAB Challenge: Carlton vs. Sydney at Etihad

[jeza]

I still have a huge concern.

We look at the forward performance last week and say...."yep, it was poor but wait until we get our full midfield back and it will be a different story."
But really, even fully fit, that's not a significantly better mid-field than we played for most of last year and that did little for our forward performance.

Our top  goalkickers last year were

1 Andrejs Everitt 31
2 Levi Casboult 24
3 Tom Bell 17
4 Lachlan Henderson 16
5 Dennis Armfield 13
5 Troy Menzel 13
7 Andrew Walker 12
8 Zach Tuohy 9
8 Matthew Kreuzer  9
10 Marc Murphy 7
10 Liam Jones  7

Bell, Henderson and Menzel are gone....There's going to have to be a massive step up by more than one forward to make a significant difference to our scoring power.

Pretty difficult to judge our forward line when we don't get the ball past the centre for most of the game.