Pre-Game Potential: AFL 2019 Rd 8: Carlton vs. Collingwood

[Professer E]

Within touch at 3/4 time would be an honest effort.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Keep him out of the goalsquare. He hasn't kicked a goal from further than 5m out since round 1. Let him have 20 shots at goal. That'd be my plan.

They might do their old trick of rotating Treloar and Sidebottom through Full Forward..DeGoey has been spending a bit more time on the ball of late.

Elliott, Stephenson and Thomas might be a handful given they will be a lot quicker than anything we have playing down back.

Barker needs to earn his money and develop a strategy to stop Greenwood and Pendlebury tagging Cripps at the stoppages too and then having Pendlebury end up on his own running free...

[Gointocarlton]

So what do people consider an adequate response given the events of last week (I'm not assuming we win)?

Only adequate response is a win.

[jeza]

They might do their old trick of rotating Treloar and Sidebottom through Full Forward..DeGoey has been spending a bit more time on the ball of late.

Elliott, Stephenson and Thomas might be a handful given they will be a lot quicker than anything we have playing down back.

Barker needs to earn his money and develop a strategy to stop Greenwood and Pendlebury tagging Cripps at the stoppages too and then having Pendlebury end up on his own running free...

One positive is they don't tend to tag much. It's up to Cripps to have a better game than he did in the last 2 weeks where he's been putrid.

[Gointocarlton]

One positive is they don't tend to tag much. It's up to Cripps to have a better game than he did in the last 2 weeks where he's been putrid.

Down by his lofty standards? Yes. Putrid? No. I couldn't imagine Crippa being putrid TBH.

[ElwoodBlues1]

One positive is they don't tend to tag much. It's up to Cripps to have a better game than he did in the last 2 weeks where he's been putrid.

Yep..they tag at stoppages but back their mids in to beat their opponents....I think Cripps can dominate this week, Pies dont have that midfield bull like Cunnington
and you dont see Cripps held to too many average games and then put in another average one.
Grundy vs Krezuer will be interesting....restrict Grundy and their mids dont do nearly as well.

[flyboy77]

Only adequate response is a win.

Agreed.

[Vivian]

Even with our ins and their outs its hard to see us getting within 5 goals.

The selections make sense in our current state. But we just can't be in a position later in the year when the likes of casbolt and ed curnow are getting gifted games and delivering so little. O'Brian goes out; fair enough. He needs time to settle and nail some skills in the seconds. But he only had one less touch than ed curnow last week and one tackle more. He had one.

Should be an interesting game. Both sides like to hold onto the ball, and collingwood play a great zone. Sadly, I fear we will turn it over too much and struggle to hold the ball inside our forward line.

[spf]

Even with our ins and their outs its hard to see us getting within 5 goals.

The selections make sense in our current state. But we just can't be in a position later in the year when the likes of casbolt and ed curnow are getting gifted games and delivering so little. O'Brian goes out; fair enough. He needs time to settle and nail some skills in the seconds. But he only had one less touch than ed curnow last week and one tackle more. He had one.

Should be an interesting game. Both sides like to hold onto the ball, and collingwood play a great zone. Sadly, I fear we will turn it over too much and struggle to hold the ball inside our forward line.

Yep, pretty much my take as well. Five goals is about right for where we are, just hope we hang around most of the day and make them earn it.

[flyboy77]

Even with our ins and their outs its hard to see us getting within 5 goals.

The selections make sense in our current state. But we just can't be in a position later in the year when the likes of casbolt and ed curnow are getting gifted games and delivering so little. O'Brian goes out; fair enough. He needs time to settle and nail some skills in the seconds. But he only had one less touch than ed curnow last week and one tackle more. He had one.

Should be an interesting game. Both sides like to hold onto the ball, and collingwood play a great zone. Sadly, I fear we will turn it over too much and struggle to hold the ball inside our forward line.

Dow and Murphy should have been axed too.