tap in 79 wrote:
When you're in the 6th-12th range on the ladder it largely comes down to team selection. If you make mistakes here it can cost you the match. The match committee appear to make mistakes in my opinion.
When Carlton beat Geelong Rd 2 - I bet you didn't realise there were six team changes to the Brisbane match!! that's is about 1/3rd of the team.
Out: (they played vs Geelong)
Lachie Cowan - not a massive out.
De Koening - 11 possessions/22 hit outs.
Fisher - 19 possessions/1 goal
Kennedy - 26 possessions (yet only a sub vs Brisbane)
O'Brien - 3 possessions (only a sub)
Owies - 3 goals
In:
Cincotta - a good addition.... you need new blood to get the team going. Offers some steel.
Kemp - ok addition...not essential.
Honey - should not be in the team.
Kennedy (wrongly chosen as just a sub)
Walsh - an obvious improvement
Hewett - an obvious improvement
So when looking at who missed from the Geelong game - Owies is the biggest miss, followed by DeKoening (When in form). The selection of Honey vs Brisbane was a selection error. Kennedy should have started in the game/Kemp on the bench. But in general, the team was technically on paper better in the Brisbane game, but still lost, so something is up with the structure.
My guess is they have a set outline for the forward line, which means they don't pick on form, but on structure. The match committee believe they must have three small forwards no matter what their form is. Well I think it is time to maybe blow up that quota. The structure of the forward line should be worked on.
For example, why is Silvagni playing big chunks of the match at full-forward? I don't get it. Clear out the forward line...move all the half forwards & forward pockets out to the 40-50 metre line and just leave Big Harry and Curnow at full-forward owning real estate 0-35 metres out when the match is restarted after a goal. You get a quick centre clearance where you bomb it into those two for one on one battles and they are kicking at least 6-10 goals between them.
When the team for the Bulldogs match is chosen it has to be as a minimum if they are fair dinkum on form:
Out: Honey
In: Owies
Tha's for starters....and then hopefully blood some new enthusiasm. I like Carroll, but obviously the match committee don't.
On one final point - largely in relation to the euphoria over the Tasmanian team. I believe I am not the only one whose viewing habits over the years have changed. I have become more jaded. Before I was "I love football... and will gladly watch Collingwood play Geelong or Geelong vs Hawthorn if it is a big game!" Now, the truth is : "I only watch Carlton and if they are shite, I won't watch any of it." For example, I didn't even know who won Essendon** vs Collingwood until about 3 days later. I will avoid the media, conversations etc.
This all goes to the point of the AFL's hope of piggy backing off the money they get from big club supporters funding their latest love child "The Tasmanian Mountain Goats" becomes more troublesome. If people are being turned off the game, then where is the money going to come from? That they will have to work out, as I am sure there are others who are getting just as jaded as me.
I logged in to respond to this fantastic post.
I hear you brother. The code has become tiresome, and losing is worse than boring. You got me thinking of your great post.
I’m really grumpy with the AFL Commission mainly because of their vandalism of the greatest game on earth with rule changes, interpretations, band aids. Then all this money for GC GWS and now Tassie when clubs around Australia are folding.
I grew up with VFL’s 12 teams, playing each other home & away, on Saturday’s and VFA on sundays which I loved going to because I played on Saturdays. I missed games to watch Carlton on Saturdays. There’s just too much other stuff, I think I’m going to join you.
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