Rd 14: Post Game Palliative care: Carlton vs Richmond

[LP]

Forward pressure was disgraceful. Richmond defenders have exposed us in this regard for a couple of years now.

It seems they know how to have us hearing footsteps even when there aren't any. The silly thing is our defence seems to stand up very well against them, or at least it has in all but one game.

I thought our midfield was ordinary last weekend, they won plenty of the ball but subjectively I think the efficiency would be well down.

Overall, I think we have become way to predictable when we are playing Nthmond in recent years. I can't count how many times we chose to kick to the Rance option, by the end of the game I was mocking us by calling the kick to the Rance zone before it happened! Even when we had options open across the field we kicked to Rance.

[maxm68]

That is straight out of the Hodge handbook... but I am such a good bloke! :

2 weeks for knocking a bloke out with a backhander... farrking joke.

oh well - we know the rules now so when we make the granny ( in a couple years ) word up a couple of our good ( we have plenty of them ) nice clean players to unleash in the 1st quarter and away we go.... The 17th flag can be won with 22 against 20.....bang

[JonHenry]

It seems they know how to have us hearing footsteps even when there aren't any. The silly thing is our defence seems to stand up very well against them, or at least it has in all but one game.

I thought our midfield was ordinary last weekend, they won plenty of the ball but subjectively I think the efficiency would be well down.

Overall, I think we have become way to predictable when we are playing Nthmond in recent years. I can't count how many times we chose to kick to the Rance option, by the end of the game I was mocking us by calling the kick to the Rance zone before it happened! Even when we had options open across the field we kicked to Rance.

I thought our defence was opened up pretty convincingly last week.
Not their fault, because there was no pressure applied up field, but if Richmond kicked straight, we would have been flogged.

Rance was given 6 Frees for last week.
The umpires love him.
We must have kicked it to him 10 times.

[kruddler]

Forward pressure was disgraceful.

EFA

[LP]

So now we know retrospectively that we were one player down due to concussion, and had a second player struggling for aerobic recovery due to a "mysteriously bruised larynx" which left him hospitalized after the game and out this week.

[crashlander]

The mysterious bruised larynx does open things to question, when Curnow's opponent has a good patch (so much that some scribes called him BOG) after he goes off. 1973 tactics still appear to work.

[BluePhantom]

The mysterious bruised larynx does open things to question, when Curnow's opponent has a good patch (so much that some scribes called him BOG) after he goes off. 1973 tactics still appear to work.

A..holes >

[Baggers]

So now we know retrospectively that we were one player down due to concussion, and had a second player struggling for aerobic recovery due to a "mysteriously bruised larynx" which left him hospitalized after the game and out this week.

Mmmm, a bloke gets a bruised larynx during a game... mmm... just happens to be an effective tagger ...mmm... I suspect we haven't heard the last of this episode and on the inner sanctum I'm better our club knows exactly what happened ... mmm.

[LP]

Mmmm, a bloke gets a bruised larynx during a game... mmm... just happens to be an effective tagger ...mmm... I suspect we haven't heard the last of this episode and on the inner sanctum I'm better our club knows exactly what happened ... mmm.

Is it purely by accident that in a game where one player gets a backhander to the head another gets a bruised larynx?

I suspect the AFL umpires are going to take a very very close look at Mr Nthmond in the coming weeks.