AFL Rd 4 2022 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Gold Coast

[tonyo]

Ill make a rather bold prediction and say Durds will surpass Eddie.

Only 636 goals to go.  Not much pressure.

[pinot]

Seven hours of Blue Bliss tomorrow - starting 12.30 with VFL

[Blue Moon]

Fogarty and Dow unlucky not to be in the side. Both have been showing good form.

[pinot]

Pittonet withdrawn - Fogarty comes in the 22

Good luck TDK

[LP]

Kemp comes into the squad as an emergency, I bet Kemp ends up playing and Young rucks with TDK.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Kemp comes into the squad as an emergency, I bet Kemp ends up playing and Young rucks with TDK.

We got lucky King is injured, you take Young out of the backline to ruck and it means Weitering would get Levi but Chol will have a big size advantage over who ever he plays on.
Reckon Jack might do some rucking this game with Levi and Chol probably doing the relief for Witts....
Plowman might have to play on Lukosius and give away a few cm, I'm never a fan of size mismatches.

[bricky]

Agree, I'd rather they rucked Jack and left the backline alone

[Macca37]

Agree, I'd rather they rucked Jack and left the backline alone

The problem is  having to use de Koning as our main ruckman.  He just doesn't seem able to impose himself in that position and as soon as he starts to tire he gets pushed out of position by the opposing ruckman.

It looks as though Jack will have to be a shorter version of Pittonet for most of the game.  I agree that we can't go shorter in the backline.

[townsendcalling]

One thing it does do is add a bit more pace which I think we were lacking with the 22 we originally picked.

[Lods]

Hopefully we get the job done but I just get a feeling that our 'balance' has been knocked around a bit by the illness and injury of the last few weeks.
Really good sides can cover situations where players switch into roles that they don't normally play.
Tomorrow will be interesting.