Round #4 Carlton vs St. Kilda in NZ: Pre Game prognostications

[LP]

...and how many GF's did he lose with the best player to ever play the game kicking record amounts of goals at the time?

Who won the 1995 GF? Was it the flashy forward work of Ablett and co, or was it the dour defensiveness of Silvagni and co.
(although that was Ayres, the same logic applies)

BOG on the 1995 GF was Williams, I never saw him tagging anybody.

Our next best players were Koutafides, Kernahan and Bradley, no taggers there!

I think the only defender in our top 10 on the day was Christou attacking of the HBF, hardly a dour defender!

[kruddler]

BOG on the 1995 GF was Williams, I never saw him tagging anybody.

Our next best players were Koutafides, Kernahan and Bradley, no taggers there!

I think the only defender in our top 10 on the day was Christou attacking of the HBF, hardly a dour defender!

I simply cannot take you seriously if you don't rate Silvagni's game.

In the 21 games leading up to that 1995 Grand Final, Ablett kicking 122 goals 82 behinds.
He kicked 4 goals or more in 20 of those 21 games. The exception was against Sydney in R2 where he kicked 3.3.
He had on average 9.7 shots on goal over that same period.
The last time he played us, he kicked 4.5.

In the Grand Final - he kicked 0.3. Silvagni was his opponent the entire game.
IMO he was 2nd BOG behind Diesel.

[cookie2]

Malcolm Blight won Back to Back flags with the theory that you just had to kick more goals than them  :o

Well therein lies one of our major problems - our goalkicking accuracy. We generate the inside 50s alright but either turn over the ball or miss the shot on goal all too often. The score last Sat was 11.18 to 16.9 and at one stage we had half the number of goals and twice the number of behinds than the Bummers. Says it all.

I don't have the stats for our other major problem area, but doing what Ross Lyon talks about and watching the game, when we are defending and our set defensive structures are actually  in place, we manage reasonably. The real problems come from when we try to go forward and too often turn the ball over in our forward part of the ground - we then can't respond to opposition quick counter attacks and our defence gets caught out, often badly. Best way to deal with that I guess is not to turn the ball over in the first place.

If we fixed up those two areas alone I reckon a lot of our other problems might not seem so bad.

[LP]

I simply cannot take you seriously if you don't rate Silvagni's game.

In the 21 games leading up to that 1995 Grand Final, Ablett kicking 122 goals 82 behinds.
He kicked 4 goals or more in 20 of those 21 games. The exception was against Sydney in R2 where he kicked 3.3.
He had on average 9.7 shots on goal over that same period.
The last time he played us, he kicked 4.5.

In the Grand Final - he kicked 0.3. Silvagni was his opponent the entire game.
IMO he was 2nd BOG behind Diesel.

Ablett would have had to play in defense to get more opportunities, the Mids and Forwards put Geelong to the sword!

Silvagni had 1 effective spoil. But I'll let you pump up his tyres and ignore the other Mids and Forwards, it's your version of history!

FWIW, I had Spalding as our second best on the day and by some margin, but he was light years behind Williams for BOG!

[shadesy]

Gibbs Cleared to play.

he has done some nice run with roles before :-P

[LP]

Gibbs Cleared to play.

That can't be, he hit an Essendon player! :o

[ElCapitan]

I simply cannot take you seriously if you don't rate Silvagni's game.

In the 21 games leading up to that 1995 Grand Final, Ablett kicking 122 goals 82 behinds.
He kicked 4 goals or more in 20 of those 21 games. The exception was against Sydney in R2 where he kicked 3.3.
He had on average 9.7 shots on goal over that same period.
The last time he played us, he kicked 4.5.

In the Grand Final - he kicked 0.3. Silvagni was his opponent the entire game.
IMO he was 2nd BOG behind Diesel.

Further to that, remembering back, he had a huge finals series, where he kept Merrett under wraps, gave Carey a bath and then Ablett in the GF.

I still feel his retirement, more than others, left the biggest hole that we haven't filled adequately since.

[Juddkreuzer]

That can't be, he hit an Essendon player! :o

It's Goddard so it don't count.  He cries even when he plays his old mob, f#$king sook.

[cookie2]

Further to that, remembering back, he had a huge finals series, where he kept Merrett under wraps, gave Carey a bath and then Ablett in the GF.

I still feel his retirement, more than others, left the biggest hole that we haven't filled adequately since.

Yes I agree. When he went it was the loss of a true inspiration and a massive body blow for the club. I remember how gutted I was to realise we would no longer see him playing in the navy blue.

[kruddler]

Ablett would have had to play in defense to get more opportunities, the Mids and Forwards put Geelong to the sword!

Silvagni had 1 effective spoil. But I'll let you pump up his tyres and ignore the other Mids and Forwards, it's your version of history!

FWIW, I had Spalding as our second best on the day and by some margin, but he was light years behind Williams for BOG!

Ablett actually came up to play on the wing for some stretches of the game to get a kick....yet Silvagni stopped him there too.

As i said before, if you can't see it, i can't take you seriously.

I know if i was choosing one player from that side to plug into our team now, Walker would be handing over his guernsey ASAP.