Post Game Analysis: AFL 2021 Rd 11: Carlton vs Sydney

[LP]

Let's not go overboard Pittonet was OK but he had very little influence, but then none of the rucks did!

It's bit hard to tell when you have such crap umpiring, multiple bad decisions directly generated at least 3 or 4 Swan's goals.

[madbluboy]

Thought we got the rub of the green.

[PaulP]

Coaches' votes :

Sydney v Carlton
10 Isaac Heeney (SYD)
6 Patrick Cripps (CARL)
4 Jake Lloyd (SYD)
4 Harry McKay (CARL)
3 Harry Cunningham (SYD)
2 Josh Kennedy (SYD)
1 Tom Papley (SYD)

Sam Walsh currently sits 8th overall.

[LP]

Thought we got the rub of the green.

You can't confuse the overall count with the consequences of individual decisions or non-decisions.

I'm assuming all that early good luck, and the associated booing ferals, is the reason why we missed out on getting several frees inside our F50 later in the game.

[Lods]

Well (to state the obvious) I guess it boils down to this...
No firm decisions need to be made just yet (although I suspect some already have) but...
The second half of this season is going to determine the careers of a number of players and coaches.
It's in their hands.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Coaches' votes :

Sydney v Carlton
10 Isaac Heeney (SYD)
6 Patrick Cripps (CARL)
4 Jake Lloyd (SYD)
4 Harry McKay (CARL)
3 Harry Cunningham (SYD)
2 Josh Kennedy (SYD)
1 Tom Papley (SYD)

Sam Walsh currently sits 8th overall.

Couple of lazy Carlton smalls who couldnt be bothered chasing or manning up the two Swans vote winning rebounders
in Cunningham and Lloyd. The stats back up those votes.....

[kruddler]

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/s...udbYBQrNgs

[madbluboy]

You can't confuse the overall count with the consequences of individual decisions or non-decisions.

I'm assuming all that early good luck, and the associated booing ferals, is the reason why we missed out on getting several frees inside our F50 later in the game.

No confusion on my part. I don't think the umpires had any influence on the result.

[Thryleon]

There were a few tackles executed by the Swans with tackles that were at the top of the neck in a very "pressure point" type hold which I found interesting.

[Macca37]

Mckay kicked 3.5.
In the third quarter, Fogarty kicked at goal truly only for a mark to be taken on the line.  If that one, and Harry's poster both go in we might have gone on to win the match.

Thats the margin right there guys.  Harry kicks 5.3 instead of 3.5 and we are that much closer too.

When it comes down to it, we werent that bad.

For all the Gibbons haters, he is an onfield coach for us, and plugs a lot of holes that earns him very little on the stats sheet.

He went off, and we crumbled in a way that surprised me.

It just goes to show, that we are still working out a complementary group of players.  I think we have enough of each type, and that our improvement doesnt come from changing players over for another, but getting the group to work together for longer.

This puts us back in the "if only" frame of mind and immediately sets the bar too low.

Instead, if players  did or were able to do what they are supposed to do we would all be in a more positive frame of mind because we would be winning matches.