Pre game profession of faith: AFL 2021 Rd 15: Carlton vs Adelaide

[WASurfer]

Only going on what I've read to date but would like to see Honey get a run this week....maybe with Eddie having a rest? Hard to see Honey playing along with Owies and Betts all in the same side.

Parks possibly goes out injured this week? Has Williamson done enough to earn a recall?

[rocky]

Don't think Eddie will be rested against Adelaide. Probably Fogarty if we want to try someone like Honey or even Carroll? Parks out injured so they will either bring in SPS or Murphy and shuffle the deck chairs down back. Who knows. Frankly finding it hard to care.

[Gointocarlton]

Don't think Eddie will be rested against Adelaide. Probably Fogarty if we want to try someone like Honey or even Carroll? Parks out injured so they will either bring in SPS or Murphy and shuffle the deck chairs down back. Who knows. Frankly finding it hard to care.

Agree Rock, given how we're travelling, it doesnt really matter. Problems aren't at the selection table.

[kruddler]

Agree Rock, given how we're travelling, it doesnt really matter. Problems aren't at the selection table.

We definitely DO have problems at the selection table, but thats not our ONLY problem.

[Gointocarlton]

We definitely DO have problems at the selection table, but thats not our ONLY problem.

So wind back to last Thurs, in your mind, what mistakes were made at the selection table?

[kruddler]

So wind back to last Thurs, in your mind, what mistakes were made at the selection table?

With an inkling of hindsight (which would've been available to the selection committee)....

Playing Martin. He clearly wasn't fit.
I made a comment in the in-game thread that he could barely walk at one stage (1st or 2nd qtr) and i thought he should be subbed out. For a bloke who is super fast, agile and smooth.....he looked like a miniture version of Levi. Not good enough. He shouldn't have been picked before the bye, and i figured he was fit enough when the picked him, he was not.

I wouldn't have picked Parks.....done nothing.

I would've played Murphy (for Martin).....as least Murphy can run.


All that being said.....i wasn't simply talking about that one game. We've played underdone players all year. Levi should've been dropped about 3 weeks before he was. Williams probably shouldn't have played a few games he did.
I think plenty of people have pointed this out in Thursdays teams over the year.
Ask me again on Thursday and i'll point out what i think is wrong with it.

[capcom]

Parks is likely a reserve player, nothing more.

[Gointocarlton]

With an inkling of hindsight (which would've been available to the selection committee)....

Playing Martin. He clearly wasn't fit.
I made a comment in the in-game thread that he could barely walk at one stage (1st or 2nd qtr) and i thought he should be subbed out. For a bloke who is super fast, agile and smooth.....he looked like a miniture version of Levi. Not good enough. He shouldn't have been picked before the bye, and i figured he was fit enough when the picked him, he was not.

I wouldn't have picked Parks.....done nothing.

I would've played Murphy (for Martin).....as least Murphy can run.


All that being said.....i wasn't simply talking about that one game. We've played underdone players all year. Levi should've been dropped about 3 weeks before he was. Williams probably shouldn't have played a few games he did.
I think plenty of people have pointed this out in Thursdays teams over the year.
Ask me again on Thursday and i'll point out what i think is wrong with it.

So Murphy for Martin and ?? for Parks, whatvever. Would it have made a difference?

[Thryleon]

So Murphy for Martin and ?? for Parks, whatvever. Would it have made a difference?

Parks was a dead set passenger.

Martin actually had a tough match up i thought and went with Whitfield a bit.  Still its hard to argue him over Murphy. 

[kruddler]

So Murphy for Martin and ?? for Parks, whatvever. Would it have made a difference?

Again, i'm not just talking about 1 game. I'm talking all year.

Lets look at it this way. A few close losses against the top teams is 'acceptable'. Confidence levels don't take too much of a hit.
However, turn one of those close losses into a win, and suddenly confidence levels rise. Imagine if the 16 point loss to the dogs was a win. That kind of confidence boost can lead to potentially more wins.....etc

....and its not just personnel, but where they are played too. Murphy proved he is more effective in the middle than up forward.
I'm all for giving the kids a run through the middle, but when its crunch time. Put your best players in the middle.

If you are happy with the teams that are announced each week, i think you are in the minority.