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Magnificent team win with some individual highlights too. Pittonet was huge. I genuinely thought both Williams' would work him over around the big ground but he stuck to his guns, broke even in the hitouts but was huge around the ground as well.
Weitering's effort on completely shutting Oscar Allen out of the game was big too. Allen was coming off 5 match winning goals last week against North and was hardly sighted.
Hewett's non-selection for a few weeks was hard to fathom and he showed why he's such an important player. He looks to have a low centre of gravity and hardly ever goes to ground and breaks tackles or gets his arms up and gets rid of the ball when he is tackled.
And Cripps....might be the 3 votes that clinches him another Brownlow. He is a beast and any thoughts that some had about trading him out should be put to bed now. He is Carlton through and through and is there to lead the club to a flag.
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(08-19-2024, 03:09 AM)WASurfer date Wrote:Hewett's non-selection for a few weeks was hard to fathom and he showed why he's such an important player. He looks to have a low centre of gravity and hardly ever goes to ground and breaks tackles or gets his arms up and gets rid of the ball when he is tackled. We are never going to know for certain, but when you see Hewett and Kennedy go at it the last couple of weeks you have to ask the question.
Is that freshen up working?
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"
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(08-19-2024, 03:00 AM)DJC link Wrote:Yes, even though he may not be winning the footy, Jesse is never a passenger and his work often sets up teammates.
Not sure about that....I was at the game and he was pretty ineffectual for most of the day. No possessions for the first half? His goal was opportunist, which he should be taking advantage of. He could have kicked it with his eyes shut. He just doesn't do it often enough. Take away the goal and he would be the lowest AF ranked Carlton player for the day.
He has the skill but was passenger like for most of the day. His 'work' is not that influential but, granted, it is a positive. At this stage of his development he should be contributing much more in terms of directly impacting the game.
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Cripps is a great player, if he ever leaves we will plummet like a rock down the ladder, he carries this team on his back more than any other Carlton player I have ever seen including Judd and other greats of the club.
Going to be a sad day when he retires or god forbid leaves the club, happy we beat WC so easily and its probably put him off considering leaving to go home.
Cant get any better than screwing over Collingwoods finals chances, seeing Essendon crash out and Cripps dominate a WC team, thats a successful weekends work..
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I'm certainly happy for the win, and happy for the 4 points, but one has to wonder whether WC were trying and were outplayed, or whether they put the cue in the rack. It was a lacklustre effort IMO. Shame about those injuries. It's the very last thing we need.
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(08-19-2024, 12:16 AM)dodge link Wrote:"Not terrified, resigned to what's about happen. WC comfortably."
I think I made a typo in the pre-game thread...
They were relentless yesterday, which was great to see and one of the missing ingredients lately.
It will certainly give Lord, Binns and Moir confidence that they belong.
While St Kilda will be a bit tougher, I hope all the players that are 1-2 weeks on the injury list are given proper time to recover. Those one or two weeks are near all hammys. They are 3 minimum. No way they play.
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The MC got it right - they are often criticized - with due cause - but they were on the ball this week - maybe the fact that there were so few players available for selection reduced the number of dopey decisions they could make.
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(08-19-2024, 02:00 AM)Shakin77 link Wrote:I thought he looked like a Scottish Terrier chasing a tennis ball at the beach early. Just running everywhere without getting to the right spots. To his credit he seemed to pick up the pace of the game in the 2nd half and did some nice things which was great to see.
Youthful exhuberance
vs
Experience.
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(08-18-2024, 08:46 PM)Lods link Wrote:The only thing wrong with the move of Kemp to the forward line was that it took so long to try it.
The surprising thing was that some folks found it 'surprising'.
Everything about his draft profile suggested that he was a player who could play forward or back...maybe even some time as a midfielder.
His versatility was a strength.
He kicked 4, probably should have kicked 5.
Yes, it was only an abysmal, dreadful West Coast side, but he was our key target.
How would he go as our third medium, tall player with the ability to move into defence if needed.
He's a strong mark and he's durable.
Hopefully he showed enough to not be pigeon-holed in future.
We have 'tried it' before.
But its like when we were trying Josh Kennedy in the forwardline that had Brendan Fevola.
He was never the focal point.
The difference yesterday was there wasn't 2 coleman medalists demanding all the inside 50's and surprise surprise he can actually play.
As happy as everyone was for Kemp, if anyone is not, it might be Jack Silvagni. He may have just been made redundant overnight.
If Kemp can play 3rd tall, it allows us to ruck Harry without hurting our forward structure as a backup. Obviously handy to have if we get an injury in defense as well.
I made a list of 'needs' the other day, and we may have just filled one of them.
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