AFL Rd 20 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Port Adelaide

[Lods]

Vossys match day moves seem non existent.

Left Charlie on an island most of the night.

Commentators said we need someone capable of a mark up forward and then they cut to the bench with Kemp sitting there twiddling his thumbs.

...and when Charlie played away from goal...we had no-one!

[Lods]

We can have half our small forwards out and not notice.
We lose 2 talls and we implode.

Problem is our talls are A graders, our smalls probably C's at best.

[BluePhantom]

Why do we always get burnt by the umpires?
HTB????

[Gointocarlton]

- Too much back slapping and bath water drinking at half time for my liking.
- Defence is a shambles, has been for weeks, wish our fwds could have that dished up to them by oppo.
- Enough with Cunningham already., clean your locker out son.
- I think we are pretenders.

[PaulP]

I'm not sure if it was fatigue or something else, but Port squeezed us in the 2nd half, and we had no answers. Even the first half when we were ahead was not specially convincing.

Too much quality unavailable, and too much left to too few.

[shawny]

We are front runners. We are as good as any team when we have a full list and the game is being played on our terms. Take away one of the above and we drop to a mid table team.
Conclusion is this list is still not capable of going all the way. Had built a nice position on the ladder and had 4 winnable games and lost 3 of them. Too fickle too reliant on a few stars. Wont be this year unfortunately.

[Lods]

Injuries 'are' an excuse...they're the best bloody excuse there is.

Make it in a decent ladder position.
With a reasonably fit side...
and I wouldn't expect that Port would cause us too many problems

But both of those are big 'ifs' just at the moment.

[kruddler]

Problem is our talls are A graders, our smalls probably C's at best.

First choice maybe.
Replacement talls are d grade (don't give e grades anymore otherwise they would be here).

Look I was, I wouldn't say optimistic, but excited to see how we'd go with mix n matching the players we had available.

However....It was a terrible fail.

Both in terms of output and 'data collected'
We should've tried to move players around a bit more to find a mix that worked. We didn't.

I think pitto was good in the ruck.
I thought Charlie was good up forward.
I thought weiters was good down back.
I thought gov was passable.
I thought Kemp and young were largely disappointing.
Too many fumbles. Too slow to make decisions. Not enough 'swinging around' from vossy.

[madbluboy]

At the ground I thought Pittonrt was useless. Charlie was well beaten.weitering beat Dixon but not much else.

[madbluboy]

We will be lucky to make the finals.