03-24-2016, 12:57 PM
Some observations after watching the game at the aka at tonight:
1. The Carlton crowd found their voice for the first time in ages in the third quarter and it was beautiful. Walker's 1 arm mark got a huge roar in particular. Shame we were silenced soon after.
2. We have some big structural problems in our set up. Our defenders especially guard the spaces too much and give their opponents far too much room to move. Jamison, Rowe and Weitering got caught out too easily if Richmond could move the ball quickly and all three (but especially Rowe) go too far up the ground.
3. Th forwards suffer similar problems with nobody there when needed. We also went way too short at times. We looked more threatening when Casboult, Everitt and Phillips were forward. Given we had a small forward line though you would think they'd be better at crumbing the loose ball but there were far too many occasions were it just trickled to a Richmond player behind a pack.
4. We looked so much better when we moved the ball through the middle of the ground.
5. We seemed to rotate our tall players far more than Richmond who rotated their mids instead. Casboult, Kreuzer and Everitt seemed to go off a lot more than Riewoldt and Vickery. Might explain why their kids seems fresher in the final term.
6. Cripps was an unstoppable beast at the stoppages until he tired in the final term. Boeky ran hard for 3 quarters and looked good too, until he also slowed up in the fourth. Covered a lot of ground until then though. Simpsons fought hard but too often he somehow got left manning up on Riewoldt or Vickery. My only real negative report on a player was for Tuohy - I really don't think he can keep playing in the backline as he has no defensive game.
And finally, Hampson's goal kicking was even worse than Casboult. Let's hope the big fella can get it together again becaus his marking looked good.
1. The Carlton crowd found their voice for the first time in ages in the third quarter and it was beautiful. Walker's 1 arm mark got a huge roar in particular. Shame we were silenced soon after.
2. We have some big structural problems in our set up. Our defenders especially guard the spaces too much and give their opponents far too much room to move. Jamison, Rowe and Weitering got caught out too easily if Richmond could move the ball quickly and all three (but especially Rowe) go too far up the ground.
3. Th forwards suffer similar problems with nobody there when needed. We also went way too short at times. We looked more threatening when Casboult, Everitt and Phillips were forward. Given we had a small forward line though you would think they'd be better at crumbing the loose ball but there were far too many occasions were it just trickled to a Richmond player behind a pack.
4. We looked so much better when we moved the ball through the middle of the ground.
5. We seemed to rotate our tall players far more than Richmond who rotated their mids instead. Casboult, Kreuzer and Everitt seemed to go off a lot more than Riewoldt and Vickery. Might explain why their kids seems fresher in the final term.
6. Cripps was an unstoppable beast at the stoppages until he tired in the final term. Boeky ran hard for 3 quarters and looked good too, until he also slowed up in the fourth. Covered a lot of ground until then though. Simpsons fought hard but too often he somehow got left manning up on Riewoldt or Vickery. My only real negative report on a player was for Tuohy - I really don't think he can keep playing in the backline as he has no defensive game.
And finally, Hampson's goal kicking was even worse than Casboult. Let's hope the big fella can get it together again becaus his marking looked good.