Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 17: Carlton vs. Sydney

[laj]

https://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2019-0...erformance

[laj]

Just looking at Levi's last qtr goal. Come off the boot very well, then the wind blew it one way towards the behinds, the it blew back the other way to go through. Must've been windy as all f.

[flyboy77]

The Horse reckoned windiest (game) day ever! In his time..

Gee I like how Teague talks - no cliches, no BS....just honest simplicity.

[flyboy77]

Gee Levi played another bloody good game and could have been brilliant bar a few dropped marks.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Good team win and to beat the Swans on their home deck is probably worth six points, Teague got a little bit out of every player nearly today which is
the sign of a good coach and what you need to win the tough close games.
Not pretty to watch but how good is it to be winning more than we lose, been a long while since we have been this competitive.
Newman vs his old mob seemed to lift another gear and Casboult is reborn as a player..

[bratblue]

Gee Levi played another bloody good game and could have been brilliant bar a few dropped marks.

He's a very valuable player now, there must be a few recruiters wondering why they couldn't see that potential and go for him when he was on the trade table. Most om this forum had him pegged.

Haven't seem anyone calling Murf soft since Teague took over.............

[jeza]

I feel like I have literally watched a replay of every time we've lost to the Swans for the last 10 years.

Our mids refuse to man up for the entire match. Zone / 10-15m away from their opponents and the Swans just chip the ball through us all day.

It was one of the most disappointing matches I think I've ever watched and I include 90+ point hammerings in that. It's like we have no understanding of the most basic elements required to win a game of football. If you're sitting there on the coaching panel watching the way the Swans very simply chipped their way through our team over and over and over and did nothing to stop it - what are you doing there.

Forget talent/age - this has nothing to do with that - it's just effort. If the coaches instruction is to run that extra 10m to shut down the only option the Swans ball carrier has and the player doesn't follow that instruction then the coach should be dragging you and send you to the VFL the next week and finding someone else to do it.

My suspicion is our coaching performance was seriously sub-par. I have practically never criticised Bolton but this game was winnable and I don't know if Bolton knows how to extract the performance required to win a game any more.

The above were my comments from after the Rd 3 Sydney match.

I reckon this has pretty much proven out now.

Bolton simply lost any ability he had as a match day coach to pull the right moves OR extract a consistent level of effort from the players.

Lovely bloke but I remember that round 3 game as the one where I started to draw the conclusion on Bolton.

[Mantis]

Murphy in an interview after the game against the Swans had a simple conclusion to how we are coached to play games. A simple game plan that is easy to execute, and every player knows his exact role. Teague has indicated the same in his interview. You execute you role exactly to instructions. No ifs or buts.

[laj]

The above were my comments from after the Rd 3 Sydney match.

I reckon this has pretty much proven out now.

Bolton simply lost any ability he had as a match day coach to pull the right moves OR extract a consistent level of effort from the players.

Lovely bloke but I remember that round 3 game as the one where I started to draw the conclusion on Bolton.

Just dug this off another site...... "My son in law played under Bolts when he coached the then Tassie Devils in the VFL ,and he said that he coached like a school teacher (totally controlling ) and was very very stubborn on his thoughts of how the game should be played . I think this was probably his ultimate downfall . Having said that I wish him all the best for the future and believe that he had the very best of intentions for the club and players."

[crashlander]

Free kicks? My God!