VFL 2021 Rd ?: Carlton vs Port Melbourne

[laj]

I will take an ugly win as opposed to an ugly loos. We see enough of those in the AFL.

Confirmed that Mirkov has a knee injury so fingers crossed for him that it is not an ACL, although the way he went down and did not get up and was in a lot of pain does not bode well for him with our luck with injuries at the club.

I shouldn't complain. It's not as if we see the "W" much.

Be just our luck with Mirkov.

[jeza]

Carroll is our best (albeit a way off AFL), which is an indictment on SPS, Murphy & LOB

Kemp’s miles off AFL, which is probably understandable

Is number 40 the new bulldogs guy?

Honey needs to do more

Overall very disappointing so far

We definitely must have been watching different games... different leagues?

Carroll was just about BOG

[JonDorotich]

Fitness?

Good VFL player, but failed at AFL level twice
Recruiters may have formed the view that he can’t make the next step

[laj]

Agreed. Carroll and Honey look handy, but that’s about where it ends

No matter what the VFL coach or the CFC PR machine says after the game, all of Boyd, Murphy, Cottrell, Williamson, SPS, LOB, Kemp were average at best and it’s not great when 7 listed Carlton players struggle to cut the mustard in the seconds.

Kemp is understandable, most of the other were happy to run around at half pace. You'd think there'd be some keenness to get back in the side. Levi was very good with 21 touches (that ever happened before anywhere?) as were Carroll and Honey.

[JonDorotich]

We definitely must have been watching different games... different leagues?

Carroll was just about BOG

That post was at half time

Agree with you on Carroll (that’s why I said he was our best), but he really shouldn’t be with SPS, Murphy, LOb running around

[ElwoodBlues1]

Good VFL player, but failed at AFL level twice
Recruiters may have formed the view that he can’t make the next step

Thats probably right but in terms of know how and impact he was miles ahead of anyone on the ground today apart from Levi who did well in the ruck and around the ground as Jim suggested.
Carroll was good but I felt when Crocker touched the ball we looked like scoring and apart from his goals he also created a few for others as well. Not sure what the fascination with Boyd was in the mid deason draft?

[LoveNavy]

They seemed to run it out of their defense way too easily. Especially in the first half. That was g r a d ually... rectified allowing our boys to regain control. Last quarter played as the other 3 should have been played. Our AFL players stood up q4. Although once again didn't dominate/control/assert across 4q's!

Hope Mircov injury is not serious and that our staff can manage his full recovery ?

Kemp had flashes. I liked his pressure and that of Durdin. Honey looked dangerous around goal. Carroll's clearance work was pleasing given his limited games. Williamson improved as the game went on, but gee, what's happened to his development?

[laj]

Thats probably right but in terms of know how and impact he was miles ahead of anyone on the ground today apart from Levi who did well in the ruck and around the ground as Jim suggested.
Carroll was good but I felt when Crocker touched the ball we looked like scoring and apart from his goals he also created a few for others as well. Not sure what the fascination with Boyd was in the mid season draft?

Hopefully Boyd being suddenly thrusted in with new teammates just threw him off.

[Blue Moon]

Just watched the last quarter and a half of today's match. You can be glass half full or glass half empty. I thought SPS, Casboult, Honey, Cottrell, Kemp and Carroll were good, Williamson, Murphy, Durdin and Boyd were ok, didn't see much of Ramsay, Mirkov went down injured and O'Brien just didn't get enough of the ball. Watching Murphy today I think his problem is that he has never been a marking player and now that he has lost a bit of zip he can't get to the spaces he wants to get to. O'Brien is good with ball in hand but he just doesn't get it enough. If you are choosing a wingman then you are choosing Cottrell ahead of O'Brien. Kemp Carroll and Honey are all players I would like to see in the firsts sometime this year and Kemp would definitely give our defence a bit more size. Casboult is clearly too good for this level of football.
I thought we should have gone harder for a bigger win but they haven't played for three weeks and they did lose Mirkov in the first quarter. I was happy with our young guys, except for O'Brien, and I thought Levi and Murphy showed good leadership. All in all it was a good result.

[capcom]

Murphy might do a bit of medical subbing to get to 300.

He's hardly doing anything to warrant it.