AFL Rd 16 2022 Post Game Postulations Carlton vs St Kilda

[laj]

We are pretenders

Didn't expect us to be contenders yet but I expect that we give ourselves the best chance possible, not piss what chances we have down the bloody drain.

[Thryleon]

Worst game of the year.  Was still winnable.  Adam cerra rushed back in too soon.  Was rubbish.  Dow must be wondering what he's done wrong when cerra serves up that garbage.

The problem with today's game is that its all happened before.  Membrey with 4, our talls missing regulation set shots all night and getting cut up on the outside all night. 

[pinot]

Conceded 14 goals majority from turn overs. Positives are - experiments need to end this week.

[Lods]

I think we may have got more credit  for the Freo win than was warranted....and I suspect we'll get more criticism than is warranted for this performance.
At the end of the round we'll probably sit on the ladder exactly where we should be.

[LoveNavy]

An apt description when 5th plays 10th and loses.

I've been saying our injuries and related adaptations will take a toll. Even as players return, they take a game or two to find their touch. Hence 4/8 not guaranteed, and a slide quite likely. We've hit that mark IMO, and 4/7 is becoming less likely. Hope I'm wrong but if we do play finals we will scrape in. Our poor % may become the deciding factor.

Tonight we looked that half second off it most of the game. That's all it takes. Cerra, Honey, Kemp to lesser extent, not in touch. Poor buggers TDK and SOS were monstered. Our mids in general were slightly off giving them enough opportunities and they took them.

Our goalkicking was deplorable. Every goal took so much effort, as did most of the  points. There's the game right there, against a side of 18 hard workers.

[LoveNavy]

I think we may have got more credit  for the Freo win than was warranted....and I suspect we'll get more criticism than is warranted for this performance.
At the end of the round we'll probably sit on the ladder exactly where we should be.

Lods the logician ?

[ElwoodBlues1]

Footy is often about timing, we are light on for talls due to injury and we run into Stkilda with  4 good ins and especially their trump card ruck duo in Ryder and Marshall playing together and while TDK was brave and got his share of hitouts it didnt work with Jack tonight imo and we were hurt in the ruck and around the ground especially. Some good coaching from Ratten with Hill running loose early off half back and we helped them out by kicking poorly for goal when we had momentum our way. They had injuries in the last quarter which should have helped us bu it probably inspired them and it was one of those games where we couldnt do much right.
Cripps and Walsh won plenty of ball but didnt really impact the game and I even thought the reliable Hewett was off his game as well. Sinclair was probably BOG and appeared to be playing off half back so I'm not sure who his man was(Honey?) but he didnt spend much time with the Stkilda player who racked them up and started a lot of their attacks.
Membrey likes playing us but I didnt blame Plowman as some of his goals were not the result of poor play by Plowman and I felt for Kemp who was monstered down back but battled on.
LOB had a shocker and Cerra was very average but back after injury he can be forgiven for being under par...
Saints are rubbish imo which makes a loss hard to take but like I said its all about timing in footy and we probably copped the Saints with one of their better teams picked and we probably had one of our worst teams in terms of matchups.
I'd be expecting to rebound hard and flog WC next game hopefully with Weitering back....

[cookie2]

Charlie was also very average tonight EB.

[pinot]

Missing goals is a nothing burger if quality is not consistent around the ground to defend goals.
We are doing well considering but need quality back asap. Some ground ball players are not AFL level.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Charlie was also very average tonight EB.

That he was Cookie, Harry was equally as laconic and uninspiring, Charlies kicking for goal was poor but his opponent Wilkie is very underrated and Charlie needed to work harder like a lot of our other players.
The Owies, Fisher, Durdin trifecta has been missing and while Motlop kicked three goals he doesnt give you that i5o pressure, chasing, tackling etc that creates extra goals and I think Owies has been a underrated player whose 1% ers have been badly missed.