Post Game Parley-2019 AFL Rd 2: Carlton vs Port Adelaide:

[cookie2]

SPS spent a lot of time as a defender today for menI think itbwas his best game I have seen him play. We stuck at it but Port just too mature and strong for us. Encouraged by our efforts but was the rain the great leveller?

[madbluboy]

SPS is a class player and will get better.

Murphy and Simpson are holding us back. Time to chop the dead wood.

[BluePhantom]

I hate Port, I hate losing, I hate every team we lose to.
Therefore I hate 17 other teams  > >

[jeza]

Samo played 3 quarters of an excellent game. Went completely missing for 1 quarter there.

Jeeeeeeeeez..... those umpires.

Plowman gets position on Ebert in the goalsquare - no worries - just grab his jumper and throw him out of the way. Goal.

Harry looks like touching his opponent in the ruck - goal.

At least 3 more but those were blatant.

Gov burned Harry in the square once and Polson snapped when Walsh had a set shot from 30m straight in front.


One that got away.

[jeza]

SPS is a class player and will get better.

Murphy and Simpson are holding us back. Time to chop the dead wood.

Plowman did so well keeping Gray quiet but was a complete liability at other times. Ducked his head and dropped an easy mark early - pathetic.

[rocky]

I reckon we are still carrying around 5 (Garlett, Fasolo, Murphy, Gibbons & Simpson). Thought we fought it out to the end. The 2nd quarter cost us dearly. At least the drug cheats lost again. Makes our loss a little less painful.

[kruddler]

SPS is a class player and will get better.

Murphy and Simpson are holding us back. Time to chop the dead wood.

Cmon mate, enough.

Murphy may not be an elite talent, but he is better than any blokes in position 23-46 at the club, and thus he stays in the side. I don't care if we use him exclusively as a FP, but chopping them solves nothing.

Simpson coming under fire is even more laughable. Talk about heart and soul. Bloke never dies wondering and never stops running. He might have his deficiencies, but i'd prefer to have 22 Simmos in the side than just about any other side of 22 'player x' from our list.
At his age, we shouldn't be relying on him so much, but you can't tell him to ease up as he only has 1 gear, flat out.

Ed Curnow should be shown the door before those 2. I hope he is carrying an injury or 4, because if this is what we can expect from here, i worry for his spot in the side. He should be in his prime.

[jeza]

and I'll even credit my whipping boy Polson witha good goal and he made a good tackle or two as well and wasnt our worst.

Good post.

Set up 2 more goals with good handballs under pressure.

Almost made it into the top half of our possession getters with 14. His best game... though some glaring errors.

[Barbs]

The Plowman dilemma - too small to be a tall defender, too slow to be a half back.
Sure he tries, but so do I. And I’m not playing in the AFL.

[Barbs]

I reckon we are still carrying around 5 (Garlett, Fasolo, Murphy, Gibbons & Simpson). Thought we fought it out to the end. The 2nd quarter cost us dearly. At least the drug cheats lost again. Makes our loss a little less painful.

Garlett is improving but still short of being the player we need him to be. Might be worth persevering with because who else is going to come in and do better? Might be worth trying him forward too.