AFL Rd 18 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs

[kruddler]

O Hollands and Marchbank shouldn't escape scrutiny.

Nobody to take their spot/role unfortunately.

[LoveNavy]

We've lost the intensity, which now appears in glimpses. Perhaps it's just our time for a lull and we'll pick up at the right time of the year. It's a long season.

Feel for Crippa. He and a handful of others can hold their head high.
Unfortunately, too few wins around ball and deplorable pressure i50. Too many to's and fumbles. Allowed oppo to run in waves and we couldn't stop them. Left our defence to pick up the slack, which it didn't. Too much left to too few.

I don't want to bag our players but quite a few had shockers. Making lots of changes is unlikely to be the answer - as we're seeing atm. Perhaps our early long injury list is playing a role. It inadvertently puts pressure on the fit players.

Time for Ed Curnow to stoke up the fire. We've lost the fire we had earlier. We've become the hunted again.

[LP]

O Hollands and Marchbank shouldn't escape scrutiny.

I thought Ollie was OK, Marchbank looked off the pace, we missed McGovern.

Our record when McGovern or Saad are out it's horrendous, winning only 25% in their absence.

[kruddler]

So Fantasia was not the problem? :  ;D

If you take the spare wheel out of your car? Do you notice it missing? Does it enhance your performance having it there?

Fantasia was a passenger who wasn't providing enough. Owies as the sub last week vs his first half this week shows the wrong call was made.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Embarrassing loss given the Dogs had key defenders out and got away with Lobb and Khumis, no Naughton and then lost key mid Treloar before the game.
TDK and Pittonet makes us slow and inflexible, plus the selection blunders continue with Hewett and Kennedy.
The idea we can take on the Dogs good midfield without those two in the 22 reeks of over confidence and arrogance imo.
Marchbank makes too many errors and wouldn't be in my best 30.
Disappointing loss and now risk losing second spot if we don't get it together and pick our best team each week and lose the cocky attitude.

[townsendcalling]

Bigheads strike again !!

Pittonet - utter dud, get rid of him
Marchbank - never liked him and a huge liability, boot him out
Boyd - disposal was appalling and got found out tonite for being way too loose 
Williams - before getting injured, shirked it
Curnow - massively over-rated & unreliable
Cottrell - exposed at senior level

We have too many lemons and not enough 'tough as nails' types who dig in hard when it gets tough.

Dogs wanted that win from the first bounce & played like their season depended on it, once again our guys just went though the motions in the belief it was going to magically happen.

And as for some of the undisciplined free kicks we gave away .............. spare me !!

Herés a novel thought, how about some of our defenders try to punch & spoil ?? Two or three times our idiots tried to outmark them instead of opting for the smarter play, we are just too dumb at times.

When things are going our way we look great but when the opposition apply a lot of pressure we wilt. It happened last week and it happened again tonight, the opposition clubs have now worked us out.

Why does he always come with both barrells when we get beaten but never praises us after a good win???

[LoveNavy]

Delivery i50 is also off. Missed ZW and Walshy seems to be getting caught more often. I'm hopeful that we can arrest this low patch and get back to what we're capable of. It's been frustrating watching the oppo find ways to nullify us. Meanwhile, we appear to have no answers.

[Baggers]

I thought Ollie was OK, Marchbank looked off the pace, we missed McGovern.

Our record when McGovern or Saad are out it's horrendous, winning only 25% in their absence.

Ollie is too one dimensional at present. Seldom hurts the opposition with his disposals and fumbles/panics in close.

Our backline wasn't helped by poor midfield pressure and ordinary skills. Likewise forward line.

Two rucks just seem to confuse the issue.

[LP]

Interesting, two very similar losses with quite different selection, it's interesting we are having a very similar slump to the Handbaggers a few weeks back.

Injuries, selection and mindset is costing us games, we just can't get it quite right at the moment, primarily our midfield isn't able to be competitive for four quarters at the moment.

[laj]

Actually, the Pies, lost round 20, 21 and 23 last year and went on to win the flag. Won Round 22 by just 8pts.

We could be going through a heavy training patch. Time will tell. Sometimes you just don't know what goes on from the outside.