I drove to Coburg & got the train from there

North pushed ahead in the first half because we allowed them too much easy territory with their possession.
We refused to apply sufficient pressure to the ball carrier and allowed them to chip the ball up the ground. Centre clearances were 7-7 at half time and hitouts to advantage were actually in our favour.

The obvious discrepancy was uncontested marks and marks. North had 52 uncontested marks to our 24 at half time. We were poor with our zoning and too many players were content to give them space.
We reduced their uncontested marks to 16 in the 3rd quarter by being more accountable to an opponent and forcing them to kick down the line more. Get the ball back into a contest and we minimised their inside 50's and started to give our forwards more opportunities. Hardball gets 10-4 in our favour after being even at half time.
Any team can play well if you let them have the game on their own terms. Pressure and contest as Vossy continually says are our strengths.
If we don't bring them, forget finals success.

Voss says it was because we played too fast. That makes sense. We were fueling the open game which they wanted. When we got it slowed to our desired pace there was less outnumbering in their favour and our defensive shape was able to hold better. That made it easier to apply the pressure we needed to apply .Then it became a tough arm wrestle where we could use our strengths to overpower them and take the 4pts.

I went to the game, take the 4 points and move on.
We clearly are not playing as we were about a month or so ago.
After hearing news about TDK what a courageous effort it was from him.
Carroll played well.
Thank goodness we won. Having to catch the tram home because of bus replacements on my line would have made the trip much worse. Crammed into a packed tram and taking forever would have sucked if we had lost.
Is there an unwritten rule that every time Walsh is tackled he is paid holding the ball against him?

Yes. All damn season. What have they got against him?

To me it seems there is one rule for some teams and then another for others. Some of the free kicks not paid to Cripps/Walsh and Charlie in particular are just ridiculous. It really has become that frustratingly obvious.

Pros
Happy with 4 points
We found out we are dysfunctional when TDK was off
Have doubts we would’ve won without TDK. Starred.
Motlop arrived. Loved his intensity
Loved the pace of Saad Cincotta Cottrell
Harry is the best CHF in the game
Charlie keeps kicking goals
Weitering held backline together
Carrolls best game for Carlton. Confident.
Pressure in the 3rd. Team effort.
Hewett is one of our best 3 mids

Cripps was BOG

Cons
Lack of pressure for long periods
Durdin ahead of Young. Too slow for AFL.
Charlie’s lack of effort to compete for every ball
TDK going off injured showed how importants a ruck role is
Losing a ruck Rob’s us of a CHF or our most important mid
Short backline exposed. Kemp or Marchy wouldn’t fill that gap
Handballing to players in worse positions
Cripps trying to do too much


If you can’t see the problem with one ruck when sole ruck is injured for the game you never will, so don’t think for a minute I don’t admire TDK cos I do, but I can’t depend on an opposition coach to not aim to hurt TDK to win the game in Finals.

Ridiculous to think I’d gloat about a loss Great Ex, like I said in match thread I pointed out for you that all 5 commentators all agreed we are vulnerable if TDK is out injured when sole ruck, so you don’t have to hear the logic from me. That was unecessary.

I’m happy for TDK to be No 1 ruck and Pitto sub as insurance. I can see how we play when he’s hot and firing as sole ruck. I also know how our structure is ruined if TDK as our sole ruck is off the ground injured for most if not remainder of the game. We all agree we were lucky he returned to the field and played 2nd half because we all felt our vulnerability when he was off. Let’s see if he plays as the sole ruck next week. He is human. His Purple patch was just that imo. If you thought his purple patch was going to last forever at his young age you would buy fools gold for gold too.

Harry went into ruck and his opponent Comden went to forwardline and kicked 3 goals. It was pointed out before he kicked a goal our backline couldn’t match their height ie mismatch. Weitering was on his own. Durdin was not a reliable second fiddle.

Was it not obvious when TDK went off that North ran away from us on the scoreboard? If not, you weren’t watching. Go watch the replay and listen to commentators. They weren’t BT Brayshaw or Richo. Or better still check the scoreboard ticking over for North. Too obvious to miss.

We miss the stature of jones as a KPD. Gov and Kemp are not KPDs as much as you want to believe they are.

We have to wait for Finals to see if Voss goes with 2 rucks or not. I don’t know. But I can see why he would. Can you?

All I have said all along is we play well with sole ruck but if we lose that ruck during the game we are vulnerable and haven’t got the KPDs to withstand the onslaught to come. See against bottom 2 team today. Repeat 17th on the ladder and you think a top 4 wouldn’t do better than them in the same situation?

I’ll add, Saad has now developed as a trusted defender. He seems to have not only controlled his erratic running and kicking but more importantly, has worked is ass off on 1v1 defending. So bloody happy with what is now - the Navy Blue Saad.

What was TDK's injury? I was listening to SEN & the only injury they commented on for the whole game was Harry's head knock

Highlight was that Saad breakaway in Q3, was absolutely electric & brought the crowd into the game. Absolute gun & the rest of his game was pretty good too.

Thought TDK was also great in Q3, although the north ruckman is a good player too. Good battle.

Credit to Cotters, worked his way into the game after a slow start.

Thought Ollie had a weird day, some awesome defensive efforts but also some big time obvious mistakes. Should have taken a bounce & run that goal in, in Q4.

And fair play to North, thought they played really well especially their midfield. They gave us a couple of easy goals which we could have been in real trouble without.

Annoying about the short break for port but I hope it isn't even mentioned inside the club. I'd rather Voss absolutely demands we completely dick this mob on Friday. They may have a good midfield but they have serious deficiencies front & back. It's time for us to start concentrating & playing brutal footy over 4 qtrs again, pronto. We need to force our way out of this slump - we're better than this.

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I'll reiterate: we would be reigning premiers if Owies had played prelim. v Brisbane.

How you leave out the third highest goal scorer for the year still does my effing head in.

When we were wasting forward entries in that 1st quarter he would have drifted into space to capitalise.

Absolutely essential inclusion in our forward line - yesterday proved it again.

3rd highest scorer for Carlton again this year.

Oh, and kicks straight: 26-11

(and only 2 goals less than Lions 'essentials' Charlie Cameron and Eric Hipwood)

Voss says it was because we played too fast. That makes sense. We were fueling the open game which they wanted. When we got it slowed to our desired pace there was less outnumbering in their favour and our defensive shape was able to hold better. That made it easier to apply the pressure we needed to apply .Then it became a tough arm wrestle where we could use our strengths to overpower them and take the 4pts.

Yes. All damn season. What have they got against him?