Post Game Permutation: AFL Rd 12: Carlton vs Fremantle

[LoveNavy]

I agree, apart from when Fyfe stole the ball of him, I thought he ran hard and attacked the contest. Took some positive steps fwd.

Willo had a couple of unmemorable games coming off his ankle injury. He's been building again since then imo. Slowly but surely. 

I think we also need to remember the toll on our young side from hubbing and travelling. WA, SA, and QLD sides have physical and mental advantage of being at home. Not an excuse but a fact that is likely to impact performance across time.

Whoever played on Walters needs a shout out ?

For some reason we couldn't mark the ball. Freo were superior in that regard. Have a look what grippo they used ?

[capcom]

Imagine Martin and Pittonet and Silvagni being available and in that side.  The kids did well

[flyboy77]

Big strong dual Brownlow Medalist vs a kid, he'll learn from it.

Gee, Fyfe gets an armchair ride from the umps....

[flyboy77]

Imagine Martin and Pittonet and Silvagni being available and in that side.  The kids did well

Martin makes us a 3-4 goal better side most weeks.

[Micky0]

Imagine Martin and Pittonet and Silvagni being available and in that side.  The kids did well

Agree.

Did remind myself this is not our full strength team.

[jeza]

I tend to agree.

I'm going to say something that will change the way people see Willo....and once read, you will not be able to unsee.

Willo is reminding me, a lot, of Paul Bower.

The haphazard run off HB, the awkward handballing the fumbling and selling blokes into trouble......

I hope i'm wrong, but i'm seeing a lot of similarities.

I think the brain snaps from Jones and Plowman can have a knock on impact to the younger guys. That sort of stuff is contagious. It got Weitering for a while there.

For Liverpool supporters you look at what Van Dyk was able to do when he joined the club. It wasn't just his own game but the confidence / calmness he was able to give his teammates. Lovren was like Jones. Pretty good athlete but so panicky and he made everyone else around him panicky also.

That's where I see our backline now. We'll struggle to play finals with panic merchants in the backline.

I actually think Williamson will be ok once he's surrounded by a calmer more settled unit.

[bratblue]

"I suspect MBB and Spanner must have been umpiring."
Heaven forbid LP, ripper thought though.

[ElwoodBlues1]

You’re right EB, the conditions were very poor for most of the game and I imagine that Teague’s instructions would have been to gain territory with every disposal.  Most of our players were hacking the ball forward during periods of heavy rain and there were turnovers as a result.  That’s OK if we can then set up defensively and we were able to do that quite well most of the time. 

While it wasn’t a great spectacle, I still found it to be an entertaining game between two fairly evenly matched teams, even if inexplicable umpiring decisions (and non-decisions) gave Fremantle a leg up.  The down the ground free to Newnes was one occasion when an umpire got it right 

Despite the commentators drooling over Freo’s midfield, it was Curnow, Cripps, Murphy and Walsh that got on top and set up the win.  Plowman’s work on Fyffe was critical too.

Darcy kept drooling over Luke Ryan to the point of being vomit material, ditto with Cerra......agree on our mids doing the hard yards better although Longmuir taking Fyfe out of the midfield and having him freeze down forward helped as well..

[Gointocarlton]

I tend to agree.

I'm going to say something that will change the way people see Willo....and once read, you will not be able to unsee.

Willo is reminding me, a lot, of Paul Bower.

The haphazard run off HB, the awkward handballing the fumbling and selling blokes into trouble......

I hope i'm wrong, but i'm seeing a lot of similarities.

Absolutely nothing like Paul Bower, I'll have no trouble unseeing it as I couldn't see it the first place.

[Gointocarlton]

Our disposal. It's either horrible or brilliant as it was against Geelong and the Dogs. Bevo said our disposal efficiency into the F50 was off the chart against the Dogs, on a very wet night. Last night was on the horrible side.

Sometimes I'd rather they just kick a chaos ball into the F50 than just pick out a defender.

It was insane how many times that occured.