2017 Rd 9: Post Game Patter: Carlton vs Fremantle

[shadesy]

Dont think it was the weather...Freo's best 4 players had the ball around 30 times each, thats why we lost IMO and being caught on the rebound for some easy goals.....Neale had it 37 times...you wont win many games when the opposing teams best players have so much ball....

Definitely not.

Our Centre Set ups were awful and it started with our Leaders. Gibbs, Murph and Cripps in the middle of the ground were pounded. I would love to us have mixed it up with SPS, Charlie or Cunningham in the middle. They couldn't do much worse.

I walked away thinking exactly the same. There better players Neale, Walters, Fyfe, Johnson were better than our players. Ross has been using Walters around the ball a lot and it's a great move, Fyfe was way better than his stats suggested, and Neale just knocks up getting it.

We were smashed around the ball from quarter time and were always on the back foot.

Other notes:

- Small Defender - Small forwards are killing us all year. Matera, Billings, Walters/Crozier etc
- Locking the Ball in our forward line - I think our stats had 14 inside 50 tackles to 2. In the last quarter we pressed and had some good looks inside 50, only for it to just hit the floor and bounce back out. So we need to find some pressure forwards as well.
- Young - The scoreboard kept flashing stats of some of our players... 19,19,20, 21, 19. We are so young. Plow made some bad errors, but you can live with that as you know these guys will learn.
- Jack's Goal Kicking - needs to work on it if he wants to become a forward of note.
- Doc was immense.