Rd 3: Carlton vs Gold Coast: Pre Game Premonitions

[BluePhantom]

This has happened far too much in the first two rounds. Our back line structure is a shambles where the talls all seem to push too far up the ground and get caught guarding space rather than playing tight man on man defence on the most dangerous opposition forwards. When the opposition move it quickly forward they all get lost in the transition and Simpson, Docherty and Tuohy get left trying to stop someone with a big height and size advantage. Richmond exploited it in the last quarter and always had someone staying deep and Sydney were able to take advantage after their midfield got on top after quarter time.
I think this creates a huge problem for accountability - because none of our tall defenders have a direct opponent a lot of the time and are instead guarding space up the ground. I think the lack of midfield pressure against the swans stems from a similar problem. When we didn't have the ball everyone switched to defending zones rather than putting pressure on the opposition ball carrier or manning up his options. The gold coast did this pretty well against freo and the dogs seem to be the masters of it in 2016. Unfortunately they're our next 2 games.

And Thomas on Buddy? :o