Pre Game Preparations: AFL 2021 R3 Carlton vs Fremantle at Marvel

[Baggers]

Doc 1 tackle in 2 games...now thats seriously embarrassing from a co captain..wtf especially in a backline thats leaking easy goals...

Mr nice DT....do you get your guys to practice on their non-preferred sides for extended periods like Tom Mitchell did in the VFL with the Hawks before he became a 3 time premiership player and kicks more with his left foot than right in later years?

What did our skills coaches do in the 6 months offseason to address the issue of one sided players like Williamson?.. He has been caught stone dead 3 times Holding the ball trying to stop and prop back to his left foot.

Get some hard nuts in Bam Bam Kennedy needs to play...at least he has a body that can hurt/impact

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[Raydan]

It's not just about selection, it's about the position they play. Setterfield on the wing 19 meters gained???!!!???

While Walsh has done well on the ball, it looks as if he will need to be on the wing, so we have runners outside and Setterfield inside, but does that make us too big and slow.

What about Ed Curnow? Still good enough, plays his guts out, but by playing him on the wing do we do a Bolton and play Ed out of position? If we bring Stocker in, are we going to play him inside on the ball? Or is he a Williamson replacement? Again playing a natural midfielder out of position.

Can we play Ed of a HFF flank that pushes into the mid after the ball has been bounced and Cripps goes to HFF and plays the lead up to the wings for a rebound. He has the hands to take an over head mark then hopefully feed of to the runners.

This way we can play Cripps as a forward half inside mid against a HBF and Stocker (If playing BP) can be the same in the back half.

[WASurfer]

Bolton tried to turn Ed into a forward towards the end of his tenure.....Curnow's best position is and always will be as a run-with tagger...play him on Mundy this week. Mundy picked up a lazy 35 possessions yesterday....he's still a beautiful user of the footy and simply can't be allowed to get that many touches.

Stocker should get the gig on Lachie Schultz....very dangerous and tough small forward.

If Murphy is being played predominantly as a small forward, then drop him....with Gibbons, Fisher and Fogarty doing the same thing, we can't carry him. If Setterfield isn't playing as an insider then bring Kennedy in. Freo's young midfield with Cerra, Brayshaw, Serong etc will kill us around the ground.

[ElwoodBlues1]

It's not just about selection, it's about the position they play. Setterfield on the wing 19 meters gained???!!!???

While Walsh has done well on the ball, it looks as if he will need to be on the wing, so we have runners outside and Setterfield inside, but does that make us too big and slow.

What about Ed Curnow? Still good enough, plays his guts out, but by playing him on the wing do we do a Bolton and play Ed out of position? If we bring Stocker in, are we going to play him inside on the ball? Or is he a Williamson replacement? Again playing a natural midfielder out of position.

Can we play Ed of a HFF flank that pushes into the mid after the ball has been bounced and Cripps goes to HFF and plays the lead up to the wings for a rebound. He has the hands to take an over head mark then hopefully feed of to the runners.

This way we can play Cripps as a forward half inside mid against a HBF and Stocker (If playing BP) can be the same in the back half.

Lets talk about Setterfield and where soft players end up.........usually on a wing. Not sure what happened over summer but he has a bad case of the handbrake harry whites and been pulling up short in contests and avoiding contact.
I agree with most he needs to get back to the coalface but we cant send him there the way he has been playing, he is just too non contested at the minute and needs some time in the twos to get some confidence.
I think he is a decent player but one who is out of form and giving him somewhere easy to play isnt helping him or the team.
His role is to support Cripps and become a top big bodied mid with us, I see him as a Josh Dunkley type who might not be silky smooth but can play that support mid role to Cripps as well as lock onto an opposing tall mid who is giving us trouble much like Dunkley does for the Dogs.
Its really important he makes it as a top line player and I hope the coaching staff are working hard to get him back on track and attacking the ball properly.

[cookie2]

Don't like the idea of taking Walsh out from the coalface just to accomodate Setters tbh. Seems like a retrograde step to me.

[Gointocarlton]

Id swing the axe this week, some serious changes required and lets have a look at a few.

FB Stocker Jones Docherty
HB SPS Weitering Saad
C Williams Cripps Curnow
HF Gibbons Silvagni Martin
FF Forgarty McKay Fisher
R Pittonet Walsh Kennedy
Int Murphy Carrol Dow McDonald
Out Casboult Williamson Setterfield Plowman Newnes (all omitted)
In Carrrol Kennedy Stocker Silvagni McDonald
Emerg Betts(sub) Newnes

SPS - Last week is the bare minimum in terms of a pass, bring it again or ta ta
Murphy - Time is running out
Doc - See Murphy
Jones - Play the %'s

[shawny]

Think our task become harder now Fyfe is out.
While overall our opposition is weaker without Fyfe it also means they will be less predictable and their gameplan will be changed as result of Fyfe not being out there.
This is where we will struggle as our coaches are not exactly quick at adapting.
And if Walters plays even more uncertainty for our coaches to deal with.
Failed in the box when pies changed there gameplan reckon the same will occur this week. 

[kruddler]

Id swing the axe this week, some serious changes required and lets have a look at a few.

FB Stocker Jones Docherty
HB SPS Weitering Saad
C Williams Cripps Curnow
HF Gibbons Silvagni Martin
FF Forgarty McKay Fisher
R Pittonet Walsh Kennedy
Int Murphy Carrol Dow McDonald
Out Casboult Williamson Setterfield Plowman Newnes (all omitted)
In Carrrol Kennedy Stocker Silvagni McDonald
Emerg Betts(sub) Newnes

SPS - Last week is the bare minimum in terms of a pass, bring it again or ta ta
Murphy - Time is running out
Doc - See Murphy
Jones - Play the %'s

Agree with Casboult + Willo out for McDonald +  .....someone. Is Silvagni available? If so, its him. If not, its Kennedy.
Betts as the sub is something i called for mid-game last week.

I wouldn't go further than that at this stage as i think the replacements are worse.

Stocker i'd like to see more of.
Carroll ditto
Kennedy/Silvagni depending on Silvagnis fitness.

[Milhanna13]

If you watched that  PRIME "making their mark" stuff you would surely have realised that GWS are certainly not in a good space. Cameron won't last past this year (if not sooner) so it's hard to gauge how good FREO are.
We should win but I thought we'd knock off the filth so what do I know,

Yup, the gws stuff on there was a real eye opener. Lead by that inspirational leader Cogs!!!  Johnno Brown he ain’t

[JonDorotich]

Time to make some moves.

Murphy, Newnes and Setterfield out, Cunningham, Stocker and Silvagni in.

Fogarty to defence b/c he can tackle and use the ball.
Stocker into the guts replacing Setterfield
Cunningham to provide the run and X factor that Murphy can’t provide
SPS to rotate through the middle

Fogarty Jones Plowman
Docherty Weitering Saad
Williams Cripps Martin
Fisher  McKay Cunningham
Gibbons Casboult  Silvagni

Pittonet Stocker Walsh

Curnow SPS Williamson Dow

I’d also drop Casboult but I just don’t have any trust in McDonald, so he gets a reprieve.