2018 Rd 6: Pre Game Paranoia: Carlton vs Western Bulldogs

[flyboy77]

if that is really the best they can do (the match committee) they should resign en masse.

Laughable...

[LP]

All depends upon the game plan!

Who said that we have to do like for like?

[BlueAvenger]

Would've kept Lamb in for JJ. But hopefully the in's can bring a bit more to the table and break our duck for the year. Hope Kennedy isn't underdone again.
Was really impressed with Phillips and Zac Fisher last week. I think Fish has progressed further than SPS and the latter has stalled after a promising first season. Still love em both.
Want to see competitiveness and want to make the Dogs earn every goal.
Also wouldn't mind seeing Matty Wright hit the scoreboard ffs, has been playing a bit higher the last couple games and I reckon he reads the play real well, couple cheapies out the back would be good. Blues by 14

[DJC]

All depends upon the game plan!

Who said that we have to do like for like?

Perhaps the MC considered creating difficult match ups for the Doggies ...

My main concern is that we haven’t been sucked in to naming injured players  :-X

I thought that Garlett was very patchy last week and failed to chase on several occasions.  I’m a little surprised that he was omitted but I think it may be beneficial for him to work on his defensive pressure in the NBs.  I’m not really sure why Lamb got a recall and I don’t think he’ll be missed.

O’Shea needs to repay the MC’s faith.

[LP]

Perhaps the MC considered creating difficult match ups for the Doggies ...

My main concern is that we haven’t been sucked in to naming injured players  :-X

I thought that Garlett was very patchy last week and failed to chase on several occasions.  I’m a little surprised that he was omitted but I think it may be beneficial for him to work on his defensive pressure in the NBs.  I’m not really sure why Lamb got a recall and I don’t think he’ll be missed.

O’Shea needs to repay the MC’s faith.

Well, you always know it will be dry and ideal conditions at Etihad, so why not try something a bit different and take lots of marks and draw lots of frees from undersized defenders.

I'm waiting to see something different from us, our game plan suiting our playing list, not just a copy of the stuff everybody else is doing!

Over the last couple of years I've really started to doubt the intelligence of AFL coaching panels in general, the bulk of them seem to be followers not trend setters, and they try to follow game plans not suited to the playing list they have available.

[ianh]

All depends upon the game plan!

Who said that we have to do like for like?

No-one says we have to do like for like - but when we seem already to be taller and slower than them, on Etihad and at night why do we go taller and slower?

Perhaps the MC considered creating difficult match ups for the Doggies ...

Sound point, but what match-uo difficulties in particular?  I get going tall up forward gives us a height advantage, but the risk is if marks aren't taken (and on recent history they usually aren't) that opens up the Doggies chance to run from defence against our taller & slower forwards.  To my mind a risky strategy and not one I am overly keen on. But what is worse is that instead we seem to have loaded up on key defenders against a team that has ONE key forward.  We may well have them massively outgunned in the air in our defence but what if they don't bomb it in but instead lower the eyes?  At ground level and on the lead we risk being cut up badly with that line-up.

Anyway that is my amateur observers 2 cents worth, I certainly hope to be proved wrong.   

[LP]

No-one says we have to do like for like - but when we seem already to be taller and slower than them, on Etihad and at night why do we go taller and slower?

Etihad is always ideal conditions, hot or cold, day or night, it's never any different unless the idiots leave the roof open in the lead up to a game and it rains!

If tall forwards cannot mark the ball in the dry, uniform lighting, almost windless conditions of Etihad, you may as well find some replacements!

The media bang on about diminishing skills, but FFS, half the AFL clubs train indoors now when it rains, so unfamiliar it is for them to play in drizzly conditions.

As for running out of defense, you can only run out of defense when you have space to run into, and free opponents up the field to overlap with.

Although I'm a bit confused about the omissions, because superficially I would peg Garlett and Lamb as two of our better defensive forwards. A couple of weeks back I had Marchbank listed as one of the main offenders who failed to chase when we turned the ball over, Lamb was also one I listed but playing him out of position was the problem there, Plowman, Simmo, Cripps, Casboult were also going at 50% in one direction much of the time. Now Cripps is captain! :o

[cookie2]

We have them covered as far as them kicking long to a F50 target is concerned so our mids have to really smother their forward run in the defensive arc ahead of our D50 and into the centre of the ground. My guess then is that our mids won't try to press too far forward tonight.

[flyboy77]

Interesting that the Dog's key backs are Aaron Naughton (5 gamer, 1st season and 195cm, 89kg) and Eaton Wood (187cm, 86kg).....or Cordy at 193cm (90kg).

Compare to Big H (203cm, 100kg) and Levi (201cm, 103kg).

Get the ball in fast and our lads can have a field day! as long as they work hard defensively too!!

Blues by 34.

Harry and/or Levi to kick 6. 

[flyboy77]

Fishwr extends till end of 2021!  8)

http://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2018-04...r-signs-on