AFL Rd 12 Post Game Passing Carlton vs Melbourne

[Professer E]

Turned it over a lot I thought which dulled the gloss on his game

[madbluboy]

Better get ready for next week. A loss to Essendon is unacceptable to our supporters.

[Gointocarlton]

I doubt we'll retain him now.

We would have been slaughtered tonight if not for Weiters, McGovern and Kemp, Kemp's best game for the club.

It looks like Cerra is our only fit midfielder, all the others look broken! Walsh had no pre-season it's catching up on him, Cripps looks injured, Kennedy is injured.

Yep, our team tonight felt like:

FB: Kemp Weiters Gov
C:            Cerra
R:            TDK
FF:          H

[LP]

We need players like them, we are twotoo predictable with the current Curnow/McKay combo because if they fail, so does the whole team.

I wouldn't say our twin talls have failed, the problem as I see it is that when they are having bog ordinary games, the type of game that forms more than 1/2 a normal season, we are getting stuff all from the other forwards and almost nothing from the Mids / On Ball crew.

[LoveNavy]

Very pleased for big H. At least someone shows they can "go to work on it" and actually improve.

Also thought Motlop and Owies worked hard. Especially further up the ground. Weiters is back. Kemp is in the best 22.

Otherwise we're destined for a top 4 pick. Just hope there's not too many decent F/S and state discounts in the draft.

Disappointed is a massive understatement.

[Lods]

Dow got a big cheer when he came on and again every time he got a good possession.
There was that one poor mis-kick that resulted in a goal but there were lots of poor kicks under pressure by others.
The last pass to McKay was a good one.

Now what the cheerring shows is that, for all his faults, many supporters don't think he's been given a fair deal in terms of game time.
While supporters shouldn't be determining match selections it can be another burden, in terms of pressure, on those making the decisions.
We may as well play players like Dow, even if we are planning on letting him go at the end of the year.
We'll either up his trade value
Decide he's worth keeping.
...or justify any reasons we might have for letting him go.
No-one will be able to say we didn't give him a chance.

I personally don't think we'll lose a lot by playing him.
He wasn't outstanding but he did contribute more than some.

[LP]

Now what the cheerring shows is that, for all his faults, many supporters don't think he's been given a fair deal in terms of game time.

Undoubtedly this is true, but the vast bulk of supporters never watch a VFL game, so those opinions have to be largely ignored!

[laj]

Better get ready for next week. A loss to Essendon is unacceptable to our supporters.

A loss to Essendon is where Bolton fell over.

[LoveNavy]

How many 4q i50's went directly to their defenders. That's not acceptable.
Wait, it's exactly what we did last week. Dumb and dumber..

[Micky0]

Undoubtedly this is true, but the vast bulk of supporters never watch a VFL game, so those opinions have to be largely ignored!

Absolutely. However he was our first pick, number 3? In that draft. And he’s been BOG mostly in VFL games yet the same guys get a run, this one does not get a look in ??‍♀️