Post Game Parlay: AFL 2019 Rd 15: Carlton vs Melbourne

[dodge]

They started today as they trained at the open session yesterday - missed handballs,  not catching a handball, plenty of ordinary kicks.

We should have lost by heaps today if the Dees took their chances.  Credit to our boys for not giving it away and somehow hanging in there.

Don't use the Demons misfortunes to denigrate our last quarter, though.  Wouldn't it be nice if we could bring our last quarter to a while game.  We seem to go better as the opposition tires a bit.

[PaulP]

I would have liked to steal the game, but it would have been theft. We were very ordinary for a lot of the game.

Yes indeedy. I can't figure out which is worse - maintaining a lead most of the game and then losing in the dying seconds like Suns and Hawks, or trailing most of the game and having to play break neck footy in the dying minutes, and still losing. It's like two ends of a spectrum, with a yawning chasm in between.

[Micky0]

Yeah plow shits me.

Constantly expecting more from him and mostly get disappointed.

[crashlander]

Smashed in the middle for most of the game, not sure how you can blame the forwards?

SPS, Dow, Fisher, Setterfield all high draft picks and all crap today.

Started in the ruck: Preuss showed what a good player he really is. Kreuzer tried, and did better in the last quarter, but Preuss gave their mids an armchair ride.
Then, our mids couldn't get near their opponents. Setterfield just about had Fritsch as BOG with his horrible start.
Their mids are bigger and more mature, and we lacked Cripps. But we really need to give Cripps more help.
So many players did so little today. Very disappointing.
And our disposal.

[shawny]

Newman gets a lot of the ball which is the first part but geez he hands it straight back way too often. Like the fact he keeps taking it on but just has to reduce the amount of clangers as they just kill us.

Can’t wait to see doc back - will be a different team with him being the main man running out of defence setting us up.

Don’t think we are miles off. Add the right players in this years trade period and could see a massive jump next season.

[Lods]

Yes indeedy. I can't figure out which is worse - maintaining a lead most of the game and then losing in the dying seconds like Suns and Hawks, or trailing most of the game and having to play break neck footy in the dying minutes, and still losing. It's like two ends of a spectrum, with a yawning chasm in between.

Coming from behind and falling short is much better.
We really didn't deserve to get as close as we did...shows a bit of character to come back.
Losing after leading for most of the game shows a fragility.

[RiverRat]

Plowman should be banned from kicking in duties and Newman is only marginally better.

Interesting use of Kennedy the past two rounds - I wonder if Teague is using him as a forward on the basis of the reclamation process that helped Brock McLean resuscitate his career after beginning similarly ineffective and too slow as a midfielder.

[PaulP]

Coming from behind and falling short is much better.
We really didn't deserve to get as close as we did...shows a bit of character to come back.
Losing after leading for most of the game shows a fragility.

I think they both show something negative. You could reasonably argue that coming from behind and falling short shows something negative at the front end. In fact the more I think about it, the more I think the opposite is better. Leading most of the game shows you are doing a few things right and have the opposition's measure.

[LP]

Plowman should be banned from kicking in duties and Newman is only marginally better.

Interesting use of Kennedy the past two rounds - I wonder if Teague is using him as a forward on the basis of the reclamation process that helped Brock McLean resuscitate his career after beginning similarly ineffective and too slow as a midfielder.

Newman despite a incredulous clanger played well, if we didn't have him mopping up we'd have lost by 5 or 10 goals.

McLean was a gun midfielder playing in a selfish team, he was probably as good if not better than Carrazzo as an inside mid while comfortably being a better kick, and McLean worked as hard as any player in the AFL to create space and provide an option, but our blokes wouldn't kick the football to him, instead they would opt to bomb it 60m onto the outnumbered head of Betts so that Eddie could win one in every 10 contests!

[PaulP]

I never understood the hate for Brock.