Rd 19: Pre Game Prayers: Carlton vs Hawthorn

[laj]

Oh well, did I really think we were trying to win? Must have thought it was 2018 or something.....

Carlton

B: Lachie Plowman, Jacob Weitering, Dylan Buckley.
HB: Sam Docherty, Sam Rowe, Ed Curnow.
C: Blaine Boekhorst, Patrick Cripps, Kade Simpson.
HF: Sam Kerridge, Levi Casboult, Dennis Armfield.
F: Nick Graham, Simon White, Jack Silvagni.
Foll: Andrew Phillips, Bryce Gibbs, Matthew Wright.
Int: Matthew Kreuzer, Andrejs Everitt, Liam Sumner, Zach Tuohy.

Emg: Jed Lamb, Liam Jones, Mark Whiley.

In: Andrejs Everitt.

Out: Charlie Curnow (Knee)


Hawthorn

B: Taylor Duryea, James Frawley, Ben Stratton.
HB: Luke Hodge, Josh Gibson, Grant Birchall.
C: Isaac Smith, Sam Mitchell, Bradley Hill.
HF: Luke Breust, Jack Gunston, Brendan Whitecross.
F: James Sicily, Ben McEvoy, Cyril Rioli.
Foll: Jonathon Ceglar, Jordan Lewis, Shaun Burgoyne.
Int: Kaiden Brand, Will Langford, Jonathan O'Rourke, Tim O'Brien.

Emg: Dallas Willsmore, Blake Hardwick, Kurt Heatherley

If we had some idea how to kick goals, I'd be a lot happier. But with 1 key forward, who couldn't get a kick last week, our forward power does not impress.
Ceglar and McEvoy usually dine out on our rucks and we don't usually tag Mitchell, with unsurprising results.

Unfortunately, as one key forward, he won't get many marks or kicks as the opposition will double and triple team him, especially with slow movement of the ball.  Unless you're a real gun forward, like Fev, the key forward will struggle and for many will hurt their confidence. This is issue is more to do with structure and team selection as it is with the key forward. If we had two then the defence would have to spread to cover them you might see Casboult get up the ground more take a defender or two with him. That would open up the 50 to allow our smaller blokes space to run and kicks some goals. Results mid year proved that to be the case as compared to results early in the year with one key forward where we couldn't kick a goal or win a game. This week a chance to sort that by playing an extra key forward to replace C.Curnow and we choose Everitt. More important we have two key forwards than two ruckmen, who can't play forward and generally don't do anything when off the ball.