(06-04-2016, 10:16 AM)bignic link Wrote:. . .
Frankly, it was sickening to watch.
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It was lazy, unacceptable football, reminiscent of the, dare I say it, Malthouse era.
I must have been at a different game ???
I thought that the effort, pressure, tackling, team defence and polished ball movement was as good as I have seen from a Carlton side in many years. Yes the opposition wasn't all that flash but they beat us by 64 points last time; that's a 102 point turnaround.
What gave me a great deal of satisfaction was watching our defence set up and effectively create a wall that Brisbane struggled to penetrate. The transition from zone to man on man was seamless. We did get touched up in the clearances but that's understandable with Kreuzer off and Gibbs blanketed by Robbo. Our pressure was so effective that Brisbane's clearance advantage was negated.
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