Rd 1 Carlton vs Richmond Post Game Prognostications

[ElwoodBlues1]

Anyone else irked by all the missed tackles last night? I thought it was a major issue.

Irked by the fact Martin scared our players and they didnt want to tackle him......we still lack sufficient -players who can play the game when it gets physical....

[DJC]

Anyone else irked by all the missed tackles last night? I thought it was a major issue.

I thought that some of our tackling was pretty good; we generally tackled with intent and let the Tigers know that they were in for some treatment.  Our tackling in the forward 50 was good; 8 to 4.  However, we lost the tackle count 51 to 60 and the seven players who spent most of the game in defence had seven tackles between them.

The midfielders led the way and, while I wouldn't want them to ease off, we really need others to contribute, particularly the blokes who aren't touching the pill.  Someone like White should really be using his size and strength to bring opponents down and everyone should be working harder to make their tackles stick.

[PaulP]

I thought that some of our tackling was pretty good; we generally tackled with intent and let the Tigers know that they were in for some treatment.  Our tackling in the forward 50 was good; 8 to 4.  However, we lost the tackle count 51 to 60 and the seven players who spent most of the game in defence had seven tackles between them.

The midfielders led the way and, while I wouldn't want them to ease off, we really need others to contribute, particularly the blokes who aren't touching the pill.  Someone like White should really be using his size and strength to bring opponents down and everyone should be working harder to make their tackles stick.

Fair post DJC. I saw some terrific tackling, and some slack / non existent tackling as well.

[BluePhantom]

Fair post DJC. I saw some terrific tackling, and some slack / non existent tackling as well.

BB will see all this in the reviews and highlight the NON-TEAM actions and compare them to the selflessness actions.
The passengers will be weeded out and be playing in the magoos.

ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR CARLTON!

[laj]

Why would we want someone who can't kick and is soft?

Or, on the other hand, someone who can take a mark and kick straight.

[laj]

Levi is a coach killer...he can take 10 marks and you would eb lucky to see 2 goals next to his name, Everitt is everything you say, lazy, just wants easy ball, takes his eyes offf the footy when theri is heat in the area but if you give him 4 marks near goal he will kick three goals....

Levi will stay in the team by default for a while but he has to go..I'd rather see Jaksch developed as a leading FF and McKay as our CHF and have Philips or Gorrings as the 2nd ruckman....

Everitt will be traded out IMO at seasons end....

Could've traded Everitt last year but didn't. Thing is he hits the scoreboard more than any player we have. We've become a laughing stock giving away our goalkickers so best not give any more away. Everitt, for all his faults, could kick 30-40, especially in a side better than last year. You won't give that away for anything. He did play 3 finals in 2013 and went well.

Casboult does plenty of good things. If he could only get his kicking even half right (take "half right" as he's never going to be a great kick from 25m) then he could do some damage as he is always going to takes marks and get a few shots at goal. Changes so much if he could as that's 2-3 goals. Maybe if he marks 20m out he can go back and kick it from 50m...lol. He's pretty good from out there. Eventually the likes of McKay, Jaksch and C.Curnow will take over but that's a couple of years away in a couple of those cases. By then Casboult might have over 100 games, with good service, a bonus for a key forward taken way down the rookie list. He needs a second key forward to help him. Not sure he's that good that he can take the whole defence coming to him as our only key forward.

[PaulP]

Why would we want someone who can't kick and is soft?

I'm not sure if you're being ironic, but I meant splicing their good qualities together. (as Jimbo has worked out).

[jeza]

Anyone else irked by all the missed tackles last night? I thought it was a major issue.

This was the difference between the first and second halves. First half we tackled the crap out of them... the tiring of our players was noticeable.

Still really not sure how we didn't win that game. Even with their straighter kicking I thought we so far the better than team we should have won by 3-4 goals.

[PassIt2Carrots]

Did anyone else think Kreuz was rather disappointing? Or just average anyway.

[BluePhantom]

Did anyone else think Kreuz was rather disappointing? Or just average anyway.

I would've thought he did a fair bit off the ball?
Pity he didn't take some more marks inside the 50.

Some of the balls coming in to our forward line it looked like we had too many going for the mark and spoiling each other.