Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 4: Carlton vs. Gold Coast

[JonHenry]

Setters and Dow to the 2s.

The first to learn how to influence a game again, the latter to learn how to kick (again?).

LOB too.

Kennedy, SoJ and Gibbons into the guts.

Garlett into a small forward role.

Players TOLD to kick to the TALL blokes - not the small blokes - in the forward 50. Kind of surprised this message hadn't been imparted earlier in their careers!  : :

Perhaps the tall blokes can wear a special flouro badge!!

Get Willo back in ASAP, even if at Simmo's expense.

And big Matty K in ASAP. The smiling assassin.

Not cute dinky kicks - I think 9 out of every 10 screwed up spectacularly yesterday! (and all the mids were (trying to) do it bar Crippa)

Our young mids:

Zac Fisher                       11 9 20 3 0 0 0 4 1 1 83
12Sam Petrevski-Seton 6 12 18 2 0 0 1 7 0 0 73
13Will Setterfield       14 2 16 8 0 0 3 2 0 1 70
14Paddy Dow                 7 13 20 3 0 0 0 3 0 1 69

Lochie O'Brien               10 0 10 6 0 0 1 3 0 0 57
19Michael Gibbons       12 4 16 3 0 1 4 1 0 3 49


Samo 7 tackles the rest pffft. Sam Walsh had 6....are the others simply not working hard enough, are they ball watching, but they need to change their ways...compare to King Crippa, 12 tackles - not bad for a slow bloke!!!

Patrick Cripps               15 15 30 8 0 4 0 12 2 0 163

Charlie Curnow needs a serious wake up call.
He should be running harder than Nick Reiwolt did.
Reading far too many articles about himself.

[PaulP]

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/4-po...51e3l.html

[capcom]

Doesn't look like the general frustration at the loss is in any danger of subsiding.  Neither should it.

Again, what is the tipping point before the club says "enough"?  Not that I trust the hierarchy either ... AT ALL ! 

At times, I think they just don't understand the culture and the massive support upon which they rely.  Far better men before you placed their faith in in you to maintain a standard for excellence, a hallmark of our history. 

[tonyo]

Mollycoddling has to end now.  Get out the Weed n' Feed and find out how many of the green shoots are fair dinkum keepers.  Our players need to get angry and stop playing frightened football.  There were times in the last quarter where it looked like some of the team didn't want to get involved in case they stuffed up.

And as for delivery into the forward line, if our forwards did a bit more than stand there with one hand in the air like the Statue of Liberty (and moving about as fast), it might give the guys upfield a sense of where to kick it!!!!

[laj]

That sums it up Lods and it’s hard to see how Gold Coast has managed three wins  :o

I thought that we had the better tactics but the advantage we gleaned from that was negated by poor delivery and some rookie mistakes from our first and second year players (Walsh excluded).

Bolton’s next task must be to lock Cameron Bruce and David Teague in a room until they have a common understanding of how the midfield and forward line will work together.

I can understand Teague's absolute frustration as forwards coach. How do you coach to the $hit coming from up the ground.

[laj]

3AW sports editor says that CFC powerbrokers "and there are plenty of them" have given BB 4 to 8 weeks to show a dramatic improvement in the team or he is gone.

Interesting how much there is to that.

[deags]

Ironic?

I've probably been Daisy's bandwagon #1 ticket holder since the day he was recruited....and reason being was because he would show the rest of our rabble how to go about it, continually.

It was never about how good of a player he was/is/will be, it was about effort, brains and work rate. He has been to the top of the tree and knows whats required to get there. We cannot say the same of any other player on the list.

We need more daisy types on the list, and we'll 'magically' improve.

Like, Like, Like!!!

[Thryleon]

This is what I hate about stats watchers. They re-write history to suit their narrative. Watch the game and see Murphy's lackluster tackling efforts and general commitment to the cause and then make a comment. Don't just look at his stats and say, gee he had 29 touches, a good day out in anyone's language.

I could get 29 touches if I ran around, freely with no tag mind you, and presented like he did getting those cheap kicks in the back line like he did. Then he'd provide a 10-15 metre kick to the wing and would select the easiest option, something that wouldn't necessarily generate anything of note for the team, but would definitely pad out his stat sheet. F##k me, watch the game not the stats!

His last kick was just the icing on the cake for a forgettable soft non-committal game like he normally provides, yet is lauded for. I just don't get it, what are you people seeing. Are you that disconnected from reality that you rely on stats to prove a players worth and contribution to a game?

Paul Roos praised Murphy's and ed curnow's workrate during the game yesterday.

Bloke has forgotten more about football than we'll ever know.

[JonHenry]

Paul Roos praised Murphy's and ed curnow's workrate during the game yesterday.

Bloke has forgotten more about football than we'll ever know.

Yet never coached one Swans player to emulate Murphy's style....

[Lods]

Paul Roos praised Murphy's and ed curnow's workrate during the game yesterday.

Bloke has forgotten more about football than we'll ever know.

He's probably thinking he may be working more directly with them in the future.