Rd 3: Carlton vs Gold Coast: Post Game Pain

[Barbs]

Weitering and Charlie were again the green shoots to get excited about this week. Weitering's NAB rising star nomination was well earned and deserved.

Oh, another team thing I noticed, and I know this is not limited to just Carlton, but this hurt us probably half a dozen times on Sat night, we got the ball on the rebound, someone is tearing through the middle of the ground, they look up and there is absolutely no one in the fwd 50 to kick it to !!!

IMO this is absolute madness, each time the player with the ball had to stop, prop and go sideways. It was ridiculous. IMO no matter where the ball is on the ground, we should always keep a player deep in our fwd 50.
 

Have to agree with this. In round one not only did we suffer from this problem but rather frustratingly Richmond did the exact opposite to us in the last quarter. When Richmond charged back they always seemed to have 1 player (usually Riewoldt) back well past our zone and giving themselves a lot of space. Every time Richmond successfully moved the ball quickly our zone couldn't roll back quick enough to pick up the player and it often led to the big mismatches like Simpson trying to spoil at KP forward with 20kgs and 15cms on him.

Unfortunately the Doggies seem to have a similar set up and leave Stringer back deep a lot. Since they are really good this year at quick ball movement I can't see it going well for us unless Bolton makes a change and keeps a defender back to man him up as well as someone forward so we have a target to kick to.