Post Game Pandemonium!: AFL 2020 Rd 8: Carlton vs North

[cookie2]

Yes, agree, but I see it more as baby steps than most.

We surely have to be very careful of getting too far ahead of ourselves. If we could get a taste of finals this year it would be very good for our development - as long as we don't get slaughtered that is!

[PaulP]

No one is saying we are bloody awesome, there are quite obviously some big issues to sort out.  The lack of being about to put 4 quarters together consistently is the obvious one.

But to say it’s not completely different to when BB coached, is a fallacy.  I was a BB fan but he did not have the team playing like they are now. Teague and the players say, he tells them to take it on, make a mistake in the process but try and try again.  Footy is very much about confidence.  Had cunners kicked that goal an extra metre last week, we would’ve won.  He took his opportunity yesterday in an Ugly wet scrap, and got it that time.  The belief and confidence for him to do that again after last week, is a credit to the coach.

Time to let the BB era go.  I believed in him and his process but it didn’t yield results and ultimately the players didn’t believe in it either.  They are on board the D-train And grinding out those wins, after a heartbreaker of a loss last week, can only be a positive for that team.  Sure I’m frustrated we didn’t annihilate them but as someone else said, Port lost in Adelaide to Sts last night, maybe the game last week drained both teams.

Teague has tweaked the game plan, but it is most certainly not completely different. I posted analysis from Champion Data late last year which showed this quite clearly - plus comments from Teague, plus comments from players, plus comments from assistant coaches. It's more front half, and Teague is more "player empowerment", but it's not completely different.

[PaulP]

We surely have to be very careful of getting too far ahead of ourselves. If we could get a taste of finals this year it would be very good for our development - as long as we don't get slaughtered that is!

Maybe. I'm not really a fan of teams that just make up the numbers in finals, limping in with unconvincing form, then being bundled out in straight sets. I really don't see much difference between such teams and those that hang around just outside the 8. Though I certainly agree that it would help the development to play a final.

[LoveNavy]

Really enjoying Will Setterfield's growth this season.
His awareness and vision, particularly in attack is matched by his skilful kicking and handballing. He's been building week by week. Well done to young Will ?

[kruddler]

I disagree. Good teams win consistently, display consistent good form, beat the better teams more often than not, and put weaker teams to the sword.

So thats what good teams do. Fair enough.

On the other side of the coin...
Bad team lose consistently, display inconsistent form, lose to worse teams more often than not and struggle to put any teams to the sword.

I give you carlton in 2019 (and 2018....) under Bolton.

I find it staggering that you use this as a 'reason' Teague has done little, and at the same time giving a clinical definition of Carlton under his coaching efforts.

[kruddler]

Really enjoying Will Setterfield's growth this season.
His awareness and vision, particularly in attack is matched by his skilful kicking and handballing. He's been building week by week. Well done to young Will ?

Its amazing what a decent pre-season does and not judging him after his first season coming back from a knee injury.

[PaulP]

So thats what good teams do. Fair enough.

On the other side of the coin...
Bad team lose consistently, display inconsistent form, lose to worse teams more often than not and struggle to put any teams to the sword.

I give you carlton in 2019 (and 2018....) under Bolton.

I find it staggering that you use this as a 'reason' Teague has done little, and at the same time giving a clinical definition of Carlton under his coaching efforts.

As we have seen with Clarkson, even the greatest coach can't do much with average cattle and kids. I have heard many coaches say that 80% of coaching is done during the week, and there's little they can do o match day, especially now with limited runners.

Take out 30 odd games of experience from the kids, take out PIttonet, Martin, Betts etc., and put in their place Lobbe, Phillips, Mullet, O'Shea, Smedts and many others. Take a hard line long term view on development, and specifically give kids games and tough assignments, leaving oldies on the periphery. Give all that to Clarkson, or Teague, and get back to me.

[Professer E]

I'd like to extend a big middle finger ? to the sycophants in the football media piling onto Marc Murphy for 'flopping'.  Sure,  he may have gone down fast but it was totally unnecessary contact. Get a grip tossers, we've been on the end of putrid umpiring for a long time... Where's the hue and cry about the studs up mark?  Reet reet... Crickets. 

[ElwoodBlues1]

I suppose then the timing was perfect for the white-ants to pounce and claim all the glory.

I think there is a significant overconfidence in Liddle, Lloyd and cronies, they haven't really been tested yet, for now they are living off the efforts of those who came before them, the predecessors who mostly wore the earlier pain.

Lloyd and Liddle will have their big test this trade period.....they sacked SOS, employed an office boy and will need to handle
the recruiting period on their own.
The likes of Papley, Wines, Crouch, Williams or whatever big name player is available wont be just walking into Ikon park and signing up and will need to be massaged through the gate and in some cases traded for.
Everything else is in place IMO, no excuses its judgement time for them and we had better see some quality players coming our way.

[ElwoodBlues1]

I'd like to extend a big middle finger ? to the sycophants in the football media piling onto Marc Murphy for 'flopping'.  Sure,  he may have gone down fast but it was totally unnecessary contact. Get a grip tossers, we've been on the end of putrid umpiring for a long time... Where's the hue and cry about the studs up mark?  Reet reet... Crickets. 

Yep....that was a fairly decent push and Murphy did the right thing and milked it(Clarko would be proud)...you would be hard pressed to find a bigger knob in the comp than Pittard either. Crunch time of the match and that idiot wanted to play tough guy...Robert Walls would have the boxing gloves on Strempel style this week at training with that peroxided nuffy...