2019 AFL Rd 1: Carlton vs Richmond at the MCG: Post Game Passion

[sandsmere]

Setterfield was one big plus for us.
24 disposals in 66% game time. Give him 100% game time and it's around 40 disposals.
Pretty good for a kid playing his 3rd senior game.

He will be a gun.

[jeza]

Have to disagree Micky0 - we never looked like winning, not even 2 goals down. Tigers were clearly in control the whole time.

So when the tigs spent most of the third quarter trying to hack the ball out of their defense to anywhere but here they looked in total control? 

We must have been at different games.

I think we're a good chance to beat Port next week based on what I saw last night.

There seems to have been an expectation here that the 18th team from last year would beat the best team from last year.

Great to be passionate but really?

[jeza]

Setterfield was one big plus for us.
24 disposals in 66% game time. Give him 100% game time and it's around 40 disposals.
Pretty good for a kid playing his 3rd senior game.

He will be a gun.

Agree - I thought he was excellent. Made a couple of mistakes but the pressure was intense and looked composed most of the time. Super player in the making.

[jeza]

Took on the top team and beat them for disposals, clearances, smashed them in the centre clearances and tackles. With a team of relative kids.

[flyboy77]

Have to disagree Micky0 - we never looked like winning, not even 2 goals down. Tigers were clearly in control the whole time.

BS.

[flyboy77]

Quite insightful....

https://www.carltonfc.com.au/video/2019-...-postmatch

[malo]

What was with all our running under the ball for marks ??, was there Helium in the footy ?

Oh & don't get me started about the horrid little dinky kick ins after a behind....it was just a photocopy everytime & the Tigers blocked it off at the same half back spot  !!

We didn't even attempt to use the extra space available to get us further up the ground.

[Thryleon]

They got given a 4 goal head start with some generous umpiring.

1 of them was charity to Tom Lynch thanks to Jack Riewoldt flying on Liam Jones to keep him out of the contest without making a realistic attempt to mark.  He got penalised for that a couple of times later, but the damage was done.

Another was a phantom free kick, and 50 metre penalty for no good reason which put them in scoring range.

Had they umpired that evenly all night, there would have been 6 50 metre penalties that they should have paid.

Instead they put the whistle away.  There were a few bewildering decisions that you just couldnt work out, particularly surrounding incorrect disposal.



Largely, we were our own worst enemy and the fumbles cost us more than anything else did.

[PaulP]

So when the tigs spent most of the third quarter trying to hack the ball out of their defense to anywhere but here they looked in total control? 

We must have been at different games.

I think we're a good chance to beat Port next week based on what I saw last night.

There seems to have been an expectation here that the 18th team from last year would beat the best team from last year.

Great to be passionate but really?

Momentum shifts and the odd lairy moment are inevitable in any game of football, are they not ?

There was not a single moment watching that game, when I thought we would win, or could win, or deserved to win. So in that respect, yes, we probably were watching different games.

Being passionate or dispassionate is not the issue. There's a particular brand of psychedelically-laced pre season Kool Aid that seems to be very popular around here, which I simply don't drink.

People's attitudes are opinions are very entrenched. You will read folks on here who are absolutely convinced that we have a good list, a list that is not the problem, a list that can win regularly, despite the rather glaring fact that there is little evidence to support such a claim. Apart from the obvious names (Cripps, Doc) etc., most of our list is either very young or very ordinary, and any claims that it's a great list are at worst hopelessly incorrect, and at best unproven. Naturally, when the sh1t hits the fan, such posters have already convinced themselves that the coach is the problem, and on and on it goes......

[flyboy77]

People's attitudes are opinions are very entrenched.

Including, very clearly, yours Paul...