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went today with expectations of a win. Terrible and embarrassing. It's been covered, but Polson? Really? No ruck, really?. When do skill errors become plain lack of skills? The number of kicks to disadvantage, missed handballs, dropped marks, missed tackles seems very high.
Cute flashy play looks good except when it doesn't work, which is most of the time.
One other thing - get rid of the bounce. There are to many times it needs to be recalled.
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(03-31-2018, 06:44 AM)PaulP link Wrote:I believed that we would finish 13-16, and I stand by that.
Would you call that progress? You’re easily pleased if you do.....
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(03-31-2018, 06:49 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:The players wore double black arm bands, has been stated why?
The death of season 2018.....
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(03-31-2018, 11:01 AM)cookie2 link Wrote:Also, they were all over us when we got into our F50 and choked us off time and time again. They seemed to get back so quickly as soon as we got possession.
They were playing seven in defense causing lots of congestion and ran really hard off half back.
Docherty is a much bigger loss for our team than anyone can realise.
It was the sort of game we needed a big defense splitting presence like Levi (or maybe harry McKay).... Too bad we had him pencilled into the ruck and played weitering forward rather than bringing in a ruckman (Phillips) or perhaps another leading forward (jack Silvagni who?).
the match committee had a few options and took the one least likely to do either of win or develop our youngsters which resulted in nothing but an opportunity lost.
I can forgive not winning. I hate the fact that we went the recycled untested tactic rather than playing the kids properly.
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unfortunately it's reality. Take a side that finished 16th with a percentage of 70, remove two of their best players (Docherty and Gibbs), what do you expect? Especially today with Kreuzer out as well
Did folks notice that a number of times the umpires called for the Carlton ruck to nominate and were left with no response.
I think there was one time when Daisy went to contest and was told to stay out of it.
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(03-31-2018, 10:40 AM)jeza link Wrote:That was an epic cluster fck of a game.
Whoever was in charge of team selection wants to be let go immediately.
Half the team was played out of position, no ruck and the INs were awful.
Polson - way off AFL level. Cunningham had a shocker.
O'Shea wasn't great.
Gave that game up.
I think that's a fair summary. Disappointing but fair :-\
At a stretch we can consider the increased i50 count as a step fwd in that area. Albeit the entries were often shallow, attempting to hit up a non-existent forward structure.
Bolts and the boys have much work ahead of them. Our selectors have even more work imo. If the pies play like they did today next week, we'll see a replay of the shameful MM 700 era. THAT will not attract players, members, or organizations to the club. Unfortunately I think our injuries are taking a toll that we have no depth to cover.
It will be a painful exercise reviewing the game. The upside is there will be a truckload of learning :-\
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Keeping together is progress.
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armbands- one was for Ken Hands and the other for a previous coach (can't remember ago they said)
