2017 Round 4 : Post Game thread - Carlton V Gold Coast

[crashlander]

I disagree that Ablett 'killed us'. Many of his possessions were cheap handball receives at the back of the mark, and 1-2 combos, the only impact of which were to inflate his possession count.

Ablett's clearances in the 3rd quarter were the things that hurt us.
One really bad sign for GC was that most of their midfielders got a huge number of handball receives. It suggests that they did NOT get their own ball. And considering how many possessions they got, when over 50% come from handball receives, it suggests that they may not like it against this year's top echelon.
In fact, it looks like many of the GC mids were basing their game on Ablett's, and that included a huge number of junk possessions.

It was also clear that we were NOT manning Ablett closely. Ed Curnow spent very little time on him. At times, Simon White was on him.