Rd 12: Post Game Purgatory: Carlton vs St. Kilda

[Brettie]

....I couldnt understand why Stevens was allowed to run onto Hickey taps with no one in front of him, just a clear path ahead?

Literally cost us the game......Saints opened their lead in the 2nd quarter as a direct result of this & we never looked like it after that. Curnow chose a bad week to play possibly his worst ever game. Our midfield put so much pressure on our defence.....just a really, really poor collective effort from that group.

That's twice in the past month our ruckmen have been smashed in the middle & we've had no Plan A, let alone a Plan B.....whereby the opposition midfield have simply walked past as if we were standing still in crucial centre clearances, giving their forwards an armchair ride, clearance after clearance......it's a definite issue for us.

Reckon a few of them showed up with fat heads.....a heavily depleted Saints team, a monster Carlton crowd (would've easily been a 70/30 split), just expected it to happen without trying too hard to make it happen......Saints had a crack from the get-go, got their tails up, a few things went right for them and away they went. The Saints were in a similar position to us today & that's how we've won a couple of our games, but today we were on the other end of one.

As others have said, if we're gonna have a 2nd ruckman, then it can't be Gorringe.......ever.

I know we're still developing & don't want to over-achieve too quickly as we continue to rebuild......but I much prefer losing to the contenders as expected, than this bloody mob.