Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 20: Carlton vs. West Coast

[townsendcalling]

When you are a team in our position and you have 6+ ‘walkups’ out, you’re going to struggle against a top team. To hang in there, and go down by 4 goals is no disgrace. Add Curnow, Kruezer, Marchbank, Jones, Doherty, Thomas, McGovern and the result might have been even closer!!

[Micky0]

Some of our players seemed nervous - did they not believe they were in with a Chance?

[PaulP]

When you are a team in our position and you have 6+ ‘walkups’ out, you’re going to struggle against a top team. To hang in there, and go down by 4 goals is no disgrace. Add Curnow, Kruezer, Marchbank, Jones, Doherty, Thomas, McGovern and the result might have been even closer!!

Yes, it's possible. It's also possible WC could have found another gear against a team with those ins. There's many possibilities. If you take out the variables, and just assess the game as a game, it wasn't too flash, and apart from very brief periods we never looked like getting close to winning. It was, in my view, too much left to too few.

[PaulP]

And credit's where it's due. Liam Ryan's mark was super.

[ElwoodBlues1]

And credit's where it's due. Liam Ryan's mark was super.

Not bad for a State League hack is he....

[PaulP]

Not bad for a State League hack is he....

No, not bad at all.

[Baggers]

We met a premiership contender in very good form. Our blokes had a crack but lacked efficiency and the experience to know when to manipulate the game's tempo. Very costly 2nd qtr, virtually even after half time - not bad for a group missing more than 33% of their 'walk up start' players.

Knowing that we'll probably have Jones, Kreuzer, Cuningham, Thomas and Dow available for our next game will be a bonus.

I wonder if anyone has dared ask themselves if DT could possibly be the next Clarkson/Parkin etc.? At this stage I hope the club realizes that they've actually got someone here who knows what he's doing.

[cookie2]

Yes we are on an upward trajectory but WC are way ahead of us atm, a very talented side in all depts. I wasn't too surprised by the result tbh and considering the depths we have been plumbing up until recently the result was as good as we could reasonably hoped for. We were playing a likely premiership outfit and we weren't blown away by any means.

I think too many of our F50 entries played into their hands and were easily repelled by their talented defenders too often leading to turnover goals.

[flyboy77]

We were garbage.

Soft, lazy, inept bordering on simply stupid for vast chunks of the game. Plenty of bludgers thinking their s#$t doesn't stink....Simmo one of the few shining lights.

Gob smacked that LOB keeps getting a game. miles off the pace....

The delivery into F50 was as bad as anything under Bolton....

our poor ball use killed it (the contest). Made it dead easy for the Weagles to run the ball.

Thought DT got slaughtered tactically. And I saw sfa changes tactically during the game.

The 4 goal margin flattered us greatly.

Apart from 10 minutes in Q1 we were deplorable quite frankly.

[ElwoodBlues1]

WC were in second gear most of the game IMO and were clearly the better team, nothing to do with Teague's coaching either, they just have more quality on the park.
eg They could sacrifice a star like Yeo to follow Cripps around but still have another class onballer in Shuey doing the business.
I thought Weitering was very good on Kennedy and Newman had a day out kicking four goals, Philips battled on and it was fairly even in the ruck....WC ball use is very good, most of the their players kick the ball well and they are a well drilled team.
New kid Schumacher got a rough deal starting on Ryan and found the physical side of the game very hard, I really felt for him when he got driven into the ground by Yeo
who is solid unit and that would have hurt but he battled on and he does kick the ball ok.
Walsh started very well and continues to be consistent, Murphy was ok, Plowman had a tough job on Darling, the latter outbodied Philips for a ruck contest goal which tells you how strong he is for a 190cm player and it was the same all over the ground with WC having a lot of developed bigger bodies.
Scoreboard flattered us and we had a few non contributors and need our best team on the park to compete with the heavyweight teams like WC.