AFL Rd 10 2022 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney

[Thryleon]

I hope we get to wear our clash jumper against the Swans...said nobody ever

We'll be wearing our indigenous jersey on Friday.  im pretty confident i heard them say that on the broadcast.

[tonyo]

I hope we get to wear our clash jumper against the Swans...said nobody ever

Interestingly enough, I have heard more than one player from other clubs say it is much easier to spot team-mates when they are wearing mainly white uniforms.

Have a look at down-the-ground footage - when our team is in white, all 18 are clear and obvious, whereas the Navy Blue tends to blend in with the crowd.  Not suggesting we become the Navy Whites, but it may not be all negative.

[LP]

Personally, I don't think we have a snowflake's.  Not with the injuries.

Possibly, but we seem to be generating plenty of opportunities.

A lot of the media and fans are obsessed with McKay and Curnow, but are they the driver or the beneficiaries of our scoring opportunities?

I think our players are starting to see the benefit of sacrifice and it's a bit of a lightbulb moment. In the past we seemed to be a team waiting for someone else to drag us across the line, now we appear to be creating the solution.

[tonyo]

Possibly, but we seem to be generating plenty of opportunities.

A lot of the media and fans are obsessed with McKay and Curnow, but are they the driver or the beneficiaries of our scoring opportunities?

I think our players are starting to see the benefit of sacrifice and it's a bit of a lightbulb moment. In the past we seemed to be a team waiting for someone else to drag us across the line, now we appear to be creating the solution.

I really like the Voss mantra of 'next man in' - we have 22 on the park every week, each with a job to do.  No use crying over players that are not available, make it work another way.  And play your part, don't wait for others to do it for you. 

I think this is where our newly-found depth has come from.  We had it all along, but now the spare parts players have been empowered to do their job, and are by and large doing it as best as they can.  Up until now, most of our bottom 6 on the park have been confused spectators.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Swans are a good contested team and  are better up forward now with Buddy and Papley both back.
Going to be fierce in the midfield, be interesting to see Hewett vs Parker and crew. Parker copping a bit from the press for letting Shiel know what he thinks of his
attack on the ball.

[cookie2]

Swans are a good contested team and  are better up forward now with Buddy and Papley both back.
Going to be fierce in the midfield, be interesting to see Hewett vs Parker and crew. Parker copping a bit from the press for letting Shiel know what he thinks of his
attack on the ball.

Agree, the Swans will be a much harder nut to crack. Much tougher than GWS imho.

[Blue Moon]

Sydney's only injury at present is Naismith while we have our usual ten to twelve unavailable. Delaney is important to them and it is interesting when he doesn't play how much they struggle. However he is not the sort of ruckman that De Konning has problems dealing with. The key to Sydney is Franklin, Papley and Heeney and Heeney has really killed us over the past few years though we have had problems with Toby Green in the past and we were able to manage him fairly well last week. Sydney is a very disciplined structured term which comes from having a stable game play for the past 15 to 20 years. My big tick for Voss so far is that he hasn't changed the game plan all that much, the greater use of the forward handpass is one innovation, but the real performance improvement has come from the playing personnel we have had available and the selection of a team rather than players. Dow isn't being selected because  because the position he would play is not available, not because he isn't in good form. We are also playing quicker players in the forward line like Durdin and Owies rather than Murphy and Betts so therefore we are able to slow the ball movement down that is coming out of our forward line which helps midfield to defend and makes our backline more effective. I see no reason why we cannot win this week, particularly if we win the midfield battle. Paddy McCartin has been a good get for them as he has given their defence better structure but if our forwards can apply pressure we could disrupt their system and actually exploit their structure. So I think victory by up to five goals.

[LP]

Heeney has really killed us over the past few years though we have had problems with Toby Green in the past and we were able to manage him fairly well last week. 

While I'd love to give our club, coaches and players all the credit, I suspect Greene is carrying an injury, he didn't look 100% last weekend.

[WASurfer]

Heeney is an out and out star and hard to see who we match up on him as he's so strong in the air....I wonder if they've given even the remotest thought to pulling the trigger on Marchbank for this week?

[LP]

...I wonder if they've given even the remotest thought to pulling the trigger on Marchbank for this week?

The way Marchbank cruised through 3/4s of the VFL game against Frankston I had the very same thought.

Nobody doubts Marchbank's ability, he was a cut above everybody else in the VFL, but he has to get on the park and stay there to win over fans!